The climate crisis is a systemic challenge, driven by the way our societies and economies operate. Because it affects everything from food and finance to law, media and energy, solving it requires systems thinking rather than isolated solutions.
Universities provide deep expertise in individual disciplines, but often leave little room for the bigger picture.
The Climate Academy complements your studies with a 360° perspective on the interconnected challenges of the climate crisis, offering an engaging scientific and cultural framework to help you understand the systems shaping our future.
Can we really call our students educated if they do not understand the depth and range of the crisis?
We need to move on from the broken, fragmented environmental education that is standard around the world. Young people should be given the full picture through a systems-informed approach. Why do we teach them complex and advanced material in the classroom but then rarely advance their understanding about the environment beyond simple clichés about recycling, reducing plastics or waste.
The Climate Academy offers an exciting systems level vantage point. Empowered by this perspective, the students are then challenged and motivated to develop their talents and skills in their communities. Mindful of leverage points, they can be real agents of change.
THE 3 PILLARS →
The Climate Academy offers a profound 16-chapter course book and YouTube video series for free. It is loaded with the latest science, cultural and historical details, and written with a philosophical narrative. It opens up the crisis to a systems level in an engaging and provocative way.
After establishing a secure understanding, The Climate Academy mobilises university students into the civic space at a local, national or global level. This Civic Engagement can be through Publications or Events. You can either use certified projects or craft your own. They can either be on or off campus.
The Climate Academy offers a powerful set of Open Badge certificates for each step of learning achieved in the programme. These certificates allow the learner to test, grow, spread and show their understanding. There are badges for Systems Understanding (Pillar 1), Publications and Events (Pillar 2). The 3 tiers of badges, Bronze, Silver and Gold, recognise the different levels of impact. The highest achievement is for Systems Entrepreneurs (Pillar 3).
The best learning and experiences are collaborative. As the network of Academies grows worldwide, there are so many opportunities to link-up, inspire and strengthen each other.
OUR COMMUNITY →
Everyone has busy lives. We know how many things people have to juggle. How many pulls there are on your attention. That is why we have made our programme highly adaptable and easy to use. If there isn’t a Climate Academy at your university now, why not set one up with a few friends? Meet at lunch or after lectures, an evening or in the weekend? You decide your best set up & we provide all the resources you need for free.
The Climate Academy has been written in extensive consultation with scientists and experts. We have made all our deep and wide-ranging resources freely available because we are committed to the public understanding of science and culture and to public wealth. You can check out the Free Student Book and the YouTube video series for each chapter.... and much more... The programme provides a 360° view of the crisis. It explores Earth Systems, and all the human systems that depend on them, from the economic to the political and social. It pulls together everything, from physics to psychology, and from fossil fuels to Freud.
Responsible AI bot (probably on two lines – “Responsible // AI bot”) In collaboration with experts at “Semantic Climate”, The Climate Academy is developing a reliable AI bot that is only plugged into the most reliable science and data on sustainability. Not trawling an internet that is full of misinformation and half-information also means that the carbon cost of each search is kept minimally low.
Join the community of game changers. The climate crisis needs reframing as a systems problem and needs systems informed agents of change. You can start today, by getting yourself informed with the latest science and who knows what that will lead to…
