Climate change is threatening education financing: We are launching a joint effort to identify trends and solutionse
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Save the Children, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and other partners are teaming up to better understand and further the global discourse around the relationship between climate change and education financing, and advocate for education to be seen as a key part of the solution.
The climate crisis is threatening every aspect of development, including education, across many lower-income countries.
The average number of disasters caused by natural hazards—including heatwaves, floods, droughts and tropical storms—has increased in the last 20 years from 200 to over 400 a year, an increase predicted to rise further by 320% in the next 20 years. A child born in 2020 will face up to 7 times more extreme weather events than their grandparents throughout their lifetime.
Unfortunately, the intersection of climate change and education financing, which could have significant implications for the future, is not well understood today.
Data-backed evidence on the effect of climate change on education outcomes/financing and vice versa is limited today. But given the rapidly increasing pressures on governments in lower-income countries to adapt to and mitigate climate change, there is an imperative to understand the effects of climate change on education financing and identify innovations and good practice to finance climate-smart education systems.
As a first step to better understand this relationship we worked with Dalberg to produce a literature review of the current research and map out the available data. Read More…
