Climate &/or ocean education (literacy) at EGU2023

Please consider contributing to the #climate / #ocean #education and #geoethics sessions at the next EGU conference, in April ; Please also forward to

Session title:  Climate and ocean education: Geoethics, emergency, fossil fuels, war and more

The climate / ocean education session at the EGU brings together a wonderful group of warm hearts and creative minds from around the world, to present their ideas, practices and theories about helping people to better understand the changing climate and/or ; You do not need to be an expert, you do not need to have a PhD, you do not even need to have a diploma in geoscience or ; All you need is enthusiasm, a desire to help people learn and an activity or experience or idea that you would like to ; You may talk about the climate or the ocean separately without the other, or about both together.

You may contribute an oral presentation (in person or virtually) or a ; Any formal or informal work or activity that you are doing to help people learn about climate change (CC) and/or the ocean will be of ;

Here are some examples: a innovative lessons, a curriculum (, making CC or the ocean a central or compulsory element of a school or university curriculum), an advocacy action, an association, an expedition, research into CC or ocean education effectiveness, a survey of people’s views on CC education, participatory methods, debriefing, a piece of software or a game that helps people understand CC, NGO work, role-plays, personal action, community initiative, such as activism, a website, class research project, a change in national or local CC policy, a court case, making a movie, citizen science, communication, a school garden, geoparks, teamwork, food & cooking, publication, project work, giving talks, art, exchange programmes, running ; Indeed, any initiative that deepens people’s understanding of the ocean and/or of climate change will be welcomed.

All aspects of climate change and/or ocean are welcomed, such as causes and consequences, sustainability, policy, wealth gap and poverty, water security, floods, drought, food security & hunger, teacher development, denialism, corruption, greenwashing, fossil fuels, war, soil, biodiversity, natural resources, limits to growth, melting cryosphere, sea-level rise, water towers (mountains), alternative energies, gender issues, energy transition, climate literacy, water cycles, carbon cycle, reinforcing feedback loops, tipping points, planetary boundaries, migration & refugees, loss & damage, environmental law, agriculture, forest, finance, air & water pollution, energy, building, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, soil, … .

Look for our session at egu23 dot eu, in the section EOS