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While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) regularly sounds the alarm, international processes aimed at containing global warming have failed to make any headway. Some governments, such as the United Kingdom and Canada, have recently declared a climate emergency, but so far they have failed to take any action.  \nStudents around the world, meanwhile, are walking out of classes and taking to the streets to demand climate action and justice. Movements such as Extinction Rebellion have resorted to civil disobedience, demanding political change by blocking bridges and roads. So what is actually happening?  \nThe seriousness of the situation can be summed up in simple facts: 18 of the past  \n19 years have been the hottest on record worldwide. According to experts, the sixth mass extinction is well underway, and the danger of runaway climate change can no longer be discounted.  \nFaced with this enormous and unprecedented challenge, humanity has no other choice but to radically change its development model to bring about a low-carbon transition. To that end, some solutions are known, while others still need to be developed. But one thing is certain: the collective effort needed in this situation requires nothing less than a revolution of the heart, of the mind – and urgent action. Consequently, rethinking education must be part of the solution too. The ability of education to inspire, engage and empower people as well as inform people of the climate emergency, including its causes and impacts, are clearly acknowledged in international climate agreements.  \nHowever, this recognition must be translated into action plans and policies: we must ensure that climate change education is incorporated into school curricula, teaching and learning materials, and teacher training.  \nTeachers are change agents and can be at the forefront of the fight against climate change but they have to have the means to do so. This guide aims to provide EI member organisations with a tool for exploring the principal questions, issues and challenges arising from the climate crisis and how unions can respond.  \n2  \n1. Climate change: the basics  \n“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change”  \nBarack Obama  \nNot a month goes by without an extreme weather event: Increasingly frequent and intense cyclones, storms, droughts, heatwaves and floods demonstrate that a large-scale disruption is occurring before our very eyes. According to the IPCC, the planet’s average temperature was 1.0o C higher in 2018 than it was in 1880, the year records began.  \nIt is now clear that the industrial era has profoundly altered our planet’s climate. Whether it is the increase in air temperature on the ground and in the lower atmospheric layer, the ocean heat content and the warming of the sea surface, the reduction in snow and ice cover, or the rise in sea levels worldwide, all of  \nthese indicators point in the same direction: ongoing and accelerated climate change.  \nIn climatology, a concept known as “radiative forcing”allows us to measure this change. According to the IPCC, this term describes the balance between the incoming solar rays and the outgoing infrared rays in the Earth-atmosphere system. A positive radiative forcing means that the Earth receives more energy in the form of heat than it emits. This is the situation that we have found ourselves in for several decades now.  \nImportantly, not all of the world’s regions and countries are affected in the same way. There are significant disparities – and these often  \nreflect the current unequal sharing of resources: many low-income countries are paying the highest price for a characteristic of these changes. 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