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The article examines UN-produced documents from 2010–2022 for future-focused statements on climate justice education policy, highlighting emerging international frameworks and Australia’s signatory status. 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Inaction has its roots in Australian politics reluctant to engage with scientific evidence or community experience of extreme weather events and hamstrung by the political interference of carbon dealing mega-corporations cashing in on a profit-making bonanza. Adult educators have a substantial role to play in addressing the climate crisis and there is value in considering the international sphere for policy guidance. We conducted a descriptive, desktop content analysis of documents produced under the auspices of the United Nations from 2010 to 2022 searching for future-focussed statements on climate justice education policy. International frameworks and conventions hold concrete possibilities for imaging transformative practices. There are increasing levels of detail in frameworks supportive of climate change education internationally, and Australia is a signatory. Our work contributes towards the argument that Australia needs to develop national and  \nGesturing not acting: Searching for policy guidance for Australian climate educators 377  \nstate policy settings for climate justice education in line with United Nations settings.  \nKeywords: climate justice, adult educators, climate change education policy, Australia, United Nations, UNESCO  \nClimate worry in the Australian context  \nAustralia as a nation is not doing well in terms of enacting a national approach to climate change education, neither for primary, secondary or tertiary education nor for the informal and community adult education sectors. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, promoting adult learning for this existential crisis is urgent. According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM, 2022) Australia’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.47 ± 0.24 °C since national records began in 1910. People and ecosystems are experiencing an acceleration of extreme weather events, and a significant majority of Australian adults are frustrated by decades of inaction on the part of local, state and Federal governments.  \nAbout 80% of adults surveyed in 2020, stated they desired greater climate action by State and Federal governments, including the phasing out of coal fired power stations and decreasing reliance on fossil gas (see Colvin 2020; Quick & Bennet 2020) . Similar desires were expressed in Griffith University’s Climate Action Survey (Bradley et al. 2022) that showed 77% of Australian adults accepted the reality of climate change and only 2% could be categorised as deniers. A further 16% of adults were identified as unconvinced or complacent, and 5% were sceptical. Unsurprisingly, women reported greater levels of concern than men and higher levels of climate knowledge, concern and action were reported by adults under 35 years of age.  \nThe cascading faults for inaction lie within Australian politics deliberately divorced from scientific understandings, and subject to interference from the carbon dealing mega-corporations cashing in on the biggest profit-making bonanza in history. Australian taxpayers contribute to the destabilisation of the global atmosphere through annual subsidies to fossil fuel industries-an estimated 11.6 billion dollars in the 2021-2022 financial year (Armistead et al. 2022. There  \n378 Hilary Whitehouse and Annette Gough  \nare no concrete plans to cease this economic behaviour (Denniss 2022), although the Australian Climate Council’s Power Up roadmap (Dean et al. 2022) states that ending taxpayer subsidies would be a “gamechanger” for the nation. While billions of dollars are spent accelerating carbon pollution, Australia does not invest high","cbCaigYShQMwKlI7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigYShQMwKlI7","pdf",214616,"English","# Climate worry in the Australian context\n# Gesturing towards national policy","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article argue Australia lacks effective climate education policy?\",\"answer\":\"It attributes gaps to domestic political inaction and interference, alongside limited investment in education, including climate and sustainability learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What method did the authors use to study climate justice education policy?\",\"answer\":\"They conducted a descriptive desktop content analysis of UN-produced documents from 2010 to 2022, searching for future-focused climate justice education policy statements.\"},{\"question\":\"How do international frameworks affect the paper’s conclusions about Australia?\",\"answer\":\"The paper notes increasing detail in international frameworks supporting climate education and argues Australia should develop national policy settings aligned with UN approaches to climate justice.\"}]","Gesturing not acting - Searching for policy guidance for Australian climate educators | PDF",1792076659,48]