Aligned with World Environment Day 2026’s focus on climate change, the webinar shifts the conversations beyond signals and awareness of climate change towards concrete system-level climate action. The webinar will explore how the toolkit can be used to center educators’ voices and advance policy approaches that empower educators to sustain high-quality education in the face of climate disruptions and challenges. In this webinar, UNESCO will also highlight the critical role of translating climate commitments into meaningful climate action across education policies, schools and communities. 

The publication entitled Educators at the heart of greening education: A climate resilience toolkit for policymakers was developed jointly by the Global Partnership for Education, Education International and UNICEF in their capacity as co-coordinators of Working Group 3 of the Greening Education Partnership (GEP). The toolkit responds to this critical gap in education systems’ ability to support educators in advancing climate change and sustainability education. The toolkit aims to help ministries of education strengthen and reflect on policies that enable educators to deliver continuous, equitable and quality education even amid climate disruption. 

The GEP is rooted in the long standing work of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), with particular focus on education’s role to tackle climate change. UNESCO aims to equip individuals, communities, and the wider world with the understanding, skills, values and attitudes to engage in transformative action for shaping green, low emission and climate-resilient societies.