Education and Climate Change: From Immediate Impacts to System Transformation

Harvard HGSE

Climate change is reshaping education systems worldwide, closing schools, damaging infrastructure, disrupting learning, and deepening inequality. At the same time, education can shape climate trajectories by strengthening climate literacy, supporting adaptation, enabling mitigation, and accelerating a transition to more sustainable and just ways of life. This course examines these two-way dynamics through a systems perspective that distinguishes first-order impacts of climate change on…