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A piece about new data and evidence on climate-resilient education, written as a collaboration between What Works Hub for Global Education partners the Blavatnik School, UNICEF, FCDO and UNESCO. Throughout 2024, at least 242 million students worldwide (1 in 7) experienced school disruptions due to extreme climate events. Many experienced multiple disruptions across the year – in the Philippines, for example, schooling was disrupted by floods in January, heatwaves in April and typhoons in November. The blog considers what works to enable more resilient education delivery during disruption.

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Paper showing that additional schooling leads people to behave and vote in more climate-friendly ways

A paper by Noam Angrist and colleagues in the Review of Economics and Statistics (MIT) estimates how far additional years of schooling influence individual behaviour change and voting preferences around climate change. The authors show that an extra year of education substantially increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviours, and policy preferences.
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