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the other elements of Climate Action
in Language Education will help to
facilitate more sharing.
3) Actions were often ‘de-centred’. Some RIZKI YULIAN ON UNSPLASH
of the most exciting projects were in
non-English medium countries, many
in developing economies.

Looking stakeholder by stakeholder, we
found that among the publishers there seems
to be clear progress on carbon footprint
reduction in terms of how they produce
and distribute books. However, the idea of
climate change issues being embedded into
course books (rather than in just one unit)
is still only beginning to be embraced.
Among teachers, there is increasing
integration of climate issues into classes,
although this is not universally the case
and teachers mention needing professional you can do to reduce your footprint and
development around integrating of topics. bring climate education into your teaching. Christopher Graham
Students specified that they would You just need to try and to share. holds a degree in Politics
welcome climate topics being included in from Warwick University,
their ELT classes. Interestingly however, Footnote a Cambridge DELTA and
there is significant student anxiety around Free training modules on climate action will is a Fellow of the Royal
the climate crisis demonstrated by the run throughout the year. Visit the following; Society of Arts. He is an ELT
words they use to describe their feelings. consultant and writer, and has worked in
These include ‘worried’, ‘scared’, ‘sad’ and n Training https://www.teachingenglish.org. the field since 1981 in over 30 countries for
‘ignorance’. This has implications for how uk/training the British Council, ministries of education
teachers and course book writers approach n Podcast https://www.teachingenglish.org. and publishers. One of the founders of ELT
climate-related issues. The report will be uk/professional-development/podcast Footprint, a 2020 ELTons winner, he is
available from late August at https://www. n Lesson plans https://www.teachingenglish. currently working for the British Council on
britishcouncil.org/climate-connection, but org.uk/article/climate-action-language- the Climate Action in Language Education
you don’t need to read it to consider what education-lesson-plans project as a researcher and author.

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