educcate global
London
At COP 24 in Katowice, Poland [November 2018] Harwood Education and UNITAR held
a joint press conference to announce a non-financial agreement that would allow
Harwood Education to access 5 of UNITAR’s climate change trainings, adapt them
for and offer them to teachers for free.These courses still form the
foundational training within our Bronze Award. Harwood Education, covered the
costs of the video editing, voice overs and supporting documentation, marketing
and social media and invested to create a joint portal that could handle the
volume of teachers who wanted to take the teacher training. eduCCate Global was
launched on Earth Day, April 22, 2019. By the end of that year, 329K teachers in
43 countries had taken and completed the first Climate Change Teacher Training
in the world. In November 2019, Melanie Harwood was invited to speak at The
Climate Change in Education Conference in Dubai. It was also an opportunity to
visit a school there where every teacher was a Certified Climate Change Teacher
and to meet key stakeholders in education in the Middle East region. Insert
video of Mel speaking at the conference Melanie was joined on this trip to the
UAE by The Guardian Visual Feature Team and the Leadership Team (Education) from
Hammersmith & Fulham Council, United Kingdom to visit a school in Dubai and a UK
Delegation of Education Leaders. Here’s that coverage.
