The World Climate School, chaired by a team consisting of Inger-Mette Stenseth, Hans Joergen Rasmussen and Rob de Laet, was established in the wake of the Pandemic of Spring 2020. Formally established 26 September 2020 in Molde, Norway, the association has expanded and had an exponential outreach with strategic partnership with diverse networks dedicated to sustainable development goals with sharp focus and commitment to address climate challenge in a new way: - pragmatic and constructive action in partnership with teachers on the ground. World Climate Schools`s activities are now operating in many new countries, including chapters in several stages of development in Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Zimbabwe and the USA, as well as connections with similar education and action projects in countries like Egypt, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Rwanda, Malawi. Brazil has a special focus, with Rob de Laet working with Indigenous leaders and others, to avert the dieback of the Amazon rainforest. The focus of WCS has decidedly moved in this direction:
Climate Education => Climate Literacy => Climate Action! During the first years our shared vision has moved in the direction of finding solutions through restoring the hydrological cycle through landscape regeneration, reforestation and increasing integrated forms of agroforestry food production and the improvement of damaged soils and climate-smart landscape design. We also teach the Doughnut Economics model, the Drawdown project list of solutions and a regenerative economic model including circular production and consumption, addressed as the pragmatic and ethical approach of engagement on stakeholders of private-public and 3rd Sector of NGOs and Volunteers. All these elements together are directly or indirectly connected to all of the SDGs. Benchmarks and partnership with dedicated practitioners, researchers and scientists in the field of reforestation, nature protection, agroforestry projects are guided and stimulated, integrating in the local ecosystem of stakeholders, with teachers being the backbones for social innovation and collective entrepreneurship. World Climate School
Storgata 4
6425 Molde
Norway
