In your eco leader team, decide who will work with the student climate leaders.
Decide a time for meetings and how they will be structured.
Identify areas which need improvement. You may have ideas already.
Eco-Schools provides an audit tool called Count your Carbon.
Visit the climate action plan resources page for other resources.
Reduce carbon emissions by reducing energy use in the school, creating less waste across the school day, saving water, and promoting active travel.
Understand and plan for the risks to your setting from climate change and extreme weather events such as water and resource shortages, storms, flooding and heatwaves. Look at ways to share skills and resources.
Create habitats and spaces for nature in the school grounds, raise awareness of the importance of nature, get students outdoors, composting.
Incorporate climate issues into the curriculum, providing extra-curricular activities. Promote green careers, linking to local green career and training providers.
A climate action plan should cover actions that can be achieved during the year.
Be realistic with your target. If you want to improve the school’s insulation, have achievable goals like getting quotes for the work or looking for grants available.
Visit the East Sussex County Council website for the resources they offer to schools including East Sussex Climate Change Charter for Education Settings which provides advice and links to support a school climate action plan. They have also produced a Climate Change and Sustainability guide for governors and you can sign up to their forum for School Sustainability Leads.
https://czone.eastsussex.gov.uk/school-management/climate-change
If your school is part of an academy trust, find the support they can offer on their website or portal.
Publicise your achievements to staff, students and parents!
This helps keep up momentum for projects, could help to recruit more support and improve behavioural change amongst the school community.
Many students can be feeling eco-anxiety – knowing their school is doing something can help this and they may want to join in.
View our Climate Action Plan template with examples to help with action ideas. It is recommended to choose 6 actions to work on through a school year.
This is a resource of shared ideas, please get in touch if you would like to add action ideas to this template or suggest changes.
