Climate Ambassadors

Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.

Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors

Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.

Build your estate's resilience against climate risk

Update your setting's processes to reflect climate adaptation across its operations. This will help ensure your setting continues to adapt and prepare for emergencies.

Update your Asset Management Plan (AMP) to manage climate-related risks

Updating your AMP to manage climate-related risks is essential for ensuring that your physical assets are well protected, secure and resilient to the impacts of climate change. This safeguards health and safety ensures cost effectiveness.

Low costRepeat action

Integrate your climate adaptation plan into your estate planning

Integrate your climate adaptation plan into your setting's long-term infrastructure and facilities management plans. You should highlight any climate risks identified, and set out your chosen adaptation measures into any relevant upgrade and renovation projects, building maintenance schedules, and landscaping decisions.

The goal is to ensure that your estate planning reflects the current and future needs of your setting.

Low costLong term action

Plan your investment in climate adaptation interventions

Use your climate adaptation plan and strategy to set out your setting’s allocation of resources and funding for climate adaptation interventions. The information found in your building condition survey may help you to build this picture and give an accurate indication of likely costs.

Low costLong term action

Secure long-term resource and budget to support climate adaptation

Once you have developed a Climate Adaptation Plan, you will need to secure additional resources and budget to enable its ongoing delivery.

Long term action