Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.
Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.
Engage with national agencies to improve your climate hazard planning
What is a climate hazard?
The Earth is warming, rainfall patterns are changing, and sea levels are rising. These changes increase the likelihood of heat stress, flooding, extreme cold, and other weather events, which are known as climate hazards.
Why is this important?
With climate change increasingly affecting local weather patterns, educational settings face new challenges in ensuring the safety and preparedness of their communities. Risks such as flooding, extreme heat, and storms can disrupt daily operations and place learners, staff, and resources at risk.
How can national agencies help?
As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, educational settings must prioritise safety, preparedness, and environmental responsibility. National agencies provide critical support to help settings protect their communities and promote climate resilience through a collaborative approach.
National agencies offer essential knowledge and tools to manage these climate risks effectively. They can help education settings to align their efforts with national climate goals, and educate learners about environmental stewardship and resilience.
By engaging with these agencies, settings can improve the data used to evaluate climate hazards, improving the accuracy of your climate risk assessment process, which will allow settings to better plan and mitigate risks, and improve their climate resilience.
National agencies that can help
- The Environment Agency (EA) provides free resources on risk management, and tools for understanding and assessing climate hazards in your local area.
- The Met Office provides valuable maps, data and forecasts that will help you to identify the most significant climate hazards to your setting.
- DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) offers valuable resources, support, and guidance to identify climate hazards, such as flooding.
- The Department for Education (DfE) can provide support and professional development for educators to better prepare staff in planning and responding to climate events.