Let’s Go Zero is a campaign to help schools to take action on climate change. They’ve got almost three thousand schools to use their collective voice to lobby the government for change, with schools joining a target to reach net zero by 2030.
In the last few months they have been expanding their work to support schools more directly, hiring a network of school climate action advisors across England. Another dozen started this week, and I was among them. I will be a climate advisor in the east of England and London team, with what looks like an extensive programme of training coming up in the next few weeks.
I’ll be working with schools three days a week, with two for author business and the long list of other things I’m involved in. In part it’s a continuation of the work I’ve been doing for the last few months around Luton, and which I wrote about last year. The Let’s Go Zero model is different to the one we developed locally, but responding to the same need.
The government has suggested that all schools should have a climate action plan, without specifying what that is or providing any resources or training to get them there. Everyone knows that schools need support, and that schools are a really good place to embed our response to climate change in communities. So it’s a good time to step things up in the education sector. Let’s Go Zero are expanding at an opportune moment, run by Ashden Climate Solutions (they of the awards I’ve written about a few times in the past).
This line of work isn’t entirely new to me, but it does feel like a new chapter of sorts to be committing my time to it. I’m looking forward to it, and I will let you know how it goes.
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