Carbon literacy should be on the national curriculum, says North East academic

CLIMATE crisis means people are increasingly keen to learn how they can personally help – and it’s time for the Government to tap into that and create a national education programme.

That’s the view of a North East academic who has just finished researching people’s attitudes to being taught about their environmental impact, and how their small individual choices can lead to major climate benefits.

It’s a concept known as ‘carbon literacy’.

Climate Post went along to speak to university tutor Kris Woods…