ECO2 COP29 Schools Climate Conference
ECO2 COP29 Schools Climate Conference
COP is a United Nations Climate Conference that takes place every year and is attended by 197 countries. Representatives share knowledge, set climate targets and review progress against previous climate targets.
Since COP26 was held in Glasgow, the ECO2 COP Schools Virtual Climate Conference has run alongside COP, giving children and young people a voice in the fight against climate change and a platform to learn from each other.
This year’s COP summit, COP29, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024. The ECO2 COP29 Schools Climate Conference ran alongside COP29 in November, providing the opportunity for 83 schools from 14 countries to come together to learn about climate change and climate action, and share their experiences.
This year’s ECO2 COP Schools Climate Conference involved schools from: County Durham and Wider UK; Azerbaijan; Egypt; France; Hungary; Germany; Greece; India; Italy; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Spain; United Arab Emirates. During the three interactive, online conferences, pupils were encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences of climate change, and had the opportunity to ask their climate change and climate solution questions to a panel of experts from different fields across Durham University and Durham County Council. Professor Chris Stokes also live-streamed in live from COP29 in Azerbaijan, giving the children and young people from around the world a flavour of the discussions and activities taking place.
Schools and pupils also made pledges of climate action for the year ahead, building on the pledges made by attendees in our three previous ECO2 Schools COP Climate Conferences.
ECO2 COP29 Schools Climate Conference
Ahead of the conferences, schools were encouraged to work through a set of bespoke, online educational resources (available to download below), focused on climate change, climate justice and climate finance. In addition to exploring the science of climate change, the schools were inspired to take climate action and create art, poems and posters about their thoughts, feelings and experiences. They were able to share their work and view other schools’ work on a shared drive for inspiration to take further climate action.
In total over 2000 pupils participated in the ECO2 COP29 Schools Climate Conference and pledged climate action.
“I would just like to thank you for the conference – it was fantastic and a wonderful and valuable experience for the children. The school’s Eco Team children will now present what they learnt at the conference to the rest of the school” – Teacher from Oak Houses Schools, Barcelona.
“Thank you for today and the lessons we received. The children have learned a huge amount about climate change and how to improve what we can do to reduce it” – Teacher from Byerley Park Primary, County Durham.
“Every drop in the ocean counts! Therefore, even though I may be only a young girl I will try my best to do whatever I can to prevent climate change” – Student from JNS School, Mumbai.
COP30 will take place in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. If you would like to express an interest in taking part in the ECO2 COP30 School Climate Conference please email [email protected].
ECO2 COP29 Climate Conference Resource
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