Climate education experience at University of Latvia

Indra Karapetjana; Maris Klavins

doi:10.1108/978-1-80382-911-120221008

Climate education experience at University of Latvia

Indra Karapetjana^*
, Maris Klavins

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Environmental Science

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Abstract

The chapter highlights the necessity to develop interventions for the mitigation of climate change (CC) and to provide CC education as one of the cornerstones of climate action. Although a mandatory environmental protection course has been included in all study programmes of higher education institutions in Latvia, they have considerable autonomy in implementing CC education content across the curriculum. It is important that training programmes on CC are designed considering the target groups' background knowledge and labour market needs due to the highly interdisciplinary content, rapidly changing concepts and emerging new terminology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Academic Language of Climate Change
Subtitle of host publication	An Introduction for Students and Non-native Speakers
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Pages	51-56
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781803829111
ISBN (Print)	9781803829128
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-911-120221008
Publication status	Published - 16 Sept 2022

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action

OECD Field of Science

1.5 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Keywords

Climate change education
Curriculum
Mitigation
Terminology
Training
University

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