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Events – Silver

You are part of a team that organises an event featuring key concepts from The Climate Academy Student Book and figures from the CUTx Index.
 
Your involvement in the event could be:
  • Promotion (posters/social media/media/emails)
  • Speaking or performing
  • Event logistics (venue/security/registrations/health and safety/seating/equipment)
  • Contacting and liaising with guests/VIPs
  • Filming/interviewing/reporting (media and social media)
Examples of involvement 
Design an event poster. 
Interview the VIP guest
after the event 
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Examples of events
Evening Event

Invite an expert from a local university to speak about their expertise & around that core component, build an engaging event. 

It is vital to ensure that the event either implicitly or explicitly recognises the planetary boundaries and the limits to ‘growth’. It is also critical to ensure that issues of intersectional global justice are not sidelined. There should be at least one speaker from The Climate Academy who addresses these two fundamental framing issues.  
 
Examples of speakers who could be invited: 
Scientists 
On glaciers/sea level rise/polar regions 
On tipping points 
On the remaining carbon budgets 
.... on any expertise related to the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere... 
And on any cultural, social, psychological, political, or economic dimension of the crisis.... 
Politicians 
On the challenges of advancing effective policies against the power of lobby groups. 
On how AI might affect our trajectory towards different planetary boundaries
Non-profit organisations 
On biodiversity destruction and how to advance rewilding 
On how climate change will affect migration/immigration 
On the strength of public pressure & how to create and sustain it 
Cultural figures 
Authors, musicians, and artists who have addressed sustainability in their work.  
 
Biodiversity Event with George Monbiot at the EU Commission
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The Climate Academy in Brussels co-hosted an event with the author and public speaker, George Monbiot. The event was focused on biodiversity, hosted at the EU Commission and had an audience of around 500 policy experts. The students spoke about the importance of the CUTx Index and about their recent protest outside the Commission building. 
Climate Summit 
A full-day Climate Summit offers opportunities for students to have an immersive experience of learning. There are many possible features to include in the event: inviting VIP guest speakers to share the depth of knowledge and experience, setting up panels on engaging themes, running workshops, Q&As, music, and art. 
It also provides a stage for Climate Academy students to speak with clarity and insight from their own systemic understanding. 
Behind the scenes, there are all the skills of organisation and communication in the networking, publicity and follow-up. 
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Protest

The democratic right to protest is a powerful and important component of any open society. The Climate Academy was a leading voice in the protest movement started by Greta Thunberg back in 2018, which ended up mobilising millions of people around the world. Notice all the different skills and energies in play in this short film from one of the very first school climate protests. These skills include the organisation with local authorities, the media and the different local schools (... and the skill of filming  editing the video itself). 

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Street Art Festival

The Kalaghoda Art Festival in Mumbai provided a wonderful setting for the Climate Academy students and teachers from the VIGBYOR schools to design, create and exhibit their huge 3-D murals on climate tipping points and justice. The whole design process was a rich learning experience, and the impact of the exhibits was amazing, from the dialogues between the staff and students with the general public to the many handouts and QR codes that created engagement.   

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Deep Green Travel 
Take the bus or train and travel with your group to an exciting city, or go deep into nature. The travel could either have a very sharp purpose (an event, a film or writing project, street surveys, outreach to schools...) or none (just time as a group to be together).b 

Whatever the agenda, taking time away from the usual rhythms makes ‘resonance’ possible (see the section on Hartmut Rosa in Chapter 12).  Here is a window into some possibilities with Deep Green Travel.

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Chapter by Chapter Support
Not sure what theme to take for an event in school? Not sure what key question you could develop for a Climate Academy event in a public space or venue? Did you enjoy a particular chapter and want to do something with it, but aren't sure what... 
Here is a set of prompts, discussion topics, and key questions to help trigger your imagination. There is a set for each chapter of the Climate Academy Student book. 
These questions could help you identify a VIP guest or expert speaker you could invite. Or, if you were to be a speaker yourself, they could help you think through the different angles of your talk. 
Or maybe this set of questions prompts you to think of another kind of event, like an art exhibition, a street play, or a music concert with climate issues embedded into it. 
Once you have a sense of direction, the details of your event will probably start to take shape...
Open Certificate Support by Chapter

Last modified: Sunday, 7 June 2026, 11:43 PM