St Joseph’s School in Kerala equips students to monitor climate, helping the community adapt to weather changes and prevent floods.
- Awareness about climate change is growing exponentially among young children
- Environmental Science is now part of the curriculum in most schools
- How has one Kerala school gone further to equip students to deal with climate change?
- How is it teaching students to predict extreme climate events in their area?
Almost every school in India has Environmental Science as part of its curriculum. Small children now understand phrases like climate change and global warming. But sudden weather changes have become much too common now. We are experiencing extreme heatwaves, cyclonic storms and cloudbursts simultaneously in different parts of the country. What the future holds for our children is scary.
Roxy Mathew Koll, senior climate scientist at IIT-Madras and lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says: “Today’s children and those unborn will be exposed to far greater risks than most living adults.”