Italy Is the 1st Country Makes Climate Change A Compulsory Education for School Students

Sweden teen Greta Thunberg has sparked people all over the world to take measures over climate change. It seems Italy’s Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti gives a clear response in the new education policy as this 16 years old kid Greta has urged the world’s leaders from Europe to USA to begin putting resources to protect the world. More than enough, the awareness to avoid to harm the environment is much more better than to tackle things after the problem arising. Right, education plays an important role on it.

Climate Change As Compulsory Education From September 2020

From 2020, Italy’s school students need to study climate change compulsory after Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said all public schools must include 33 hours a year regarding the issues about climate change. It makes Italy becoming the first country to teach climate change as compulsory education at school in the whole world. The lessons will be built into existing civics classes from September 2020.

Education Direction For Future Need

The idea is that the citizens of the future need to be ready for the climate emergency. Progressively, the education direction will be jumped to subjects on geography, maths and physics. “There will be more attention to climate change when teaching those traditional subjects”, said by Vincenzo Cramarossa, Fioramonti’s spokesman. And the entire ministry is being changed to make sustainability and climate the center of the education model.