Climate Safe Schools.
Helping schools build climate literacy, student leadership, and practical environmental action.
Climate Safe Schools is a CCAIE initiative that supports schools to establish Climate Clubs, strengthen climate literacy, and engage students in practical climate and environmental activities.
Through teacher support, student-led clubs, learning materials, and school-based activities, the initiative helps young people understand climate change and take informed action within their schools and communities.
Building climate awareness where learning begins.
Climate change is not only a global issue. It is already affecting how communities live, learn, grow food, manage water, handle waste, and prepare for environmental risks.
Schools are one of the best places to begin building climate awareness. When students understand climate change early, they are better prepared to think critically, act responsibly, and contribute to solutions in their communities.
Climate Safe Schools helps schools create simple, practical structures for climate learning through student Climate Clubs, teacher guidance, and accessible learning materials.
What is Climate Safe Schools?
Climate Safe Schools is a CCAIE programme that works with schools to build climate literacy, support teachers, and create student-led Climate Clubs focused on practical, school-based environmental action.
The initiative is rooted in the belief that climate education must be practical, local, and accessible — and that schools are well placed to lead this work in their communities.
Climate literacy
Student-led clubs
Teacher support
Practical action
Climate education should be practical, local, and accessible.
Practical
Students learn through doing — clean-ups, planting, debates, and pledges — not just reading.
Local
Activities respond to what's actually happening in students' communities — flooding, heat, waste, water.
Accessible
Materials are simple enough for any school to use, regardless of budget or prior climate exposure.
What Climate Safe Schools aims to do.
Establish Climate Clubs
Launch student-led Climate Clubs in selected pilot schools as the structure for ongoing learning and action.
Strengthen climate literacy
Equip students with accurate, age-appropriate knowledge of climate change and its local impacts.
Support teachers
Position teachers as climate literacy champions with guidance, materials, and facilitation tools.
Promote practical action
Encourage simple, achievable climate and environmental activities rooted in the school and community.
Build student leadership
Create space for students to lead, organise, and speak on climate issues that affect them.
Generate evidence to scale
Document learning from the pilot to refine the model and reach more schools over time.
What is a Climate Club?
Climate Clubs are school-based student groups focused on climate literacy, environmental awareness, and practical action. They give students a regular, structured space to learn, organise, and take meaningful action together — guided by a teacher focal person.
Activities Climate Clubs might run
From interest to a working Climate Club.
- STEP 01
Express interest
Schools submit a short expression of interest.
- STEP 02
Review & shortlist
CCAIE reviews submissions and shortlists participating schools.
- STEP 03
Assign focal teacher
Each school names a teacher focal person to lead the Club.
- STEP 04
Launch Climate Club
Students form the Club and begin practical climate activities.
- STEP 05
Share & sustain
Schools share updates and continue activities beyond the pilot.
From CCAIE's side
- Climate Club Starter Guide
- Teacher facilitation materials
- Student activity resources
- Digital climate literacy materials
- Orientation sessions
- School activity templates
- Reporting tools
- Visibility for participating schools
- Limited technical support for Climate Club setup
- Printed materials where funding allows
From the school's side
- Assign a teacher focal person
- Support the establishment of a student Climate Club
- Allow students to participate in approved Climate Club activities
- Provide basic school leadership support
- Follow internal school rules and safeguarding requirements
- Communicate with CCAIE on progress and challenges
- Share simple updates, photos, or activity reports where appropriate
- Encourage continuity beyond the pilot phase
Climate Safe Schools Kit — practical resources for learning and action.
A growing set of student, teacher, and Club materials designed to be simple, age-appropriate, and ready to use in any participating school.
Who can participate?
Eligible schools and representatives include:
- Teachers
- Principals
- Vice principals
- School administrators
- Club coordinators
- Authorized school representatives
Schools that previously participated in CCAIE teacher training programmes are especially encouraged to express interest.
A focused first phase.
The first phase focuses on identifying interested schools, selecting pilot participants, establishing Climate Clubs, and testing simple climate literacy materials. Learning from the pilot will shape how the programme grows.
Express your school's interest.
Is your school interested in establishing a Climate Club?
CCAIE is currently receiving Expressions of Interest from schools and teacher representatives who would like to participate in the Climate Safe Schools pilot. By submitting the form, your school confirms its interest in being considered for the pilot phase. If selected, your school will be invited to work with CCAIE toward establishing a Climate Club and supporting climate literacy activities for students.
Please note: Submitting this form does not automatically confirm selection. CCAIE will review all submissions and contact selected schools or teacher representatives with next steps.
From Rising Voices to Climate Safe Schools.
- Earlier
Rising Voices begins
CCAIE's youth-focused climate education and engagement work — Rising Voices — trained students and teachers, hosted climate conversations, and built early school-based climate awareness.
- Lessons
What we learned
Schools are powerful entry points for climate literacy. Teachers want structured materials. Students respond to practical, hands-on activities — not lectures.
- Today
From Rising Voices to Climate Safe Schools
Those lessons shape Climate Safe Schools: a more structured, Club-based model designed to be repeatable, school-led, and continuous beyond a single event.
Foundation
Teachers
Engaged through CCAIE training and climate education work
Foundation
Students
Reached through Rising Voices learning and engagement activities
Foundation
Schools
Connected to CCAIE climate learning to date
Verified impact figures are published on the CCAIE Impact page.
Support Climate Safe Schools.
Climate Safe Schools grows with the support of partners, donors, and institutions who believe in equipping young people with the literacy, tools, and leadership to act on climate.
Partner with us to expand reach, fund Club kits, support teacher orientation, or sponsor a cohort of schools. Every contribution turns directly into learning and action inside classrooms.
Sponsor a school cohort
Fund Climate Club kits
Support teacher orientation
Co-design with CCAIE