At EARTHDAY.ORG, we recognize the critical role education plays in empowering communities to tackle the climate crisis. To support global efforts for climate action, we’ve developed the Climate Education NDCs Tracker below. It is a comprehensive tool to monitor the inclusion of climate education in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted by countries under the Paris Agreement.
This tracker provides an up-to-date overview of how countries prioritize climate education in their NDCs. It evaluates the extent and quality of education-related commitments, such as incorporating climate education into formal curricula, supporting teacher training, engaging local communities, and fostering youth leadership.
Explicitly mentions a detailed plan to integrate climate education and the curriculum for both formal and non-formal educational settings.
Country
Category
Link
Quick Facts
What NDC is this? (First, second, updated)
Angola
Category 1
Climate education in Angola centers on capacity building by training public service and ministry officers in climate change, with a particular emphasis on equipping teachers and educators. This initiative also integrates climate change content into both school and university curricula to ensure comprehensive, systemic learning. "Acknowledging the pivotal role of education in effective climate action, Angola is dedicated to bolstering the necessary skills, knowledge, and institutional frameworks for fostering long-term resilience."
3rd
Antigua and Barbuda
Category 1
By 2027, all students from primary through tertiary levels will have access to climate education. The UNFCCC Focal Point is developing a Youth Engagement Strategy and Action Plan to involve children and youth—including the most vulnerable—in climate action.
Updated(1st)
Argentina
Category 1
Argentina’s NDC highlights legislative efforts to embed environmental education across both formal and non-formal settings, recognizing its role in fostering a sustainable culture. It also calls for enhanced teacher training and greater youth participation in planning processes, opting for the broader term “environmental education” rather than “climate education.”
Updated(2nd)
Australia
Category 1
Australia’s education system is preparing students with the skills needed for new industries and a climate resilient future, embedding climate change in the national curriculum and supporting pathways like the Key Apprenticeship Program. Equity is central to this transition, with initiatives empowering First Nations leadership, advancing gender equality in renewable energy, and ensuring historically excluded groups share in the benefits.
Updated(2nd)
Bahamas
Category 1
The Bahamas' NDC states that it will strengthen the delivery of climate change content throughout the education system. It also seeks to increase awareness of locally relevant topics such as coral reefs, mangrove forests, and meteorological information. In addition, it promotes public understanding of climate change impacts and the dissemination of adaptation practices.
2nd
Bangladish
Category 1
Bangladesh's NDC 3.0 will integrate climate education across curricula, promote green skills, and expand opportunities for decent work in mitigation activities under NDC 3.0, ensuring that the benefits of the low-carbon transition are equitably shared. By 2030, green skills are expected to be integrated into all education systems, with a particular emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). In line with NDC 3.0, Bangladesh will transform its education system to be climate-resilient, inclusive, and future-oriented by integrating climate education, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and green skills across all levels of formal and non-formal education.
3rd
Bolivia
Category 1
Bolivia’s NDC underscores the importance of education for raising awareness across the general population, affirming that both formal and non-formal environmental and climate education play a critical societal role.
3rd
Cambodia
Category 1
By 2035, Cambodia’s education system will embed climate change across all grade levels, supported by updated curricula, textbooks, and teacher training. Lifelong learning and vocational programs will build green skills, while over 2,000 schools will adopt national eco-school and safe school standards. Public awareness will expand through nationwide media campaigns, targeted training for key groups, and improved access to climate information via the NCSD portal. These commitments significantly strengthen the country’s NDC 2.0 by moving beyond primary education to a comprehensive, cross-sector approach that integrates climate resilience into formal, non-formal, and technical education systems.
3rd
Central African Republic*
Category 1
By 2025, basic notions of climate change will be integrated into primary and secondary school curricula. To support this, the plan includes capacity building for teacher training and the testing of climate change content.
Updated(1st)
Chad*
Category 1
Chad's NDC highlights that education is both directly impacted by climate change and crucial for achieving its goals. It lists several adaptation actions in the education sector, including promoting environmental clubs in schools, integrating climate adaptation into curricula and training programs, popularizing climate change–related books and guides, and adapting school calendars to reflect climate change.
Updated(1st)
Chile
Category 1
Chile’s updated NDC highlights education mainly through a commitment to establish a plan of articulation with educational institutions and by promoting capacity development and climate empowerment. It emphasizes public participation and inclusion of local and indigenous knowledge. Overall, education is framed more as structural support than as a specific curricular mandate.
3rd
China
Category 1
Climate change components have been integrated into formal education curricula and non-formal programs through the distribution of media and other outreach methods. Specialized training programs have been developed for officials and sector-specific roles, such as those working in the carbon market. Green and low-carbon development is set to be incorporated into the national education system. In some regions, like the Macao SAR, climate change education is already mandated at all levels, with government-provided guides to help schools integrate the content.
Updated(1st)
Colombia*
Category 1
Education, training, and awareness are identified as one of Colombia’s five key means for implementing its NDC, placing education at the forefront of its climate strategy. The NDC outlines plans to integrate climate education into both formal and non-formal settings, specifies that all grade levels—from Pre-K through university—must include climate change content by 2030, and acknowledges that such education and awareness-raising are essential to shifting public perceptions of climate change.
3rd
Costa Rica*
Category 1
Costa Rica’s NDC includes climate education within its Climate Empowerment section alongside other awareness-raising tools. It calls for revising primary and secondary school curricula to cover climate change, the green economy, and the just transition.
Updated(1st)
Dominica
Category 1
Dominica's NDC describes a draft framework to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into primary and secondary education curricula and notes that the Central Statistics Office has adopted Caribbean-specific SDGs focused on regionally relevant indicators. It also highlights the development of a database to track these indicators, including their definitions, rationales, stakeholders, progress levels, and reporting methods, and emphasizes community-level informal streams of climate education throughout the document.
Updated(1st)
Dominican Republic*
Category 1
Climate education appears under the Climate Empowerment section, one of the Dominican Republic’s seven main NDC implementation components. This section mandates interdisciplinary climate education across all grade levels in the formal system and extends it to non-formal settings. Education also features in the climate governance component, although there it is addressed only at the higher-education level.
Updated(1st)
Egypt
Category 1
Egypt's NDC directly mandates integrating climate change content into school and university curricula. It also calls for increased investment in climate projects through innovative partnerships among government, the private sector, development organizations, financial institutions, NGOs, and research and educational institutions. Additionally, it encourages youth participation in the green transition through skills training, research, innovation, and incentive programs.
Updated(1st)
El Salvador*
Category 1
El Salvador's NDC includes a review of curricula to incorporate climate change topics in areas such as agriculture and industry and encourages climate education at the technical level. It portrays climate education as a means to raise public awareness and support informed decision-making.
Updated(1st)
Equatorial Guinea*
Category 1
Equatorial Guinea's NDC includes estimated costs through 2050 for awareness-raising and education initiatives. It lists improving climate education at all levels as a priority adaptation action, covering both formal and non-formal streams. Informal channels—such as magazines, brochures, and environmental agendas—are also emphasized.
Updated(1st)
Eritrea
Category 1
Eritrea's NDC integrates climate-related topics into formal education at all levels. It also proposes expanding informal education streams for adults, through radio stations, TV broadcasts, documentary films, and the press, to augment youth awareness and prepare adults for climate risks.
1st
Gambia
Category 1
The Gambia is expanding access to secondary, higher, and tertiary education with an emphasis on climate change. A new primary/basic education curriculum now integrates environmental issues, including climate change, and training for teachers has already begun. The country plans to fully integrate climate change into all education curricula.
2nd
Georgia
Category 1
Georgia's NDC commits to providing climate change education for children and youth but offers no specific policies or implementation commitments.
Updated(1st)
Haiti*
Category 1
Haiti's NDC includes integrating climate change into the school curriculum, with detailed guidance to be provided in a forthcoming National Education Plan on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. It also identifies education as a key tool for achieving sector-specific targets.
2nd
Indonesia
Category 1
Indonesia's NDC calls for integrating climate education into the national education system as a means of capacity building but does not specify any concrete policies.
Updated(1st)
Jordan
Category 1
Jordan’s NDC commits to raising awareness and engaging communities, including children and youth, through both formal and informal education on climate change, the environment, and sustainable development. To support this, it is developing a unified entry-level curriculum that incorporates climate and environmental themes, accompanied by Jordan-specific materials to be distributed via social media, informal settlements, schools, youth centers, and innovation incubators.
Updated(1st)
Kazakhstan
Category 1
Kazakhstan's NDC discusses climate awareness and environmental literacy in detail, citing specific policies. It emphasizes general environmental education more than targeted climate education. The document identifies integrating environmental aspects into formal education as a primary task for the sector and includes measures to foster environmental culture and respect for the environment.
Updated(1st)
Kenya
Category 1
Kenya’s 2031–2035 NDC calls for mainstreaming climate adaptation throughout the education system and prioritizes integrating climate change into the national curriculum as a key program intervention. It also supports informal youth education through expanded training for green-sector jobs and the scaling up of youth-led climate initiatives, such as entrepreneurship and community projects.
2nd
Kyrgyzstan
Category 1
Kyrgyzstan’s NDC notes that the state of climate education has been assessed, priorities have been established, and pilot programs have been launched. NDC3.0 enshrines "climate literacy” as a cross cutting task: integrating climate topics into school and university curricula. They also mention integrating of climate education into the healthcare system and support for healthcare workers in responding to the impacts of climate change on health. The goal for Climate Education is to establish an effective climate education system, integrated into all levels of learning and incorporating gender equality, social inclusion, and just transition. They state that they will revise educational standards and professional programs to include climate change issues, create a legal basis for climate education, introduce innovative forms of training and internships, improve teacher qualifications, and reconstruct school infrastructure with climate risks in mind.
3rd
Lebanon
Category 1
Lebanon's NDC states that plan on integrating climate education and awareness through schools and community-based programs, climate-resilient school infrastructure, and school-based preparedness and disaster risk reduction plans, in line with national education strategies. Additional youth recommendations include integrating water sustainability into formal education curricula, enhancing long-term public awareness and aligning with the NDC’s cross-sectoral focus on capacity-building and environmental literacy.
3rd
Maldives
Category 1
The Maldives’ third NDC prioritizes climate education across formal and informal settings to strengthen critical thinking and resilience, and underscores the role of the private sector and international finance in achieving these goals. It commits to mainstreaming climate change content at all educational levels—including teacher training—and to bolstering academic and training institutions for research and instruction. The NDC also promotes access to information about green jobs and targets youth and young professionals with sector-specific opportunities. Finally, it discusses the expansion of climate research capacity through national centers and the conduction of locally relevant awareness campaigns that highlight the disproportionate impacts on vulnerable groups such as women, children, and youth.
3rd
Marshall Islands
Category 1
The Marshall Islands’ NDC underscores the necessity of integrating climate change education across its education sector. The updated third NDC also commits to achieving gender equality in education, emphasizing the importance of elevating women’s voices in crafting sustainable solutions.
3rd
Mauritania*
Category 1
Mauritania's NDC calls for improving the curriculum to address climate change issues and provides broad conditional financing for education. It also links education to employment, noting that stronger climate education could support a just transition.
Updated(1st)
Micronesia
Category 1
Micronesia's NDC includes the implementation of education programs covering both climate change and disaster risk management. It also commits to advancing education and capacity building by embedding climate curricula, vocational training, and community-based learning into national and state programs.
3rd
Mongolia
Category 1
Mongolia’s NDC commits to strengthening climate education, green skills, and public participation. It aims to integrate climate change into all levels of curricula, build a workforce with green skills, and expand public awareness and participation, especially among youth. Education and training will be prioritized in secondary, TVET, and tertiary institutions to ensure young people can contribute meaningfully to climate action.
3rd
Myanmar
Category 1
Myanmar’s NDC emphasizes investing in education to build a climate-responsive society and calls for international support to strengthen capacity across primary, secondary, and higher education. It recommends enhanced professional and teacher training to integrate sustainability, low-carbon development, and other climate topics into formal curricula at all levels, and encourages multi-stakeholder partnerships to foster this transformation.
Updated(1st)
Namibia
Category 1
Namibia’s NDC commits to integrating climate change into both formal and informal education systems by 2030 at an estimated cost of $30 million USD. It also calls for an aggressive awareness-raising program targeting the country’s most vulnerable groups.
Updated(1st)
Nauru
Category 1
Nauru’s NDC includes two education-sector commitments: conducting a general analysis of the education system to address systemic challenges such as truancy and illiteracy, and integrating climate change content into primary school curricula in collaboration with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). The government is also running public education campaigns to encourage energy-efficient behaviors.
Updated(1st)
Nepal
Category 1
Nepal’s NDC integrates climate change education across multiple curricula—including school, vocational, technical, and university levels—and ensures that local-level programs incorporate traditional and indigenous mitigation and adaptation knowledge. It also acknowledges the critical role of education, skills training, and accessible employment opportunities for youth in driving the green economy.
3rd
Nigeria
Category 1
Nigeria’s updated NDC highlights education as central to its climate strategy, with plans to integrate climate change into school curricula, expand teacher training, and strengthen both formal and community-based learning. It also emphasizes coordination across ministries and the development of training programs to support sustainable practices and circular economy pathways. Between 2015 and 2021, Nigeria mobilized nearly US$4.93 billion in climate finance to advance projects across sectors such as agriculture, energy, water, forestry, and education.
3rd
Pakistan
Category 1
Climate change content will be integrated into the curriculum of all secondary schools by 2030, with specialized climate courses offered at colleges and universities. The Ministry of Climate Change will also provide diverse pathways for youth to engage in climate action while promoting these education programs. Thus, integrating climate education, vocational training, and employment generation into national development and climate policies would be essential to converting the youth bulge into a driver of inclusive, low-carbon growth.
Updated(1st)
Qatar
Category 1
Eco school programs promote environmental education at the primary and secondary levels, including the integration of climate change content into the curriculum. The Ministry of Education has established a Sustainable Development Committee to oversee climate awareness integration across the education system, and comprehensive teacher training is provided to ensure quality climate education.
Updated(1st)
Republic of Moldova
Category 1
Moldova’s NDC 3.0 recognizes the need for an educated workforce in the green-economy transition, calling for vocational and sector-specific training alongside broader improvements to the public education system. It also establishes informal climate-education streams—staff training programs, incentive initiatives, and public awareness campaigns—and mandates the inclusion of adaptation and mitigation content in university curricula.
3rd
Saint Lucia
Category 1
Saint Lucia’s NDC prioritizes integrating climate change education into school curricula and emphasizes training educators so students are prepared to tackle climate challenges. It also references the country’s National Adaptation Plan, which outlines specific education-sector projects related to climate education.
3rd
Sao Tome and Principe
Category 1
Sao Tome and Principe's NDC states that they plan to integrate climate change education into school curricula (primary, secondary, vocational, university). The education sector requires digital tools, teaching materials and laboratories for training in green jobs and energy transition. But equally fundamental are the capacities of teachers and technical training centres, as well as the integration of climate education at all levels. The cost of developing teaching materials and training all teachers nationwide would be $3 million USD.
3rd
Seychelles
Category 1
The Seychelles plans to add marine education and blue-economy content to formal curricula and incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation topics into post-secondary institutions. It supports informal learning through peer-to-peer networks, local skills development, and professional development. The NDC also encourages climate change capacity building across diverse sectors such as faith groups, government entities, midwifery programs, and life-skills and family-life education.
3rd
Somalia
Category 1
Somalia’s NDC 3.0 integrates climate change into school curricula, with particular emphasis on gender equity and disability inclusion. It recognizes climate education and public awareness as a key pillar for strengthening societal resilience. The NDC also calls for bolstering the capacity of media outlets and local news organizations to disseminate early warning information and broader climate knowledge. Finally, it supports community-level awareness campaigns that promote sustainable behavior.
3rd
South Sudan
Category 1
Most references to climate education focus on raising awareness among the general public within specific sectors. South Sudan’s NDC prioritizes overcoming challenges in basic education access before committing to targeted climate‐education initiatives. However, it does acknowledge the importance of integrating climate change and environmental topics into school curricula.
2nd
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Category 1
St. Vincent and the Grenadines prioritizes public education and awareness building in its climate plan. This includes developing a national school curriculum that covers climate change and disaster risk reduction, implementing a three-year community resilience education program, and providing targeted technical training to support these efforts. Integrate gender-inclusive climate change components into technical education curricula to equip women and girls with innovative climate related knowledge.
1st (Updated)
Suriname
Category 1
Education is recognized as a foundational sector in Suriname’s NDC, underpinning the resilience of all other sectors. The NDC highlights education’s power as a tool for climate resilience, and calls for the development of educational programs and curricula to strengthen the training of environmental specialists.
2nd
Tajikistan
Category 1
Curricula for secondary schools, vocational schools, and higher education institutions will be updated to include climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Capacity-building programs will feature increased media coverage, civil servant training, the development of sectoral and regional plans, and the enhancement of educational and methodological materials.
Updated(1st)
Thailand
Category 1
Thailand's NDC mentions developing and implementing climate education in both formal and non-formal settings and highlights teacher training programs to support this effort.
Updated(2nd)
Tuvalu
Category 1
Tuvalu's NDC includes climate change education integration into school curricula at all levels, from primary to secondary education. Develop age-appropriate materials and teaching resources to raise awareness and promote climate-conscious behaviours among young people.
3rd
Uganda
Category 1
Uganda’s updated NDC elevates education to a priority sector and outlines key adaptation actions, including the promotion of climate change education and training—incorporating indigenous knowledge—through integration into national curricula at all levels, supported by a basic timeline. It also calls for improved general climate awareness, explicitly addressing gender inequalities in climate literacy, and references the National Climate Change Learning Strategy and Action Plan for further guidance on climate education.
Updated(1st)
United Arab Emirates
Category 1
The UAE has partnered with organizations like the International Renewable Energy Agency to integrate renewable energy systems and sustainable development into its education system and is working with UNICEF to train education officials on climate-related content. Together these partnerships will support the development of a curricular framework to provide students with essential climate knowledge. The NDC also highlights a comprehensive suite of informal climate-education initiatives—competitions, conferences, and collaborations—totaling 140 programs across 28 organizations, many of which specifically target youth.
3rd
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Category 1
The UK is rolling out a new climate science course for 16- to 18-year-olds and will launch a GCSE in Natural History by 2025. In April 2022, the Department for Education published its Strategy for Sustainability and Climate Change in Education and Children’s Services, which is slated for review and update in 2025 to better prepare youth for a sustainable future. Parts of the UK—namely Wales, Guernsey, and Gibraltar—have already integrated climate education into their school curricula.
2035
Uruguay*
Category 1
Uruguay’s NDC pledges to integrate climate education into formal curricula at all grade levels by 2030. It also commits to creating a national platform by that year to offer training and educational resources for climate learning. Additionally, the document highlights informal climate-education initiatives, including public sector trainings, workshops, and competitions.
3rd
Uzbekistan
Category 1
Uzbekistan's NDC briefly references integrating climate change into both secondary school and university curricula, but it provides no specifics on how or when this will be implemented.
Updated(1st)
Vanuatu
Category 1
Vanuatu will pilot environmental resilience programs in one model school per province and, by 2030, require 100% of schools to integrate climate risk management into their implementation plans—requiring US $950,000 in financing. The plan also commits to embedding sustainable development topics at the primary level and expanding broader public education initiatives.
3rd
Vatican City
Category 1
The Vatican’s NDC highlights education as a core pillar of its climate strategy. It commits to raising awareness and fostering “ecological citizenship” through programs for families, children, and employees as well as promoting sustainable lifestyles in their own publications. Education is framed as essential for fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement.
1st
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)*
Category 1
Venezuela’s NDC mandates climate education in both formal and non-formal settings, referencing existing laws that support its inclusion. It defines climate education, per a previously enacted Venezuelan law, as a means to foster long-term sustainable choices through behavioral change and dedicates a separate section to its role in universities.
Updated(1st)
Viet Nam
Category 1
Vietnam’s NDC expresses the intent to integrate climate change information and response into curricula at all education levels and notes that promoting climate change communication and education has encouraged positive lifestyle behaviors.
Updated(1st)
Zimbabwe
Category 1
Zimbabwe’s updated second NDC calls for enhanced integration of climate change into both basic and higher education levels. It also highlights education as a tool to address gender inequality in the development of climate solutions. In addition, the document includes public awareness campaigns and workshops on energy-efficient appliances, forest conservation, and fire management.
Mentions climate education and has programs in non-formal educational settings but no mention of integration into the curriculum
Country
Category
Link
Quick Facts
What NDC is this? (First, second, updated)
Albania
Category 2
Albania's NDC states the need for increased public awareness regarding climate change, but doesn't discuss climate education in formal school systems.
Updated(1st)
Algeria
Category 2
Algeria's NDC includes implementing a national climate change program that encompasses education, training, and research.
1st
Andorra*
Category 2
Andorra’s third NDC emphasizes that education will be integral to the social transition required to achieve climate solutions.
3rd
Belize
Category 2
Belize's NDC includes capacity-building and awareness-raising programs across a wide range of sectors, including waste, fisheries, aquaculture, water resources, and more. Additionally, the NDC includes promoting youth awareness of climate change as a cross-cutting action.
3rd
Botswana
Category 2
Botswana's NDC includes educating the public on the benefits of energy-saving mechanisms.
2nd
Brazil
Category 2
Brazil’s NDC commits to promoting environmental education and references its National Plan on Climate Change, which treats education, training, research, development, and innovation capacity as a transversal strategy. It also indicates that this climate plan will be updated to include education alongside other sectoral adaptation strategies.
2nd
Brunei Darussalam
Category 2
Climate awareness and education is one of ten core national strategies to strengthen climate resilience, though it makes no inclusion of formal schooling systems. Instead, informal programs delivered through workshops and forums aim to build a disaster-resilient community by raising public awareness and preparedness for climate-induced disasters.
1st
Burundi*
Category 2
Burundi's NDC includes awareness-raising and training programs but does not specifically connect these efforts to youth climate education.
Updated(2nd)
Cabo Verde
Category 2
Cabo Verde's NDC does not explicitly prioritize climate education but highlights an opportunity to integrate it within community resilience efforts, aiming to inform populations about risks and strengthen their ability to anticipate, prevent, and recover from disasters.
Updated(1st)
Cameroon*
Category 2
Cameroon’s NDC includes climate education and training programs as an adaptation action across all ecological agro-zones, without specifying formal or non-formal settings. It also outlines the costs for these measures and commits to working with the Ministry of Higher Education to develop climate change–related curricula.
Updated(1st)
Canada
Category 2
The Georgetown Clean Tech Park on Prince Edward Island will unite higher education, industry, and culture, and its NDC briefly recognizes education as a means to help stakeholders and civil society understand how choices—such as appliances or heat pumps—can drive decarbonization. While the national NDC offers little detail on education, responsibility for curriculum and programming rests with Canada’s ten provinces and three territories, several of which have developed more comprehensive climate education plans.
2035
Ecuador*
Category 2
Ecuador’s public policy for Actions for Climate Empowerment includes education as a core component and emphasizes empowering indigenous populations, youth, and women—recognizing their knowledge and capabilities as essential in combating climate change—through programs that address climate issues while incorporating official languages and fostering intercultural relationships.
2nd
Eswatini
Category 2
Eswatini's NDC vaguely underscores the importance of public education on climate change to raise awareness of health-related issues and highlights youth involvement in climate decision-making, but it offers no linkage to advancing formal climate education policy.
3rd
Ethiopia
Category 2
Ethiopia's NDC includes a commitment to capacity building but fails to address civic education or enhance climate literacy; the focus is mainly on the infrastructure. Capacity building in the NDC surrounds techology transfer and data accessibility, with a minimal focus on education.
3rd
European Union
Category 2
The European Union's NDC emphasizes supporting youth engagement in climate change decision-making processes and highlights the importance of climate education, training, and public awareness-raising. However, it includes no specific policies or commitments to advance climate education.
Updated(1st)
Fiji
Category 2
Fiji's NDC briefly underscores the importance of building climate awareness, but it makes no inclusion of any formal climate education initiatives or policies.
Updated(1st)
Ghana
Category 2
Ghana's NDC highlights information exchange and public awareness efforts but does not reference climate education.
Updated(1st)
Grenada
Category 2
Grenada’s NDC indicates that education will play a role in its holistic, multi-sectoral approach to climate resilience, though it offers no further details on specific educational initiatives.
2nd
Guinea Bissau
Category 2
Guinea-Bissau’s NDC candidly acknowledges its limited capacity to develop and implement climate education policies. While this transparency is valuable, the document stops short of setting any concrete or ambitious goals for strengthening climate education.
Updated(1st)
Guyana
Category 2
Guyana's NDC does not address formal climate education but emphasizes public education and awareness-raising campaigns. These efforts are designed to guide consumers toward sustainable energy choices.
1st
India
Category 2
India's NDC briefly states the importance of developing education programs but includes no specific commitments or policies. It also highlights capacity building and knowledge management, noting that 127 institutions have been established to facilitate information sharing and collaboration on climate change issues.
Updated(1st)
Iraq*
Category 2
Iraq's NDC includes support for climate education in postgraduate institutions and promotes the advancement of climate change research.
1st
Kiribati
Category 2
Kiribati's NDC emphasizes public education on climate-related disaster risk management. It also references the Key National Adaptation Priorities (KNAPs) from Kiribati's National Adaptation Plan, which include climate education.
Updated(1st)
Kuwait
Category 2
Kuwait's NDC references the Environment Protection Law and promotes environmental culture through public awareness raising. However, it does not include any formal climate education initiatives.
Updated(1st)
Kyrgyzstan
Category 1
Kyrgyzstan’s NDC notes that the state of climate education has been assessed, priorities have been established, and pilot programs have been launched. NDC3.0 enshrines "climate literacy” as a cross cutting task: integrating climate topics into school and university curricula. They also mention integrating of climate education into the healthcare system and support for healthcare workers in responding to the impacts of climate change on health. The goal for Climate Education is to establish an effective climate education system, integrated into all levels of learning and incorporating gender equality, social inclusion, and just transition. They state that they will revise educational standards and professional programs to include climate change issues, create a legal basis for climate education, introduce innovative forms of training and internships, improve teacher qualifications, and reconstruct school infrastructure with climate risks in mind.
3rd
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Category 2
The NDC dedicates a standalone section to climate change awareness but does not specify any plans for integrating climate education into formal settings. It notes that awareness-raising campaigns have been conducted nationwide and references supplemental planning documents—such as the National Strategy on Climate Change Toward 2030—that do outline formal integration of climate education.
Updated(1st)
Lesotho
Category 2
Lesotho’s NDC does not explicitly address climate education or literacy; instead, it emphasizes the need to strengthen knowledge, research, and data capacity—particularly within institutional frameworks.
1st
Liberia
Category 2
Liberia's NDC mentions the need to encourage public participation and capacity building through education and awareness. It also mentions developing training, capacity building, and strategic communications plans, by 2028, for forestry authorities and forest communities to implement climate adaptation actions in the forest sector, especially by increasing support for education and training on climate risks and adaptation solutions for vulnerable groups raising programs to enhance awareness on proper waste management practices.
3rd
Madagascar*
Category 2
Madagascar's NDC acknowledges the importance of strengthening education, training, and access to information. However, it does not extend this discussion to formal education systems or address youth-specific initiatives.
1st
Malawi
Category 2
Malawi’s NDC identifies capacity building, education, training, and awareness as one of its six priority intervention areas for climate action. While it does not explicitly mandate climate education within formal school systems, it emphasizes general and informal climate education through targeted training programs, robust knowledge-management initiatives, and ongoing communication efforts.
Updated(1st)
Mali*
Category 2
Mali's NDC acknowledges gaps in academic training and awareness-raising and calls for expanded programs to build population-wide climate literacy, but it does not address formal climate education.
Updated(1st)
Mauritius
Category 2
Mauritius' NDC references the Climate Change Act, which includes provisions for integrating climate education. Mauritius aims to set up a Regional Centre for Research and Education on Climate Change and Socioecological Transformation with the objective of being a bridge between the peoples of the Indian Ocean who share, as islanders, the threats of the global climate and ecological crisis.
3rd
Mexico*
Category 2
Mexico's NDC highlights education and public awareness-raising as key for capacity building but offers no further details or concrete plans.
Updated(1st)
Montenegro
Category 2
Montenegro’s updated third NDC includes a specific commitment to support climate education and training and to increase public awareness of climate change, but it provides no measures or plans for implementing these programs in either formal or informal settings.
3rd
Morocco*
Category 2
Morocco's NDC mentions that young people's contributions led to the identification of key recommendations, including: the development of renewable energy, the systematic integration of environmental education into school and university curricula, equitable access to climate information, as well as the creation of participatory platforms and support for green entrepreneurship.
3rd
Mozambique
Category 2
Mozambique's NDC includes public education and awareness-raising efforts but offers no specific initiatives for formal education settings.
Updated(1st)
Nicaragua's NDC mentions strengthening climate awareness and education at all levels of society as it is essential to providing communities with the tools they need to adapt to an uncertain future.
Category 2
Nicaragua's NDC emphasizes improving communication with indigenous populations, women, and youth but contains no substantive inclusion of climate education.
2nd
Niue
Category 2
Since 1971, Niue has experienced large-scale migration of its youth—predominantly to New Zealand—for educational purposes. Its NDC also calls for enhanced data collection and research to inform and support climate adaptation measures.
1st
North Macedonia
Category 2
North Macedonia’s NDC briefly includes enhancing climate education in one section. It also references the country’s Long-Term Strategy on Climate Action and its Action Plan, which emphasize integrating climate-related content into the formal education system.
Updated(1st)
Oman
Category 2
Oman's NDC does not mandate the inclusion of climate education in national laws or curricula, but it highlights targeted youth literacy efforts. Notably, the Juthoor Program and the Ocean Generation initiative—launched in early 2023—are designed to engage young people in climate change topics through focused educational activities.
Updated(2nd)
Panama*
Category 2
Panama’s NDC incorporates education as a core element of its public awareness-raising initiatives, recognizing that educational outreach is vital for enhancing climate understanding and engagement.
3rd
Papua New Guinea
Category 2
Papua New Guinea’s NDC identifies community awareness and education—especially around waste management—as key adaptation actions for achieving specific sector goals. However, most inclusions of education focus on improving general access rather than on targeted climate-learning initiatives.
2nd
Paraguay*
Category 2
Paraguay's NDC calls for incorporating climate change into various education platforms, though it stops short of mandating its inclusion in formal curricula. It also identifies tailored education programs for indigenous populations as a key climate empowerment action.
Updated(1st)
Peru*
Category 2
Peru’s National Education Plan will incorporate environmental and climate change education, ensuring that future curricula address these critical topics across all levels of schooling.
Updated(1st)
Republic of Korea
Category 2
The NDC refers to establishing a “foundation for awareness raising” but offers no further details or commitments beyond that inclusion.
Updated(1st)
Rwanda
Category 2
Rwanda’s NDC briefly highlights the promotion of climate education but provides no details on how it will be implemented or the specific settings in which it will take place.
Updated(1st)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Category 2
Saint Kitts and Nevis' NDC does not specifically include youth climate education in formal settings; however, it prioritizes public education and awareness-raising as key adaptation goals under its National Readiness framework.
Updated(1st)
Serbia
Category 2
Serbia’s NDC emphasizes the need for capacity building and awareness-raising to support its implementation but does not include formal climate education.
3rd
Sierra Leone
Category 2
Sierra Leone's NDC broadly promotes general climate education and awareness-raising programs and specifies that solar technology management will be incorporated into higher-education curricula as well as select technical and vocational schools.
Updated(1st)
South Africa
Category 2
Although South Africa's NDC does not explicitly reference climate education, it does underscore the importance of strengthening overall climate awareness and building capacity.
Updated(1st)
Sri Lanka
Category 2
In Sri Lanka’s NDC, education is identified as a key mechanism for raising awareness, especially within the sustainable waste sector, and is intended to help various stakeholders understand and address climate risks. Beyond that sectoral focus, the document also emphasizes an overarching goal of strengthening education, teaching students green skills, and research to build national capacity for climate action. Integrate climate change awareness into the tourism sector with a special focus on education.
3rd
State of Palestine
Category 2
Climate and environmental science will be implemented into education programs as part of actions for climate empowerment.
Updated(1st)
Sudan
Category 2
In its NDC, Sudan highlights awareness-raising as a valuable outcome of various sectoral strategies. However, the document does not explicitly include climate education as a method for fostering that awareness.
Updated(1st)
Syrian Arab Republic
Category 2
Syria's NDC includes the importance of building general awareness of climate change but doesn't include climate education as a tool to do so.
1st
The Democratic Republic of Congo*
Category 2
Developing public education programs on climate change risks and environmental protection is included in the NDC.
Updated(1st)
Timor-Leste
Category 2
Timor-Leste's NDC focuses on increasing access to general education services as a tool for capacity building, but does not include climate education as an adaptation strategy.
Updated(1st)
Togo*
Category 2
Improving educational and communication tools is listed in a multi-year action plan, also providing proposed costs for achievement.
Updated(1st)
Tonga's NDC itself doesn't reference climate education or related topics. However, the NDC refers to their plan to retrofit and ensure school facilities meet national standards for safety and resilience to climate change and disaster risks.
Category 2
Tonga's NDC itself doesn't reference climate education or related topics. However, the NDC refers to Tonga's Joint National Action Plan 2 (JNAP 2), stating how JNAP 2 includes content related to public awareness raising.
3rd
Trinidad and Tobago
Category 2
There is no inclusion of climate education, but "knowledge and awareness approaches to elicit behavioural changes" is included.
1st
Tunisia
Category 2
Tunisia's NDC stipulates that its successful implementation depends on educating stakeholdersand mentions youth engagement as being important but does not mention formal or informal education.
3rd
Türkiye
Category 2
Youth participation in awareness-raising activities is included, discussed in further detail in the Turkey Child Rights Strategy and Action Plan.
Updated(1st)
Turkmenistan
Category 2
Turkmenistan’s NDC briefly includes the importance of increasing investments in education as it relates to climate change. It also includes raising youth awareness on climate issues, a topic that the National Strategy of Turkmenistan on Climate Change discusses in greater detail.
1st
United States of America
Category 2
The updated United States of America 2035 NDC includes climate education. While it recognizes the broader importance of climate education for facilitating a transition to a green economy, it does not include any specific timeline or concrete policy measures at the national level. However, several state climate action plans illustrate how some jurisdictions are already integrating climate education into their strategies.
2nd
Zambia
Category 2
Zambia’s provisional NDC 3.0 includes minimal information on climate education. It includes capacity programs aimed at involving youth in the NDC process and includes broader capacity-building initiatives for the general public, though it does not include any formal or informal education programs specifically for youth.
Mentions climate education, but without any clear indication as to how it will be implemented
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Category
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Quick Facts
What NDC is this? (First, second, updated)
Afghanistan
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Armenia
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Azerbaijan
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Bahrain
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Barbados
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Belarus
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Benin*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Bhutan
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Burkina Faso*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(2nd)
Comoros*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Congo*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Cook Islands
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Côte d'Ivoire*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Djibouti
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Gabon*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Guatemala*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Guinea*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Honduras*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd (updated)
Iceland
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Israel
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Jamaica
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
3rd
Japan
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2035
Lebanon
Category 1
Lebanon's NDC states that plan on integrating climate education and awareness through schools and community-based programs, climate-resilient school infrastructure, and school-based preparedness and disaster risk reduction plans, in line with national education strategies. Additional youth recommendations include integrating water sustainability into formal education curricula, enhancing long-term public awareness and aligning with the NDC’s cross-sectoral focus on capacity-building and environmental literacy.
3rd
Liechtenstein
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Malaysia
Category 3
Malaysia's NDC only includes a very general mention of youth and their importance in the fight against climate change.
Updated(1st)
Monaco*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Morocco*
Category 2
Morocco's NDC mentions that young people's contributions led to the identification of key recommendations, including: the development of renewable energy, the systematic integration of environmental education into school and university curricula, equitable access to climate information, as well as the creation of participatory platforms and support for green entrepreneurship.
3rd
New Zealand
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
Niger*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Norway
Category 3
The NDC acknowledges the importance of youth voices in drafting climate policies but does not extend this recognition to supporting youth climate education or awareness initiatives.
Updated(2nd)
Palau
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Philippines
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Russian Federation
Category 3
The Russian Federdation NDC mentions one project; the Climate change education and raising awareness – Phase II of the Climate Box (global project) (2023–2026).
2nd
Samoa
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
2nd
San Marino
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Sao Tome and Principe
Category 3
Sao Tome and Principe's NDC states that they plan to integrate climate change education into school curricula (primary, secondary, vocational, university). The education sector requires digital tools, teaching materials and laboratories for training in green jobs and energy transition. But equally fundamental are the capacities of teachers and technical training centres, as well as the integration of climate education at all levels. The cost of developing teaching materials and continuing education programmes is estimated to be $2 million USD.
3rd
Saudi Arabia
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Senegal*
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
1st
Singapore
Category 3
Singapore's previous NDC included a brief statement encouraging groups, including youth and schools, to engage in creating climate solutions. However, their updated second NDC includes no mention of schools, education, youth, or awareness raising campaigns.
2nd
Solomon Islands
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
Switzerland
Category 3
Switzerland's updated NDC includes information necessary to facilitate clarity, transparency, and understanding (ICTUs). However, this update does not address climate education in formal settings.
2nd
Ukraine
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
Updated(1st)
United Republic of Tanzania
Category 3
No relevant mention of education in connection with climate change.
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