Climate Action Schools
3 October 2025
“Climate education has an important role to tackle climate change on a global scale. It informs students, takes away climate anxiety, and brings important skills to a classroom including empathy, creativity, and problem-solving. Climate Action Schools will allow teachers to be trained and students to showcase their efforts on a global scale.” shares program co-founder, Koen Timmers.
Climate Action Schools.
Take Action Global is delighted to welcome 100 global schools to the 2022-2023 Climate Action Schools community. Climate Action Schools is a new global network that connects educators and students ages 5-18 to explore the causes and effects of climate change, develop solutions, and take action together.
Young people worldwide are witnessing climate change and want to take action. They understand the power of collective action and of the integral role that they play in creating change at a global-level. There is an urgent need to provide more opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to come together in cross-cultural exchange for dialogue, shared experience, and action. Climate Action Schools seeks to meet this need.
Each school will take action during this 10-month, school-wide climate education learning experience, that will include educator certifications and an online Community of Practice, cross-curricular resources, guided schoolwide data collection, school-to-school international virtual exchanges, and a student-led schoolwide climate project.
Take Action Global
About Take Action Global is a leading nonprofit organization committed to climate action education and equitable educational learning opportunities for global educators and K-12 students. TAG supports the United Nations’ Agenda for 2030 with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with specific focus on SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 13: Climate Action, and SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals.
During the past six years, TAG has served over 3.4 million students and educators from 149 countries through online learning programs. TAG has established partnerships with international experts and world leaders, including the UN, NASA, LEGO, Cartoon Network, and the Jane Goodall Institute, and 20 Ministries of Education. TAG is a co-author of the Climate Literacy Petition on Earth Day 2022 with the Earth Day Organization and Fridays for the Future.
Avani Mack, Educator, DC Public Schools, Washington, D.C., USA
As an IB school, we strive for our students to think globally and act compassionately. As we continue to seek opportunities to incorporate global issues into our curriculum, Climate Action Schools provides a clear roadmap for our educators and students to take meaningful action in their local and global communities.
Mahrukh Bashir, School Director of Academics, Millenia World School, Indonesia
We are empowering and educating our students to improve the way we live in this world, otherwise, we will not have a world to live in.
Grade 9 Student Ernests, Heritage International School, Moldova
Climate change is happening. This debate is over. When Earth will finally give up, we will know how important it was to us. But I have a dream – in 100 years Earth is green, and we thrive on this magnificent planet of ours. The ‘stop’ button is still here. Learn how to click it while you can.
Dr. Janet Fike, Superintendent of Schools, Morris-Union Jointure Commission, New Jersey
Knowledge, Purpose, and Relationships…These are the meaningful elements of a successful education as well as life. As a founding school district of Climate Action Schools, our students are gaining essential knowledge of how climate is the basis for life; how to work purposefully to create means of saving and creating resources; and how to form relationships with students from all over the world.
Koen Timmers, Co-founder, Co-Executive Director, Take Action Global, Climate Action Schools
Climate education has an important role to tackle climate change on a global scale. It informs students, takes away climate anxiety, and brings important skills to a classroom including empathy, creativity, and problem-solving. Through our app we have been able to keep track of efforts as part of our initiatives and we have been able to point out the impact of climate education by amount of tons of avoided carbon. Climate Action Schools will allow teachers to be trained and students to showcase their efforts on a global scale.