CLEAN Teleconference Call September 18, 2018
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Accelerating Climate Action Through Education at the Global Climate Action Summit
Bio: Frank Niepold is the Climate Education Coordinator at NOAA's Climate Program Office in Silver Spring Maryland, Climate.gov Education section lead, co-chair for the CLEAN Network, the U.S. Climate Action Report Education, Training, and Outreach chapter lead for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Education and Youth delegate for the United States at the 2015 Conference of Parties (COP21), and a member of the Federal Steering Committee for the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4). At NOAA, he develops and implements NOAA's Climate goal education and outreach efforts that specifically relate to NOAA's Climate goal and literacy objective. Frank is the "Teaching Climate" lead for NOAA's Climate.gov web portal that offers learning activities and curriculum materials, multi-media resources, and professional development opportunities for formal and informal educators who want to incorporate climate science into their work.
Abstract: Learn about education events at the Global Climate Action Summit that brought together community, business, and education leaders to showcase and explore models that build social will and capacities needed to assist communities and businesses in reaching the net zero emissions by 2050 needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's aspiration for a 1.5 degree world. Participants worked together to develop options for integrating climate change education, community engagement, and workforce development activities into climate action plans with the goal of accelerating and supporting place-based climate solutions.
Event objectives:
- Explore how climate change education, community engagement, and workforce development programs are assisting communities in their ambitious climate action goals for the coming decades; and
- Identify how community and business leaders can work with climate change education professionals to meet the goals of local and regional climate action plans.
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