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International Conference on

Recent Trends in Environmental Sustainability

ESCON22/CDMP/09
The state of climate change education: evaluating the behavior and attitude of students

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Laila Shahzad , Muhammad Umar Hayyat , Tahira Firdous , Faiza Sharif , Umair Raiz ,
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Sadia Yousaf and Nimra Riaz
1, Sustainable Development Study Centre, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan
2 Soil and Water testing Laboratory for Research Bahawalpure-63100, Pakistan
Correspondence: lailashahzad@gcu.edu.pk
Abstract
Climate change is considered as the broadest worldwide ecological and political issue
confronting mankind at this moment. It has become the foundation of strategy making all
through the world. In this context, climate change education has become a fundamental concept
to cope this menace. The current study was conducted with a goal to evaluate the attitude and
behavior of School students towards climate change. Climate change awareness was also raised
among the students to highlight the significance of the subject. A total of 1000 students were
part of study who interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. They were asked about
the inefficiencies due to which they were not being able to teach about climate change
education. These were, lack of state standards in teaching climate change related subjects, lack
of training on related topic, lack of time, lack of teaching resources. The results of research
indicate that, most of population of respondents agreed in learning climate change education
and communications. Some of them focused on climate change education to create
environmental awareness at school level as well as at local community level. The study
suggested that the curriculum should include climate change related material; cause of climate
change, impacts of climate change etc. more research is need in this field that should focus on
both curriculum as well as method adopted to teach climate change.
Keywords: Attitude; behavior; climate change; educational significance; perception; Lahore

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus

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