Italy will become the first country to bring the very current and delicate issue of climate change to schools. This was communicated by the precedent Minister of Education Lorenzo Fioramonti, which wants to lead our country to become world leader in education of environmental tourism.
Raise awareness on the issue of climate change right from school
As mentioned, one is in progress extraordinary innovation in the school sector. The delicate issue of climate change and the sustainability, in fact, it will be carried between the school desks, in order to raise awareness among our fellow citizens on the subject, very current, from a very young age. Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said that all public schools will include approximately 33 hours per year in their training plans to study the issues related to climatic phenomena brought into vogue in a very strong way by very young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
The program is that of implement this innovation by September 2020 (next school year), as Fioramonti spokesman Vincenzo Cramarossa told CNN. It is essential, as reported by Cramarossa to the British broadcaster, that the Italian citizens of the future are ready to tackle the issue of climate change and sustainability. To do this, importance is increasingly central, too in local government programs, the theme of sustainable development.
A new environmentalist policy direction
And the topic of climate change will be talked about more and more frequently during the lessons of more traditional subjects, such as geography, mathematics and physics. This change was strongly desired by the former minister Fioramonti. He, in fact, in that economics professor at Pretoria University in South Africa, he stressed the importance of raising these arguments at the heart of the educational model. If this project were to go through, Italy would have the first educational system that it sets up the environment and society at the center of everything we learn in school.
With this in mind, the Government requested the opinion of some leading scientific experts. We are talking about scholars of the caliber of Jeffrey D.Sachs, director of Columbia University's Center for Sustainable Development, and the American economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin.
