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THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON EDUCATION
Tursunova Munojat Begzodbek qizi
talabasi:
Yaqubjonova Ro‘zixon Mirkomil qizi
ilmiy rahbar:
Andijon davlat chet tillari instituti
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15430104
Annotation:
This thesis examines how climate change affects education by
disrupting school access, damaging infrastructure, and displacing students and
teachers. It also explores the need for climate education and suggests strategies
to build resilient education systems. The study uses case studies and existing
research to highlight key impacts and solutions.
Keywords:
climate change, education, school disruption, climate
education, resilience, infrastructure, displacement.
Climate change has a direct impact on education. The primary impacts of
climate change on education arise from the effects of extreme weather events,
such as heavy rains accompanied by flash floods, strong winds and hail storms
with short and long-term consequences. Drought and increasing temperatures
lead to poor harvests and food scarcity which have negative impacts upon
educational attainment.
Extreme weather events reduce the availability of safe drinking water,
compromise sanitation and increase the incidence of weather related diseases
such as malaria and diarrhoeal diseases, leading to absenteeism and possible
withdrawal of children from school. Beside the primary impacts, climate change
also has secondary impacts on education, arising from the ways in which
households respond to, or choose to cope with and adapt to climate change as
evidenced by income supplementing activities of household members, migration
and child marriages.
These extreme weather events are increasingly disrupting schooling;
precipitating learning losses, dropouts, and long-term impacts. The education of
75 million children is estimated to have been disrupted by conf ict and natural
disasters. These are projected to increase in frequency and severity with climate
change.Over 99 percent of children around the world are exposed to at least one
major climate and environmental hazard, shock. These are eroding education
outcomes and recent progress in improving school access and learning.
Extreme weather events threaten learning, enrollment, and the future
prospects of students through both direct and indirect channels. conflict,
migration, and displacement . These indirect pathways. result in reduced
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student readiness to learn due to health and nutrition shocks diminished
demand for schooling due to household coping mechanisms, and disruption to
education services due to displacement and conf ict.
UCS analyzed how rising heat stress levels would a ect students in the San
Joaquin Valley,California as a case study of why climate-smart infrastructure is
critical to protect children in awarming future. Many children in the region are
at high risk of heat-related illness. Risingtemperatures would reduce the
window of time that it is safe for these children to be activeoutdoors, potentially
disrupting health-promoting activities like exercise, further interrupting
everyday life, and reinforcing the importance of reliable cooling and climate-safe
infrastructure and school facilities. This analysis illustrates just one of many
reasons that our schools must be prepared for a future of more climate
extremes. Like many other types of infrastructure, schools have traditionally
been designed and builtusing past climate and weather trends to predict the
future. Previously, this assumption was reasonable, but global warming is
making it increasingly invalid. Instead, the future will bring increased variability
and longer, more frequent, and more intense heat waves, droughts, heavy
precipitation and f ooding. While the degree and type of impact may vary by
location, no part of the nation will be left untouched. The crumbling state of our
school facilities, which earned a “D+” from American Society of Civil Engineers,
leaves them even more vulnerable to these impacts.Recent events like 2018’s
Camp Fire in California remind us what can happen if school facilities are not
ready. The f re resulted in the loss of more than 80 lives destroying schools and
students’ homes, and, combined with concurrent f res in other parts of the state,
its smoke led to the closure of more than 180 school districts across the state
(with impacts on 1.1 million students). In recent weeks, Public Safety Power
Shuto s to prevent wildf res left many schools without power and no choice but
to close. The impacts of a changing climate aren’t isolated to California. Schools
without air conditioning in Baltimore and Columbus, Ohio, shut their doors
during the record-breaking heatwave last month. Historic f ooding in the
Midwest this year led to the closing of nearly 20 school districts.
As climate-related events continue to increase in frequency and intensity,
they create significant barriers to children’s educational success. Extreme
weather conditions directly reduce learning capacity, with evidence showing
that high temperatures and climate
disruptions can result in severe learning losses. The compounding effects of
school closures, displacement and economic instability caused by climate-
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induced disasters disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations,
including girls, children with disabilities, and children from low-income families.
In some cases, as in Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific Islands, entire
communities are displaced, and children lose months or even years of schooling.
Teachers, too, are deeply affected by climate change. In regions hit by
climate-induced disasters, they face immense challenges, including damaged
infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms, and emotional and physical burdens.
Their ability to teach is compromised, further affecting the learning outcomes of
their students. The hardships that they face, which remain largely unreported,
combined with insufficient training to address the specific needs of climate-
displaced children, weaken the overall educational system’s resilience, and their
ability to teach effectively.
The role of education and education systems needs to be recognized as a
critical tool in the regional response to climate change, and all components of an
educational system must be retrofitted to respond effectively to future climate-
induced disasters. Developing these transformative, climate-smart education
systems that integrate climate change adaptation, mitigation, preparedness and
resilience is essential globally and in the most climate-vulnerable EAP region.
Most importantly, these education systems must be designed to equip children
with the knowledge and skills to navigate and overcome the challenges posed by
their changing environment. When education systems are climate-smart, they
provide children with the capability to transform their futures and address
future climate-induced disasters.
References:
1.Unicef for every child. Under pressure: The impacts of climate change on
education in the East Asia and Pacific Region. United Nations Fund (UNICEF),
March 2025.
2.Jamesine Rogers Gibson. Climate Change Affects Students’ Well-Being: Case
Study of Extreme Heat in San Joaquin Valley and Need for Climate-Smart
Schools.November 7, 2019.
3.Sergio Venegas Marin, Lara Schwarz, and Shwetlena Sabarwal. The impact of
climate change on education and what to do about it. April 2024.
4.Climate change and education. Zimbabwe Human Development Report 2017.
