Climate-Resilient California Schools: A Call to Action
Safeguarding Children’s Health and Opportunity to Learn in TK-12
Amid fires, wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and other climate-driven disasters and health hazards, California’s leading experts in children’s health and education have come together to call for a cost-effective, ten year $150 billion investment to ensure K-12 public schools can remain open and provide safe and healthy places for California's children to learn and grow.
Through 14 strategic recommendations reflecting three essential dimensions of a school — campus, community, and curriculum — this new report lays out cost-effective solutions to mitigate learning loss, youth anxiety, and school closures — all crises already made worse by the pandemic. This is the first comprehensive report on climate-driven impacts on children in CA that addresses the full scope of the problem while laying out an immediately actionable plan.
Findings and ideas from these workshops were developed under the leadership of Stanford University’s Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford Medicine’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Action Lab for Planetary Health, the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools, Ten Strands, and UndauntedK12.
