The Carbon Literacy (CL) Project is a large scale Climate Change Education programme that stems from Manchester’s first climate change strategy (2010-2020) called Manchester: A Certain Future. The aim is to provide CL training to everyone that lives, works or studies in Manchester.
According to the CL Project, being Carbon Literate is defined as having:
“An awareness of the carbon costs and impacts of everyday activities and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.”
Since its inception in 2012, CL has been rolled out in a number of organisations including BBC, ITV, Manchester City Council and HOME. The project has also spread beyond Manchester and is now being delivered across a number of cities and regions in UK and Europe. So far, over 14,000 people are Carbon Literate.
CL at Manchester Met
Manchester Met was one of the first organisations to roll out CL training and so far, over 1000 students and members of staff have attended the training.
The training is delivered in partnership between the Environment Team and the Carbon Literacy team in the Department of Natural Sciences (Science & Engineering) and funded through the Environmental Education Fund.
Since 2015, the training has mainly been delivered through our award winning CL train-the-trainer programme in which students are trained to deliver CL to other students as well as members of staff.
You will meet some of the student trainers throughout this course, both through short video clips where they discuss a number of topics linked to the course, as well as in the webinars.