Italy is First Country to Require Climate Change Study in Schools

Italy’s education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti, said that starting with the next school year, all school children in Italy will spend 33 hours per year studying climate change and sustainable development. It will also be included in some traditional subjects such as geography, math, and physics. He said “I want to make the Italian education system the first education system that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school.”

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