GrantScape is taking part in the International Carbon Literacy Action Day!

GrantScape is officially participating in the annual International Carbon Literacy Action Day – the largest climate education-and-action training day of its kind. As a result of being part of this initiative, GrantScape is highlighting its dedication towards tackling climate change through education, lowering its organisational carbon emissions, and its commitment to inspiring its learners to working towards a zero-carbon future.

The fourth annual Carbon Literacy Action Day (CLAD) is the largest climate education-and-action training day, taking place on Thursday 14th November 2024 – coinciding with COP29 – the UN Conference of the Parties and largest climate event of the year.

The Carbon Literacy Action Day is The Carbon Literacy Project’s response to the annual COP conference, and is the first and largest mass training event of its kind, where learners from all walks of life, sectors, genders, ages and nations all around the world, will participate in and complete their days’ worth of Carbon Literacy training simultaneously, to become certified as Carbon Literate. As part of their training day, learners make pledges to reduce their own carbon footprints, using their developed understanding of climate change to take action in both their personal and professional lives.

Thus, as the world prepares to witness world leaders gather at COP29 to discuss, deliberate and negotiate on climate policy, Carbon Literacy learners, all over the world, will be learning, collaborating and becoming empowered to take impactful action on climate change.

Carbon Literacy® is relevant climate education for everyone, and equates to a day’s worth of learning and action on climate change. It is defined as, “An awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.”

GrantScape is proud to share that its activity for the Action Day is to train all staff members, with the aim of having our entire workforce certified as Carbon Literate at the beginning of 2025. Certified training is being delivered internally by their existing Carbon Literate member of staff to the rest of the team of eleven.

Matt Young, CEO at GrantScape, commented: “We’re excited to be taking part in Climate Literacy Action Day and looking forward to a day of learning and coming together to shares ideas. Delivering Carbon Literacy training to our whole team will motivate and empower us all to make changes as individuals and collectively, to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce the impact of our operations.”

Dave Coleman, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carbon Literacy Project, said: “Carbon Literacy is not about creating a future that is ‘slightly less bad than it could be’. It’s about creating a future that is secure, and inspiring, and actually better than the recent past. Carbon Literacy is a unique approach – not-for-profit, co-developed by a working group drawn from all sectors and audiences. It is scalable and adaptable, of immediate relevance as it is developed by the audiences receiving it, and tested and proven in use, by thousands of organisations, and tens of thousands of citizens, all acting in concert to deliver immediate solutions to the climate crisis, both now and in the future.”

Phil Korbel, Co-Founder and Director of Advocacy at The Carbon Literacy Project, said: “It’s all very well talking about global warming – but without action that’s just so much hot air. Carbon Literacy is about mobilising people at scale to do their best climate thing, moving whole workforces and communities to embed impactful climate action into their day-to day-lives. This year saw us crest the 100,000 certified learner mark and within that huge number we see people from all walks of life stepping up to put their energy and talent to moving the climate dial. The Carbon Literacy Action Day condenses this phenomenon into one exciting day that brings our whole movement together during COP29 for the world to see that we do indeed bring ’climate action where you are.”