Our Program

The goal of Bard College’s Solve Climate by 2030 education project is to catalyze education about climate change, solutions and justice throughout the world. We accomplish this through coordinated climate education – choosing a time period on the calendar and inviting the thousands of educators and students who are greatly concerned or alarmed about the climate crisis, to step up and provide educational activities of their choosing.

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We do not tell people what or how to teach, realizing that they know best about the needs of their students, institutions and communities. We provide support, including curricular materials developed by our partners, webinars and other online community discussions, and certificates of participation for themselves and their students. We formerly provided microgrants to partners in the Global South when we had grant funds to do so.

The project has grown from about 50 virtual dialogs on climate solutions on a single day in late March 2020 with nearly every state in the US participating, despite the COVID lockdown that began less than two weeks previously. We expanded geographically to cover the globe and temporally to a week (2022-25) and now a month (2026 and continuing). Initially we encouraged our partners to organize events. In 2024, we shifted our emphasis to encourage classroom events in order to reach more students and better integrate with curricula.

Explore partner Impact Reports: 
African Environmental Network - 2023