The My Climate Risk Education Working Group (MCR-EWG) is a forum for MCR members to discuss and disseminate learnings from our engagement with communities on the ground in hubs around the world. This work is relevant to our own education as well as climate education for future climate scientists and the general public. Our current project is based on our first event, a 2-part webinar series entitled "Can we do better? Climate Science and Colonialism" which was held in October 2023, featuring 8 international scholars. We have been collaborating with two MCR hubs (Himalayan University Consortium since early 2024 and the Walker Institute more recently) to develop the webinar recordings toward an online Educator's Guide on the intersection of climate science and colonialism. We have now completed preliminary work for the first of seven modules and expect to be piloting the initial version in 2025.
The EWG seeks to provide a forum for MCR members to engage with the following questions and disseminate important ideas emerging from them:
- What are MCR members learning from working with communities of different kinds in various hubs around the world?
- What gaps in our own knowledge are we discovering that need to be addressed? What can we learn from community partners and from each other?
- What are the implications for climate education for future climate scientists as well as the general public?
- How can we collect and disseminate important learnings within MCR and beyond?
- And therefore, how can we help make climate education an ally of climate adaptation and mitigation?
Check more information on the MCR EWG website!
