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Opinion systems and ideologies are deeply connected with our self-esteem: if you challenge climate deniers about their opinions, they feel attacked. That's why we have such a big problem with communicating climate change amongst adults.

Inez Harker-Schuch

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Description

Inez is a researcher with a Ph.D. in climate literacy and serious educational games. She realized ten years ago that online platforms and the Internet could be leveraged to make the world a better place and not only be reduced to entertain us.

She works as Head of Education for the Planet Academy, a virtual learning space designed to teach climate literacy to all thanks to state-of-the-art pedagogies and a world-first environmental science curriculum.

• A detailed description of Inez's research

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Key Figures

Official launch for Q4 2021

Key points of the interview

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• What is climate literacy?
• Why do we have problems communicating climate change with adults: notion of worldview bias
• We must not communicate fear to hope for climate action
• Worldview starts developing at early adolescence: good timing to teach about climate change
• The necessity to have knowledge on climate change before that?
• If you are literate on climate science, it is very likely that you will support the climate crisis: overcoming worldview bias and the knowledge deficit model