Keele University has transformed its approach to the curriculum integrating climate change into every aspect of its design. Professor Zoe Robinson, the university’s first director of sustainable education, said: “It was traditionally focused on the oil and gas industry,” she says, with some initial pushback from the department at the idea of taking a more sustainable approach. “But now we’re in a position where the programme has been mapped against the UN’s Sustainability Development goals and [the department] are talking about a decarbonisation of the curriculum. We’ve seen a complete turnaround from some initial suspicion to wanting to make a mark in their discipline.”

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