Teaching climate crisis in classrooms critical for children, top educators say

Letter urges president-elect Joe Biden to offer students in public schools routine lessons on the threats posed by global heating

Joe Biden's efforts to tackle the climate crisis need to extend to American classrooms with routine lessons on the threats posed by global heating, two former US education secretaries have urged.

In a letter to the Democratic president-elect, the former top education officials - John King and Arne Duncan - said the education of more than 50 million children in US public schools provides a critical opportunity" to prepare them for a world transformed by climate change, as well as the opportunities afforded by renewable energy and other potential solutions to the crisis.