For more than a decade St Vincent’s in Liverpool has been integrating climate action into its curriculum. It’s also joined Ashden’s Let’s Go Zero, a national campaign uniting UK schools working to cut their carbon emissions to zero by 2030.

St Vincent’s Principal, Dr John Patterson, says: “The voices of all people need to be listened to, and I think most definitely our young people have showed limitless creativity and how they can actively be involved in climate action and biodiversity action by their ideas. For us as a school, it's really, really important that our children forge that way forward to showcase how people with disabilities can really be included in carbon reduction.Young people with visual impairment, they’re used to adapting and having to do things differently. So, climate change is just a natural move on for how they're taught.”

The UK’s 32,000 schools create significant carbon emissions and have big role in influencing future generations and their wider communities. Making sure that all young people understand how to create a sustainable future for all, and leave school ready to take on zero carbon jobs and live sustainably is crucial.

“This country has an amazing history of being creative. We need to capture all people's creativity, by giving the best possible creative curriculum, and it's the children who are going to come up with the ideas to save the planet. If you've got a super creative curriculum where children's ideas are encouraged, ideas with the young people are limitless. We embrace it, capture it and that's the type of curriculum mainstream schools need as well.