Schools are gearing up for The Climate Action Countdown – starting 7 June
It’s nearly time for 29 days of fun, inclusive, inspiring schools’ climate action! Schools around the UK are invited to sign up to the most exciting collaborative and fun climate […]
Press response on London Mayor’s new climate action plan
Let’s Go Zero welcomes London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new climate action plan announced on 12 April, which includes the launch of a new Net Zero Schools initiative. The new initiative, […]
Winning schools in IKEA X Let’s Go Zero competition
Four winning schools across the UK have been announced as winners in the IKEA-Let’s Go Zero sustainable schools’ competition. The competition – a partnership of IKEA and the national zero […]
From grow-your-own food banks to food-waste wormeries, here are the UK’s prizewinning green schools projects
Twenty-five schools have won green funding to boost nature projects on their grounds. The zero carbon schools campaign, Let’s Go Zero, and OVO Foundation, have awarded cash prizes of up […]
Department for Education’s ‘sticking plaster’ energy efficiency funding released
The Department for Education’s announcement of £500m for schools to reduce their energy use falls far short of the funding needed for a nationwide retrofit programme to reduce costs and […]
‘National emergency retrofit response’ needed for UK schools
Let’s Go Zero, the campaign supporting schools to be zero carbon by 2030, is calling on the new Secretary of State for the Department for Education to retrofit every school […]
Flipping how we teach the climate crisis could be just what young people need
The pandemic has been really tough for children and young people. According to NHS Digital, probable mental health disorders nearly doubled after the first lockdown. The last thing children need […]
All doing their bit for zero carbon schools
The National Education Union look at how schools are doing their bit to tackle climate change in their magazine, Educate. Schools joining Let’s Go Zero are supporting the campaign’s […]
Climate action in schools: Ideas to reduce your carbon impact
Taking climate action in schools and reducing your school’s carbon emissions is not as difficult as it may seem. Alex Green from the Let’s Go Zero campaign outlines some inspiring […]
Tips for schools in cutting carbon and slashing energy bills
Lowering energy use in old buildings, or ensuring new ones are energy efficient, is one of the main routes to becoming a zero carbon school. Alex Green, schools manager of […]
Zero Carbon Schools by 2030
The Eco Team at St Francis Xavier School explain their work. The school has joined the Let’s Go Zero campaign, which is uniting schools pledging to go zero carbon within […]
We can have sustainable schools if we pull together
The best place to start the green revolution is in our schools, say Mathilde Iveson and Amelie Nichols We’ve been honoured to be called Yorkshire’s answer to Greta Thunberg in […]
Yorkshire ‘Greta’ Calls On Her MP Rishi Sunak To Support School’s Journey To Zero Carbon
A 14-year old student, Mathilde Iveson, from St Francis Xavier School in Richmond, North Yorkshire, has written to her MP, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, […]
Hey teachers – leave those kids a green school.
The New Scientist turns to Let’s Go Zero, the new campaign to decarbonise schools, in their latest Fix the Planet newsletter. What are schools already doing (a lot!), what works […]
Schools are being asked to go Zero Carbon – how realistic is that aim?
The Telegraph looks at how schools can achieve their Let’s Go Zero pledge to go zero carbon by 2030. As well as taking action in key areas like energy use […]
UK schools pledge to be zero carbon by 2030
Led by climate solutions charity Ashden, Let’s Go Zero will officially launch at the week-long Youth Climate Summit starting 9 November with a series of daily presentations and discussions. A new […]
New scheme to help UK’s schools align with net-zero
Charities including Ashden, Global Action Plan and the Fairtrade Foundation have teamed up to launch a new initiative helping UK schools transition to net-zero. Called ‘Let’s Go Zero’, the initiative […]
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