Italy committed to climate change awareness: Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo

Islamabad: Italy ambassador to Pakistan Stefano Pontecorvo Sunday said that his country was committed to climate change awareness.

The envoy said Italy had decided to include sustainability and climate-change awareness into the curriculum at all public schools.

Ambassador Pontecorvo said climate change was a global issue and every country was paying attention.

Pakistan, he said, also needed to work more to create awareness.

He said Italy’s decision to include sustainability and climate-change awareness into the curriculum at all public schools had has generated massive support from stakeholders across the board.

Environmental advocates have praised the move, he said. The plan is to initially teach climate change as part of the civics course in schools.

Albeit, as the project matures and expands the lessons on sustainability will get integrated into a wider array of subjects.

Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti wants to, “make the Italian education system the first education system that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school”.

Starting from the next school year, faculty will teach students about environmental change and its repercussions. The eventual goal is to include the United Nation’s agenda on climate change into the entire school curriculum.

Incorporation of climate change studies into the curriculum is in essence, a way of bringing about ideological change in society.