Abstract

PROSSER BRAVO, Gabriel; ARBOLEDA-ARIZA, Juan Carlos  and  BONILLA HEVIA, Nicolás. Education for Climate Change and Environmental Knowledge in Declarations of the High-level Segment of COP25. RMIE [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.87, pp.873-899.  Epub Feb 19, 2021. ISSN 1405-6666.

In response to the crisis of climate change, a series of intergovernmental strategies has been generated and is discussed at summits like the Conferences of the Parties (COP). The objective of this study is to describe environmental knowledge and ideas about climate change education that are present in the discourses of the high-level segment of COP25. Qualitative content analysis was carried out in an attempt to reveal the explicit and implicit meanings that emerged from 116 discourses delivered at COP25. The main findings show few explicit references to education and relate environmental knowledge to the key actors in climate action: state agents, scientists, young people, and the Indigenous. The conclusions indicate that these discourses are established from a rhetoric of action that implies only a greenwashing policy, without concrete efforts.

Keywords : climate change; environmental education; discourse analysis.