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Climate Ambassadors

Funded by the DfE, Climate Ambassadors match volunteer climate experts with education settings.

Let’s Go Zero Climate Action Advisors

Part of Let’s Go Zero, Climate Action Advisors are independent experts who offer free support for schools, colleges, and nurseries across England.

Biodiversity

Improve your setting’s green spaces and local environment to help the planet and encourage learners to spend time in nature.

Milestones are key actions that enable you to complete your aims. You can also use them as points to share and celebrate your progress.

Complete a biodiversity assessment

Identify the variety of plant and animal species in and around your setting. This will enable you to plan actions you can take to improve the biodiversity of your setting.

MilestoneLow costRepeat action
Identify and monitor key biodiversity indicators

Use the results of your biodiversity assessment to identify specific plants, animals, or other ecological factors that you can use to monitor overall biodiversity health in and around your setting.

Low costLong term action
Increase governor and SLT awareness of the importance of biodiversity

Educate your decision makers about the significance of improving biodiversity in and around your setting. This creates a foundation from which to build your setting's approach to improving biodiversity.

Low costLong term action
Arrange biodiversity training for your estates and site staff

Biodiversity training should help your estates and site staff carry out, understand and interpret biodiversity survey and assessment activities. This will enable them to identify quick wins and ultimately lead to more effective management of onsite and local ecosystems.

One off action
Build a whole-setting awareness of biodiversity

Educate everyone at your setting, including your staff, children and young people, and parents (where appropriate), about the importance of biodiversity and actions we can take to support it.

MilestoneLow costLong term action