What Is Climate Literacy?

Marek Oziewicz

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v1i1.5240

Keywords: climate literacy, climate science literacy, climate change education


Abstract

This article offers a work-in-progress reflection on the concept of climate literacy as we use it in CLE. The first part includes a working definition of climate literacy. This is followed by a brief historical outline of the two approaches to climate literacy: as a narrow, disciplinary-specific competence versus a wider, interdisciplinary one. The argument is offered as an invitation to your own inquiry about what climate literacy means to you.