FT Schools competition: climate change

College learners are invited to enter the joint FT and Royal Geographical Society competition on local climate change and sustainability. 

All those learning A stage geography or the equivalent have right up until September 30 to produce an essay of up to one,000 terms or an ArcGIS StoryMap, picking and analysing knowledge on sustainability and local climate change to tell the geographical at the rear of it. 

Entries should really be based mostly around the Cop-26 2021 aims ‘to boost local climate ambition, construct resilience and reduce emissions’ and should really take into account a assortment of scales — from community to international. 

The judges will search for entries supported by proof, producing a clear argument and with referenced sources of details and knowledge. The most effective will be posted by the FT and the RGS. 

Full aspects and an entry sort are available on the RGS internet site. 

Candidates are encouraged to get their faculties to indicator up for the FT’s free of charge faculties obtain programme, and could attract inspiration from content in the FT these as this assortment on climate change and this on sustainability.