TNPSC Thervupettagam

Impact of Climate Change on Education

August 2 , 2024 113 days 199 0
  • The Most low and middle-income countries are experiencing the climate-related school closures every year, increasing chances of learning loss and dropout.
  • The Climate change has a negative impact on education indirectly through its displacement of people and the effects on people’s livelihoods and health.
  • Over the past 20 years, schools were closed in at least 75% of the extreme weather events, impacting five million people or more.
  • In the United States, without air conditioning, a school year hotter by 1-degree Celsius, reduced test scores by 1%.
  • During 2022, 32.6 million were internally displaced due to disasters.
  • Rainfall shocks over the first 15 years of life in India.
  • It negatively affected vocabulary at age five and mathematics and non-cognitive skills at the age of 15.

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