Virtual event
Climate Literacy 101
Exclusively for public servants and policymakers
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025
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Speakers
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Resources
- Event transcript
- Petra's Slides
- Bonnie's Slides
- En-ROADS Climate Policy Simulator
- Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
- Net zero Speed & Scale Tracker
- Drawdown Climate Solutions Library
- The Handbook of Carbon Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function by Petra Molthan-Hill, Fiona Winfield, Richard Howarth, & MuhammadMazhar
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Event Description
68% of public servants say climate change is affecting their work, yet only 35% have received any climate or environment-related training. The good news? You don’t need to be an expert to consider climate impacts in your work.
This session will equip you with the essential knowledge to make informed decisions and lead with confidence — no matter your role.
Join experts in climate science and policy to learn the essentials, explore practical strategies and discover how to integrate climate literacy into your work.
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Speakers
Professor Petra Molthan-Hill
Co-Chair of the UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change, Professor at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
UK
Bonnie Penfold
Manager, Research and Training at Environment and Climate Change Canada
Canada
Professor Petra Molthan-Hill, PhD is Co-Chair of the UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change, Professor at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University (UK), Author of the 'Handbook of Carbon Management. A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function' and Editor of 'Sustainable Management. A Complete Guide for Faculty and Students' (3rd edition). She is an international multi-award-winning expert for Climate Change Mitigation Tools and leads the ‘Climate Literacy Training -CLT-ECOS' distributed worldwide with QS Impact and UN PRME, which won the QS Reimagine Education Award in Sustainability (Gold) in 2022. She has worked with SMEs and many other organizations such as the NHS on how to reduce GHG emissions. From 2013–2021, she led the Green Academy at NTU integrating with her team the SDGs into the curriculum of every discipline across all faculties.
Bonnie Penfold, is a Manager responsible for public service climate literacy for the Government of Canada. Working alongside a new Climate, Nature and Economy Lens that applies to the federal government's policy and budget making processes, Bonnie and team have developed a foundational Climate Literacy suite at the Canada School of Public Service, launched in Fall 2023, alongside supporting workshops, job aids and community supports. Bonnie has been drawing together international colleagues responsible for building climate capable government, and demonstrating the importance of climate literacy and green skills for all civil service organizations. With a long background in trade and transportation policy, she is invested now in communicating with public servants about how our work affects the climate and how the changing climate affects our work, and working to equip us for this future.
