Carbon Literacy for Community Leaders

Carbon Literacy is a one-day course for community leaders, building climate knowledge, action planning and skills to drive local change.

Carbon Literacy is a day’s worth of climate learning and action. It equips individuals, communities and organisations with the knowledge, motivation and skills needed to take meaningful action against climate change. It is the largest low-carbon culture-change project of its kind in the UK and globally recognized with over 157,000 people and 14,000 organisations certified as Carbon Literate.

This Community Leaders course is targeted at those leading the way in community action across Bolton. By the end of the course, you will have:

• Gained an understanding of the basic science of climate change and how climate change will affect us both globally and locally
• Gained an understanding of how climate change will affect your local community
• Explored actions you can take as a community leader and what help is available
• Created an action plan to help reduce your personal carbon footprint and that of your local area
• Explored strategies for influencing others to take action on climate change

This free event will be co-delivered by Turn Up the Value and Groundwork Greater Manchester