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Animated image of planet earth with blog title What the 2024 Climate Record Means for the Future—and How Education Can Help
What the 2024 Climate Record Means for the Future—and How Education Can Help climate change climate crisis education for sustainable development green skills sustainable education Feb 04, 2025

TL;DR

  • 2024 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the 1.5°C global warming threshold

  • Climate change impacts are intensifying globally: heatwaves, floods, droughts, and biodiversity loss

  • Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is key to climate action and resilience

  • ESD

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How to Teach for Sustainability education for sustainable development green skills green teacher training sustainability education sustainable education Jan 21, 2025

Sustainable development is key to the continued survival of humans and the planet as we know it. Without sustainability, there will be no future generations to meet nor teach.

Educators all over the world hold the enormous responsibility to educate our future world leaders, business owners and civi...

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Green Skills for Hospitality, the first qualification of its kind confederation of tourism & hospitality green skills hospitality management Jul 18, 2022

In collaboration with the Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality (CTH), Fifty Shades Greener has created the first Level 4 certificate in environmental sustainability management in hospitality. 

This is the first qualification of its kind to be regulated as an official qualification on the Ofqual f...

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Irish chef first person to complete the Environmental Sustainability Management in Hospitality
Irish Chef becomes the first qualified Green Manager worldwide carbon emissions confederation of tourism and hospitality cth energy reduction enviromental sustainability management in hospitality environmental education environmental impact environmental management in hospitality environmental sustainability food waste framework of education green manager green skills irish hospitality irish hotel level 4 level 6 ofqual rose hotel tralee uk hospitality upskill May 03, 2022

Odran Lucey, executive chef at the Rose Hotel in Tralee, Ireland, has become the first person in the world to successfully complete a brand-new qualification for Environmental Sustainability Management in Hospitality.

Fifty Shades Greener (FSG) and the Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality (CTH) j...

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Who We Are: Fifty Shades Greener

Sustainability with a side of sass!

At Fifty Shades Greener, we’re not your typical sustainability crowd. Here, green isn’t just a color; it’s a lifestyle, and we live it with a bit of cheek and a lot of heart. Our team, a quirky blend of lifelong greenies, seasoned educators, and fresh innovators, believes that every little bit helps and that education is the cornerstone of sustainable change.

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