With possibly the most important decision ever to be made by humanity at Copenhagen this December, ActionAid teamed up with Queen Mary University of London to create Teach climate action!

Teach climate action! took place 19 June 2009 and saw over 60 participants, 12 speakers and five ActionAiders join together to think about how to bring climate change action into the classroom ahead of Copenhagen.

The speakers were:

• Dan Box, Journalist and winner of the RGS/IBG and BBC Journey of a Lifetime Award who spoke on his trip to the Carteret Islands in the Pacific to meet the world's first official climate refugees
• Professor Susan Buckingham, Director of Centre for Human Geography and Environmental Issues, Brunel University who talked on the gendered nature of climate change and how mitigation and adaptation strategies need to be socially and environmentally just
• Professor Ian Roberts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who enlightened us on the links between health and climate change
• Mr. Ahmed Shafeeg Moosa, from the Maldives, who explained the impact of climate change on the Maldives and how they are going carbon neutral
• Dr Victoria Johnson, New Economics Foundation who spoke on climate change and interdependence
• Dr Zoe Robinson, Course Director for Applied Environmental Science at Keele University who talked on communicating the science of climate change
• Dr Nicole Blum, Institute of Education who spoke on keeping the link between education for sustainable development and climate change
• Dr Simon Carr, Queen Mary University of London who touched on analysing climate change data
• Dr Robbie Sutton, Department of Psychology, University of Kent explained the psychological obstacles to the fight against climate change and the prospects for overcoming them
• David J. Horne, Lecturer in Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London who spoke on whether we are likely to return to the conditions of the Cretaceous period within the next century
• Peter Gingold, Executive Director of Tipping Point who higlighed some examples of art and climate change
• Professor David Lambert, Geographical Association and the Institute of Education, London who closed on the moral implications of teaching climate action