The Sustainable Wedding Alliance has today confirmed and announced it’s official participation in the annual International Carbon Literacy Action Day – the largest climate education-and-action training day of its kind. As a result of being part of this initiative, the Sustainable Wedding Alliance is highlighting its dedication towards tackling climate change through education, lowering its organisational carbon emissions, and its commitment to inspiring its learners to working towards a zero-carbon future.
The fourth annual Carbon Literacy Action Day (CLAD) is the largest climate education-and-action training day, taking place on Thursday 14th November 2024 – coinciding with COP29 – the UN Conference of the Parties and largest climate event of the year.
The Carbon Literacy Action Day is The Carbon Literacy Project’s response to the annual COP conference, and is the first and largest mass training event of its kind, where learners from all walks of life, sectors, genders, ages and nations all around the world, will participate in and complete their days’ worth of Carbon Literacy training simultaneously, to become certified as Carbon Literate [1]. As part of their training day, learners make pledges to reduce their own carbon footprints, using their developed understanding of climate change to take action in both their personal and professional lives.
Thus, as the world prepares to witness world leaders gather at COP29 to discuss, deliberate and negotiate on climate policy, Carbon Literacy learners, all over the world, will be learning, collaborating and becoming empowered to take impactful action on climate change.
What is Carbon Literacy®?
Carbon Literacy® is relevant climate education for everyone, and equates to a day’s worth of learning and action on climate change. It is defined as, “An awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.”
Are you ready to become Carbon Literate?
The Sustainable Wedding Alliance is proud to share that it’s activity for the Action Day is to train wedding professionals, in person at Caswell House, Oxfordshire. The training day is open to all individuals and businesses within the wedding industry, and no prior sustainability knowledge is required.
Proud to be a Carbon Literacy Training Partner
The Sustainable Wedding Alliance are proud to have been delivering Carbon Literacy Training for Wedding Professionals since April 2023, and have trained over 130 people working in position across the industry, all having pledge to reduce not only their personal carbon footprint, but their organisational carbon footprint, and that of the weddings they’re involved in.
Michelle Miles, Founder & CEO at the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, commented:
I’m so proud to be part of the team delivering training on Carbon Literacy Action Day. As Sir David Attenborough said “Saving the planet is now a communications challenge.” and we’re humbled to be amongst the organisations working industry wide to drive change, to educate, inform and help people take action”
Phil Korbel, Co-Founder and Director of Advocacy at The Carbon Literacy Project, said:
“It’s all vey well talking about global warming – but without action that’s just so much hot air. Carbon Literacy is about mobilising people at scale to do their best climate thing, moving whole workforces and communities to embed impactful climate action into their day-to day-lives. This year saw us crest the 100,000 certified learner mark and within that huge number we see people from all walks of life stepping up to put their energy and talent to moving the climate dial. The Carbon Literacy Action Day condenses this phenomenon into one exciting day that brings our whole movement together during COP29 for the world to see that we do indeed bring ’climate action where you are.”