Education and school safety

More than 1,200 Colorado students have graduated with a seal demonstrating their climate awareness. The idea is spreading to other states

A group of students at the Chiba University of Commerce has created a disaster preparedness card game whose name roughly translates as "Think Fast! Disaster Preparedness Match".

It began as an alphabet a disaster management officer made for his toddler. Now it's in government classrooms across Maharashtra, teaching children words like evacuation and tsunami warning.

It began as an alphabet a disaster management officer made for his toddler. Now it's in government classrooms across Maharashtra, teaching children words like evacuation and tsunami warning.

This evaluation of IRC's Climate Resilient Education Systems Trial (CREST) pilot in northern Kenya looks at what happens when parametric insurance meets education, and offers practical lessons for others looking to follow.

In late 2025, typhoons damaged thousands of schools in Viet Nam, disrupting learning for millions. UNESCO and the Ministry of Education and Training helped communities in Cao Bang and Lang Son restore schools and prepare for future emergencies.

This report examines how extreme heat affects students, educators, families, and school systems and provides practical, evidence-informed guidance grounded in psychological science to help school communities respond.

This paper examines the relationship between climate risks and education through a systems lens, combining evidence on impacts with an analysis of policy frameworks and implementation constraints.

This snapshot examines climate-related school disruptions in 2025, finding that at least 171 million students from pre-primary to upper secondary education experienced disruption across 106 countries and territories.

Ethical preparedness requires communities to recognise vulnerability beforehand. Ethical leadership must move beyond the actions of individual leaders and become embedded within the culture and practices of organisations and communities.

Storms, floods, and heatwaves most common climate hazards causing school closures, class suspensions, and other education interruptions

This review examines school disaster resilience assessment tools published between 2015 and 2024. Existing tools address structural, non-structural and functional resilience, but often overlook psychosocial resilience and local context adaptation.

This study examines associations between education and climate change knowledge, awareness, and adaptive actions using 11,568 observations from the 2016 and 2022 waves of Nepal's National Climate Change Impact Survey.

As climate hazards intensify, conventional coping measures alone can no longer ensure safe, conducive learning environments. Schools now need innovative, climate-resilient solutions that ensure continuity of education during extreme summer temperatures.

As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farming.

Extreme heat, smoke, floods, and storms are disrupting education across the country.

The report presents a disaster risk assessment of 75 public schools in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The study analyzes schools’ exposure to climate-related hazards and identifies priority areas for resilience-building measures.

The report presents a rapid diagnostic of school infrastructure in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, developed in the aftermath of the severe floods that affected the state in 2024

The report presents a comprehensive disaster risk assessment of school infrastructure in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

When classrooms become overheated or outdoor recess gets canceled, students struggle to focus and learn. Excessive heat impairs cognitive performance, putting students who need extra academic support during the summer at an even greater disadvantage.

It’s important to recognize that many schools are underprepared to carry out their days in extreme heat, without the physical infrastructure or planning to keep students and educators comfortable and safe in the classroom or outside on school grounds.

This policy brief provides a first entry point for governments who have endorsed or are implementing aspects of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) to identify potential financial resources they can access, and how to secure them.

Heat Smart Schools is a guidance framework by CDRI to help schools adapt to rising extreme heat risks. With over two billion children projected to face frequent heatwaves by 2050, the document emphasizes that heat threatens health, learning, and equity.

This report aims to support National Adaptation Plan (NAP) teams to consider the education sector in the NAP process.

This guidance note aims to support education ministries in engaging effectively throughout the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process.

Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside classrooms.

On 29 April 2026, Vanuatu marked its first national observance of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes, bringing together partners to strengthen earthquake preparedness and disaster resilience.

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen) in collaboration with Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC), held a Disaster Safety Education Unit (SPAB) and Psychosocial Support Training.

This article investigates the state of resilience of academic institutions in the Southeastern United States prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Teacher’s Pack supports the use of the Stop Disasters online game as a practical way to introduce disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience in the classroom.

2025 marked a year of exceptional growth for the Stop Disasters game.

This policy brief summarises the results and discusses the policy implications of an assessment the number of schools and students at risk of rising temperatures in 2050 across 13 OECD countries and economies.

This technical paper develops a methodology to assess the number of schools and students at risk of rising temperatures in 2050 across 13 OECD countries and economies.

This brief outlines three key impact pathways: damage to school infrastructure, effects on children's health, and impact to household livelihoods.

This brief presents findings from a global systematic review examining how climate change affects primary and secondary education across low-, middle- and high-income countries.

This policy brief examines how exposure to climate shocks in early life has distinct and often persistent effects on educational outcomes and implications for life-time earnings.

Early and sustained engagement with DRR knowledge and opportunities is essential to nurturing future professionals who will carry forward the principles of risk-informed development and community safety.