FT Schools competition: climate change

University students are invited to enter the joint FT and Royal Geographical Society competition on climate transform and sustainability. 

Individuals finding out A stage geography or the equivalent have right up until September thirty to produce an essay of up to one,000 phrases or an ArcGIS StoryMap, picking and analysing knowledge on sustainability and climate transform to explain to the geographical at the rear of it. 

Entries ought to be primarily based about the Cop-26 2021 aims ‘to raise climate ambition, create resilience and lessen emissions’ and ought to take into consideration a variety of scales — from community to global. 

The judges will look for entries supported by proof, making a very clear argument and with referenced sources of information and knowledge. The ideal will be published by the FT and the RGS. 

Total details and an entry type are readily available on the RGS web page. 

Applicants are inspired to get their schools to indicator up for the FT’s totally free schools access programme, and might draw inspiration from content in the FT this kind of as this assortment on climate transform and this on sustainability.