Enhancing climate change and sustainability education through critical and collaborative dialogue between Global South and North education communities

Citation

Fernandes Silva L, Quiroz Martinez D, Gandolfi H & Rushton E (2026) Enhancing climate change and sustainability education through critical and collaborative dialogue between Global South and North education communities. British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.70124

Abstract
First paragraph: This Special Issue was finalised at a pivotal moment in global history. We have finalised it, including the editorial, as the world was preparing for COP30 in Belém, Brazil. In this moment, we find ourselves holding a renewed sense of hope that this gathering may represent a turning point in addressing the accelerating environmental collapse that disproportionately affects vulnerable communities. At the same time, 2025 also witnessed the alarming rise of groups who deny climate change despite overwhelming empirical evidence (Binns, 2025). These contradictory forces reveal not only the scientific challenges before us but also the profound political, cultural and ideological questions we must confront. They call into question entrenched imaginaries—such as the fantasy of unlimited economic growth—that continue to promote unsustainable patterns of extraction, consumption and inequality.