ClimateScience Clubs

What do ClimateScience Clubs do?

As a club, you will pick a “Key Climate Concern” at the start of each year or semester — “food waste” for example. You will then plan activities and events to learn about your chosen concern and its solutions, while raising awareness about it within your school or community.

What is the first thing I should do? 

Sit down with some friends who share your climate vision and discuss how best to integrate this program within your school. Some schools may have a formal application process, and some may not. It is up to you to familiarise yourself with your school’s requirements and ensure that you adhere to them.

What could our club look like? 

Membership to a ClimateScience Club is open to all students of that school. Everyone should have an equal say and all club efforts should be collaborative. When starting the club, specific positions should be assigned to ensure smooth functioning. These positions may depend on your team and school.

What are "Key Concerns"?

A Key Concern is the overarching climate/environmental theme that the club will focus on, ranging from food waste to carbon dioxide removal, clean energy, and more. At the start of each academic year (or whenever your club is initially formed), we encourage you to determine your Key Concerns.
Once your Key Concerns have been decided, the Club is ready to start planning events for the year, with the aim to raise awareness on (or maybe even solve!) the Key Concerns within their school and/or community.

Do we have to do what ClimateScience tells us? 

Not at all. ClimateScience Clubs can do whatever they want as long as they promote climate solutions and remain within the rules and regulations of their school and community. ClimateScience is here to guide and provide resources, but the specifics of how students want the clubs to function and what they want to focus on are entirely up to the Club members.

What kind of activities could we do? 

Clubs can organise any activity that adheres to school rules and the law. When your Club is officially registered you will join our Discord server where you can see what others have been working on. Clubs are also encouraged to participate in larger ClimateScience events such as the ClimateScience Olympiad, ClimateScience Explore, Climate MUNs, and Club debates. Check out our website for more info!

The ClimateScience community invites ClimateScience Clubs to all community events including exciting talks with experts, fun quizzes and games, panel discussions, debates and much more! You can find all such events .

Club initiatives are things you do to achieve your ‘Key Concerns’. This could be reducing food waste in the cafeteria, improving the biodiversity found on campus, creating a carpooling scheme or even inventing technology to affordably generate electricity from nuclear fusion. That last one may be a bit more difficult ;) If your initiatives are making a significant change, they might even end up getting noticed by your municipality and become bigger-scale projects, or be highlighted on our website & social media.

Do we need teacher supervisor?

We recommend it. Teacher Supervisors are teaching staff willing to oversee their school’s ClimateScience Club. They help their Club access resources within the school (meeting rooms, permissions, a budget, material resources etc.) while supervising the flow of events and providing guidance as needed.

What if an environment club already exists at my school? 

If you are already in the club or can join it, the club would simply need to be registered on our website, granting them access to our free resources and events. If for some reason one of these things doesn’t work (you can’t join, you don’t like the folks running it, etc.), just create a new Club :)

We understand that different schools organise clubs in different ways. You don’t have to officially register with your school in order to be a verified ClimateScience Club. You can register with, gather some friends together, get started, and then finalise with your school when it’s most suitable.

Building a team

Although everyone in ClimateScience Clubs is equal, we recommend assigning roles to members of your team.

• Volunteer Lead - The Volunteer Coordinator is in charge of expanding and staying connected with the group. They are also in charge of making sure volunteers feel respected and (most importantly) have fun!    
• Operations Lead - The Operations Manager collects thoughts and ideas of all volunteers on things like the ‘Key Concern’ and then moderates the decision-making process. They work to align the promotion of climate solutions with all club activities and are responsible for the long term strategy of your club.    
• Events Lead - This person is in charge of planning and organising events while ensuring activities run smoothly and are fun and inclusive for everyone.
• Communications Lead - The Communications Lead is in charge of all external communication, including your Club's social media accounts, reporting to ClimateScience (us) and contacting school departments, teachers, partners etc.