On 13 November, we’re celebrating an important milestone during the fifth annual global Carbon Literacy Action Day, as we reach 2002 Carbon Literacy learners who have successfully completed our training. On the day we are excited to be working with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) focusing on how their staff connect with the communities they serve to create more opportunities for positive action on climate and nature.
The Carbon Literacy Project’s Action Day is a movement that sees the largest number of people, from all corners of the globe, simultaneously complete Carbon Literacy training in a single day. It is the world’s largest climate education and action training event. Carbon Literacy training was recognised in 2021 by the United Nations as one of the top 100 global transformative action programs with the potential for significant impact.
In Wales, we’re working towards a positive ‘tipping point’ of over 25% of organisations having Carbon Literate staff with their individual pledges causing ripples of influence across workplaces, communities, and supply chains.
We became the official partner for the Carbon Literacy Project in Wales in 2017, when we delivered our first Carbon Literacy course. Since then, we have trained over 354 organisations across the private, public and voluntary sectors in Carbon Literacy, with 4004 individual pledges for action.
The headline result of this is an *estimated average carbon reduction of 3.6 tonnes of CO2 per learner and £1,000 of cost savings per year. For our programme to date this is now 7,207 tonnes of CO2 and £4 million of cost savings, all helping our planet and our pockets during these tough times. There are also many more impacts around improved health, employability, cross-team working, and service improvements.
Louise Cartwright, Head of Training and Advice said:
“We’re delighted to announce that we have surpassed the ‘2000 certified’ in Carbon Literacy mark. Congratulations to the most recent graduates and many thanks to all learners and the Natural Resource Wales and Trivallis Housing Association Training Team, for helping us to reach our certified learners’ target!”
Taking part in Carbon Literacy Action Day 2025 reflects Cynnal Cymru’s commitment to global climate responsibility. We view Carbon Literacy as an essential step toward embedding climate education and action throughout organisations in Wales as we all seek to deliver a fairer and greener future for current and future generations
Find out more about our training where we’ll help you to understand what you can do to take action on climate change.
*Estimations are based on figures from the Carbon Literacy Project.
