Chair, because climate change is one of the most compelling issues of our day, it is essential that there be a public understanding of that and that it be cultivated at all levels in our education system.
As the Minister points out, in terms of its content, it is included in the Geography and Environmental Science part of the curriculum. So is it not perhaps appropriate to include climate change, global warming, adaptation and mitigation in the civics education part of the curriculum so that every child is, in fact, exposed to that information?