Climate change education (CCE) in informal workplaces: Unearthing possibilities and limitations for SDG 13 actualization

In recent years, one major problem confronting the human race that seems to have defied the myriad of solutions deployed to combat it is the raging and raving issue of climate change. As worrisome as the issue is, there have been arguments for intensification of climate change education as the panacea for this conundrum. While CCE has been restricted to schools and formal workplaces, we opine that this is limiting and could prove counterproductive as there is the need to avail workers in such settings the opportunity of gaining climate education. This represents the thrust of this paper as we intend to evaluate the prospects of this endeavor vis-a-vis its challenges with a view to appraise its implications for SDG 13. Taking into cognizance the huge population of the informal sector, excluding them from the benefits of CCE will be tantamount to a catastrophe as these army of employees if enlightened on proper climate conservative practices can help the nation win the war against climatic dysfunctionalities. Adopting a desktop research method and drawing data from secondary data sources such as journal papers, book chapters, policy briefs and monograph articles among other outlets, we observed that there is low deployment of CCE to the informal sector. Hence, our admonition to the government on the need to ensure the ministry of information through the national orientation agency and all relevant stakeholders draw up CCE education programs specifically for this segment while CCE literature be disseminated to workers in this category.