Trainer Month: Adaptation and Mitigation in Carbon Literacy

Throughout October we'll be gathering online for 'Trainer Tuesdays', to share best practice and top-tips from experienced Carbon Literacy Trainers (CLT), Consultants (CLC) and members of The Carbon Literacy Project team.  We'll hear from Co-founder and Director of External relations at the Project, Phil Korbel, experienced trainers and the Project's Course Accreditation lead, Nicole Baldwin on how to successfully integrate adaptation material in your courses.

This will be a longer interactive session giving you chance to reflect and ask questions. We are also excited to be joined by representatives from Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) and Verture, to share their research and resources.

In this session we'll be hearing from trainers tackling adaptation and climate resilience in their courses, and how these issues intersect with the CL Standard. We'll be thinking about the following questions -

• What are the trade-offs re timings & meeting the Carbon Literacy Standard?
• How do these issues intersect with carbon emissions?
• How to have productive conversations?
• How to distinguish between adaptation and mitigation

After the event, we will compile the resources and tips shared into a handout for attendees.

This event is free of charge for Carbon Literacy Consultants (CLC) and Carbon Literacy Trainers (CLT)

Tickets for Carbon Literacy Facilitators (CLF), informal trainers or those interested in delivering Carbon Literacy are £10/15 per Trainer Month event or £30 for access to all events in this series.

If you're unsure of your trainer certification status please get in touch with the Trainer Network Team at clt@carbonliteracy.com.

👋 Meet our speakers 

Phil Korbel
Director for External Relations, The Carbon Literacy Project 

Phil is a long-standing social entrepreneur, broadcaster and community activist based in Manchester. He wants to leave his children ‘a future, not an apology’.

Phil has been a long-time activist for sustainable development, moving from local work with Friends of the Earth in the 1980s to riding a tandem back from Sydney raising awareness of rainforest conservation in 1990. Having studied law at Manchester Polytechnic, Phil enjoyed a successful career in radio working as a presenter and producer of features and documentaries for BBC Network Radio and working for programmes as diverse as You and Yours and Mark Radcliffe. One of his proudest moments remains giving the first-ever radio airplay to the Inspiral Carpets. Between making programmes Phil delivered media training to a wide range of national and local clients, from the RSPB to Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.

Isabelle Baverstock 

Senior Policy and Programme Officer at the Greater London Authority (CLT)

Isabelle leads the GLA's Climate Literacy programme. An accredited Carbon Literacy Trainer with almost four years' experience delivering Carbon Literacy training, she has trained staff across local government, the GLA and London Stadium.

At the GLA, Isabelle manages and continuously develops the organisation's certified ‘Climate Literacy’ course, which aims to give equal emphasis to climate adaptation and carbon reduction. She supports a network of 20 volunteer facilitators and has helped to expand the reach of the training across the organisation. To date, almost 500 staff have been trained, including participants from across the wider GLA Group.Working closely with colleagues in the GLA's climate adaptation team, Isabelle continues to evolve the course to strengthen its focus on climate adaptation whilst still meeting the Carbon Literacy Standard.

In this session, Isabelle will share practical examples from the GLA's approach, including how adaptation has been integrated into training materials, the evidence form, pledges and the discussions that emerge when adaptation is explored alongside carbon reduction.

Jamie Joyce

Climate Change Project Manager at the Argyll Countryside Trust & Carbon Literacy Consultant (CLC)

Jamie is a Climate Change Project Manager at the Argyll Countryside Trust, a role with a focus on climate change education and engagement. Within his capacity as Manager and certified Carbon Literacy Training Designer/Deliverer, Jamie has created and developed food waste reduction schemes, upcycling programmes, and sustainable transport initiatives with his local community and business networks. All this work enables the delivery of his Carbon Literacy training to appreciate the real-world opportunities and barriers to act on climate change both as an individual and as part of a wider group.

Jamie has delivered Carbon Literacy training to a wide variety of sectors and has a particular interest in promoting climate change education in rural communities, businesses, and organisations.

Jamie has a BSc (Hons) from the Open University with a focus on Environment and Geography. In addition, Jamie has several years’ experience and a post graduate qualification in Community Learning and Reflective Practice.

Sadhbh Sheeran

Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change MACC

Sadhbh manages the England region’s delivery of the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub at the Greater London Authority, coordinating strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and cross-regional collaboration to strengthen resilience to climate impacts across the UK. Her work includes developing decision-support tools, policy guidance, and training to advance climate adaptation at scale.

Previously, Sadhbh worked as a consultant in Climate and Sustainability at Arup, where she delivered climate risk assessments for critical infrastructure, decarbonisation strategies for public sector clients, and frameworks for integrating NbS into urban planning. She is passionate about driving transformative adaptation that addresses vulnerability and delivers positive impact for communities.

Mary Collacott  

Verture

Mary is a learning facilitator, designer and researcher with over ten years’ experience, specialising in participatory online approaches to education for sustainability, equity and social justice. She is currently Training Programme Manager at Verture – the climate resilience charity.

She has a degree in Environmental Education, a PGCE in Primary Education and a Masters in Outdoor, Environmental and Sustainability Education. Her research interests include teaching and learning for climate justice; the integration of diverse ways of knowing into understandings of sustainability; and examining transformative approaches to learning. Mary is committed to challenging work and education practices to create a fairer system for all: promoting ethically grounded learning experiences for the well-being of people and planet.

As the UK’s only charity solely dedicated to climate resilience, Verture supports a fairer, more climate ready future for all. Drawing on over 30 years of practice in climate adaptation and resilience across the UK, their training is rooted in real insights from communities, regions, and institutions navigating change. They use participatory, facilitated learning that prioritises peer reflection, shared problem solving and honest engagement with uncertainty and complexity.