ABSTRACT
To create awareness about climate change, most governments employ a top-down approach, which is to provide as much information about climate change as possible, and hope that in doing so, people might also take action for climate change. However, this is not true. While most climate change education policy has been successful in creating awareness, it does not encourage people to take action for climate change. In terms of climate change education programmes, there seems to be two key movements; top-down approach (government-initiated programmes) and bottom-up approach (initiatives by the people from the ground). This chapter discusses the pros and cons for both approaches and examines whether an integration of both approaches is more beneficial. Using the Grassroots approach model, the author argues that the Grassroots Organisations being nearer to the people are in a better position to implement climate change education programmes.
