Survey open January - March 2026!
Get your students involved in the RMetS Climate Literacy Survey 2026!
Why?
Climate education is a vital driver of climate action, and is linked to the Paris Agreement, the COP process and future PISA education benchmarks.
By collecting data annually, we hope to build on our existing evidence of the state of climate literacy amongst school leavers in the UK and Crown Dependencies by:
- Identifying regional and other variations in school leavers’ understanding of climate change and its impacts.
- Tracking the impact of changing curricula and other education policies or national scale interventions on the climate literacy of school leavers.
In England, participating in the Climate Literacy Survey could form part of your school’s Climate Action Plan.
We hope to be able to offer free, online teacher CPD to schools who contribute to data collection in 2026, including evidence collected from the survey.
What?
- The survey is quick, taking 5-8 minutes to complete.
- Surveys should be completed individually and in school time. Students will need to have access to a device and be connected to the internet to participate.
- There are 4 sections:
- Section 1 : ‘About you’. A few questions about the participant.
- Section 2 : ‘About your school’. A few questions about your school. Teachers should provide the school’s postcode.
- Section 3 : Core questions. Every participant will be asked these 5 climate questions.
- Section 4 : Randomly assigned questions. 5 questions will be randomly assigned to the participant.
- No individual results will be fed back to participants or schools. Please stress to students that there is nothing to be gained by looking up answers or copying others’ responses.
Who?
The Climate Literacy Survey (CLS) is for secondary school leavers:
- England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man – Year 11
- Northern Ireland – Year 12
- Scotland – S4
Data from other year groups will not be analysed.
When?
The survey is open from 1st January – 31st March 2026.
Rules
If these rules are not followed data will not be included in analysis as it will not pass the data cleaning process.
The survey MUST:
- Be completed online in school time.
- Be completed individually, but within a class group setting, preferably a mixed ability, mixed subject class such as a tutor/ form group rather than an eco club. The survey is not curriculum linked or dependent in any way.
- Be completed by the correct age group.
