Why Take Part in the Challenge?
- Transform your school into a more sustainable, creative, and caring place to learn.
- Design projects that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 13: Climate Action.
- Link eco-projects with your GSL journey and the Climate Action SDG Award.
- Foster collaboration between students and teachers to make a measurable difference.
Become part of a global community of young leaders driving climate action and shaping a better future!
The Challenge
Following our Ask the Expert: Eco Edd — How to Turn Your School Green session (click here to watch), every GSL Team is invited to submit a Green School Pledge.
This pledge is your Team’s commitment to take one clear, achievable action in early 2026 to help make your school more sustainable.
Your Pledge must be achievable, realistic and based on an issue you have noticed in your own school. It will be led by students and can be part of your GSL project or it can be separate.
Eco Edd will personally read all submissions.
A selection of pledges will be shared across the GSL community to inspire others.
One pledge will receive £100 micro-finance to help bring the idea to life, and one school will receive a signed copy of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Greener School.
Please use the Submission Form to submit your Team’s pledge by 18th January 2026. Don’t wait to get started!
EcoEdd
Edd Moore, also known as Eco Edd, is an inspiring educator with over a decade of experience, both in the UK and internationally, in promoting sustainability in education. Edd helps schools, trusts, and organisations bring climate action into the heart of learning to empower the next generation of changemakers.
As Sustainability Lead at Damers First School, Edd supported students to achieve five Eco-Schools Green Flag Awards with Distinction. He was Curriculum Coordinator at the Green School Bali and he has worked with organisations including Surfers Against Sewage, Keep Britain Tidy, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, and the DfE Climate Ambassadors Programme. Edd is also the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Greener School, a practical handbook filled with creative ways to bring sustainability to life in schools, with a foreword by Dr Jane Goodall DBE.
Edd is also the author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Greener School, a practical handbook filled with creative ways to bring sustainability to life in schools, with a foreword by Dr Jane Goodall DBE. Although written for teachers, many of the ideas can be used by Global Social Leaders to create lasting change in their own schools and communities.
Edd will personally review all the GSL Team’s Green School Pledges. He will select one project to receive £100 micro-finance to invest in their idea and one school to receive a signed copy of his book.
