How to Get Your
Student Government
and School Board to
Pass a Climate
Resolution (and why
they should!)
Presented by Kate Roney, Ella Crenshaw, and Nancy Metzger-Carter from Schools for Climate Action
Join a non-partisan, grassroots, youth-adult campaign with a mission to empower schools to speak up for climate action. We advocate for elected officials to to combat the climate crisis in order to protect current and future generations.
We help school boards, student councils, school environmental clubs, PTA's, teachers' unions, and school support organizations to pass resolutions that do 3 things:
1. Drive a paradigm shift so people recognize climate change as a generational justice and equity issue.
2. Clearly articulate the political will for all elected leaders, especially Members of Congress, to support or enact common-sense climate policies (such as carbon pricing, 100% clean energy policies, green infrastructure investments, and just transition plans).
3. Celebrate and expand school district responses to climate change.
Kate Roney
Kate will be speaking for Schools for Climate Action. She can lead a breakout session and speak on the Youth Panel. They will have a table for information and sign ups.
Kate Roney is a Junior at Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, CA. Kate is part of the Student Sustainability Leaders at SA, as well as a youth volunteer and member of Schools For Climate Action’s core team. She accredits her love for the environment and her dedication to preserving our planet to her father John Roney (Park Manager at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in CA), as well as her aunt and uncle Richard Dale and Caitlin Cornwall (Co-Directors of the Sonoma Ecology Center) who have helped her realize the necessity and value of our natural resources. This winter Kate traveled to Eleuthera, Bahamas where she sailed for ten days and gained an inside perspective on coral bleaching and the effects of large corporations on the climate crisis. Kate traveled to DC in March to meet with Members of Congress and to help hand deliver over 60 signed S4CA resolutions to all 535 members. She plans to work closely with her school, community, and country to create a safe and equitable future for all in the last year of her high school.