EDUCATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BUILDING OF CAPACITIES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Attention to the problem of climate change in economic, social and cultural processes is recognized as a necessity for the island states and is thus established in the State Plan for confronting climate change in Cuba (Task Life). The systematization of positive experiences and good practices related to the successive implementations of editions of the course "Education for climate change", designed for education professionals and updated as a research task of different research projects associated with national programs of the Ministry of Education; They allow valid generalizations to be made based on the creation of capacities for local development in prioritized municipalities in the province of Villa Clara. The present work has as objectives: to offer useful theoretical considerations for education for climate change in the creation of capacities for lo-cal development, to suggest contents that become learning challenges and to socialize the main results and impacts of a distance course that , as a response to the measures to counteract the risk of infection by COVID-19, constitutes a modest contribution to local development, from a socio-cultural perspective, and to the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustai-nable Development Goals.