GEOGRAPHIC VULNERABILITY OF MOZAMBIQUE AND ITS EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

The article aims to understand Mozambique's geographic vulnerability to climate change, considering the challenges related to rapid population growth and disorderly urbanization as factors that contribute to increasing its fragility, especially in relation to educational aspects. It is characterized as exploratory qualitative research and is based on critical-documentary analysis. The data indicates that, in the period from 1983 to 2023, Mozambique was impacted by more than 26 tropical cyclones, resulting in 6,249,273 people affected, 3,004 injured and 1,352 deaths. The study concludes that it is possible to reduce the consequences of these events through coordinated actions between different sectors and greater internal supervision. Among the alternatives, educational policies and reforms are recommended with the incorporation, into the school curriculum, of themes such as resilience, adaptation, resistance and surveillance, aiming to minimize the damage caused by climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]