STUDENTS will be encouraged to find solutions to global warming with the launch of a new environmental school curriculum in Melbourne.

The Living in 2030: An Experiment in Survival curriculum is a set of educational resources that invites students to imagine a world 20 years from now where environmental solutions have not yet been found to pressing issues including global warming.

Students must then find solutions to the problems.

Steve Cook, campus principal at Williamstown High School which has trialled the education resource, said students had responded with optimism and creativity to the program.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the patron of curriculum developer the Global Green Plan Foundation, and Federal Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong will launch the initiative