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Resources for the Learning Circle Saving our Planet

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Resources for teachers:

 

Paris agreement: 


paris_agreement_english_.pdf

Paris_Agreement_Toolkit-Edit.pdf

22 Apr 16.pdf

List of Parties that signed the Paris Agreement 22 Apr 16.pdf

 

 

Introduction to SDG's:

 

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy:

 

Facts & Figures

 

  • One in five people still lacks access to modern electricity

  • 3 billion people rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating

  • Energy is the dominant contributor to climate change, accounting for around 60 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions

  • Reducing the carbon intensity of energy is a key objective in long-term climate goals.
     

Goal Targets
 

  • By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services

  • By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

  • By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

  • By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology

  • By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programms of support

 

Read the following document for further information on SDG7 as part of your research for Challenge 1 activities: 

7_Why-it-Matters_Goal-7_CleanEnergy_2p.pdf
 

   


 

SDG 13 Climate Action: 

 

Facts & Figures

 

Thanks to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change we know:

  • From 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85°C. To put this into perspective, for each 1 degree of temperature increase, grain yields decline by about 5 per cent. Maize, wheat and other major crops have experienced significant yield reductions at the global level of 40 megatonnes per year between 1981 and 2002 due to a warmer climate.

  • Oceans have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished and sea level has risen. From 1901 to 2010, the global average sea level rose by 19 cm as oceans expanded due to warming and ice melted. The Arctic’s sea ice extent has shrunk in every successive decade since 1979, with 1.07 million km² of ice loss every decade

  • Given current concentrations and on-going emissions of greenhouse gases, it is likely that by the end of this century, the increase in global temperature will exceed 1.5°C compared to 1850 to 1900 for all but one scenario. The world’s oceans will warm and ice melt will continue. Average sea level rise is predicted as 24 – 30cm by 2065 and 40-63cm by 2100. Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions are stopped

  • Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased by almost 50 per cent since 1990

  • Emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades

  • It is still possible, using a wide array of technological measures and changes in behaviour, to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

  • Major institutional and technological change will give a better than even chance that global warming will not exceed this threshold

 

Goal Targets 

 

  • Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

  • Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

  • Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

  • Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

  • Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

 

Read the following document for further information on SDG7 as part of your research for Challenge 2 activities 

13_Why_it_Matters_Climate_Action_letter_size_1p.pdf  

 


The Paris Agreement

 

This is a global initiative by the United Nations for countries to fight Climate Change by e.g. reducing their greenhouse gass emissions and to prevent the earth from warming 2 degrees celcius is a historical move towards a cleaner and greener planet`. An amazing 195 countries agreed to sign this agreement, 175 signed it on 22 April 2016 (Earth day) and most notably the US and China - the worlds largest contributors to greenhouse emissions - signed on the 3rd of September 2016.

paris_agreement_english_.pdf

Paris_Agreement_Toolkit-Edit.pdf

 

But Every human on earth—even the most indifferent, laziest person among us—is part of the solution.
Fortunately, there are some super easy things we can adopt into our routines that, if we all do it, will make a big difference.
 


Lazy person's guide to saving the world UN SDGs.pdf

 

 

 

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