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Films as a Tool in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Towards Raising an Environmentally-conscious Generation in India
1.0 The Background
The importance of educating our children and youth in ensuring a sustainable future for all of us cannot be stressed enough. How else is a future generation of informed, aware, and environmentally-conscious citizens to be created if not through effective educational tools for our children and youth? The Indian Constitution states that it is the responsibility of every citizen to protect the environment. Underscoring the importance of environmental education, in 2003, a Supreme Court judgement made the teaching of environmental studies mandatory for all levels of formal education. Promoting environmental educational tools on a larger platform, in its 57th meeting in December 2002, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005- 2014 (DESD) 'emphasising that education is an indispensable element for achieving sustainable development'.
Placed in this context, Centre for Environment Communication has been consistently designing and conducting innovative environmental communication programmes employing various media such as films, on-ground communication, live demonstrations, interactive modules, communication via print and social media etc. These seminal programmes promote behaviour change in children and youth towards environmental sustainability via CEC’s five thematic centres.
2.0 Communicating Environment to Children
Children are naturally curious. They are forever full of the what, why, when, where and how of the world around them as most things are a new experience for them. But living as we are in cities where the connect with Nature is limited and oftentimes, children see nothing of it, their curiosity about Nature is stunted. Since they see little of it, they question little and consequently, understand even less about the how our natural ecosystem and our very existence are intertwined. Therefore, there is a need to create for them situations where they can feel the natural experiences in a tactile and emotive way, in a way that their curiosity is piqued. That will be the doorway to establishing a life-long connects with Nature. So, how is this curiosity about Nature to be piqued in the midst of the urban jungle?
3.0 Using Films as a Tool for ESD
CEC believes, based on its multiple experiences, that effectively employing evocative Nature films is a very powerful and impactful tool for ESD. Children are quick to grasp a situation and are able to very quickly think through and work towards solutions. So introducing them to the infinite wonders of nature via films, and thus leading them on to understand the environmental challenges today are a sure way of nurturing environmentally-conscious future citizens.
Films are the most impactful audio-visual medium that sends subliminal messages while creating the atmosphere wherein all senses are immersed in the experience, eliciting an emotional response. A film is thus a magical tool to raise eco-awareness in children. It captures stark realities in a manner that jolts us out of our sense of complacency. The series of film festivals organised by CEC has shown that there is perhaps no better way than films to impress upon our children that “environment” is not a “boring” subject but an interactive living eco-system that responds to our participation in ways that we can touch and see, every day.
CEC has organised a series of film festivals across schools and institutions for children and youth in Delhi and NCR, engaging more than 2000 children and youth in its various events and ongoing programmes. It has also launched its flagship programme, Green Buddies Film Festival, to engage children and youth on a sustained basis towards positive environmental action on a larger platform.
4.0 CEC Initiatives employing Films as ESD Tools: In Brief
I. Green Hub Festival 2016 Celebrating Northeast
Presented by: North East Network, Dusty Foot Production, and Centre for Environment Communication
Date: May 13-15, 2016
Venue: Green Hub, Jonak, Kumargaon, Tezpur, Assam
ACTIVITIES:
Films & Makers; Anthology of Shots; In Conversation; Expert Talks & Discussions; Musical Nite & Delightful Cuisine
Films being screened: Manas - Return of the Giants; Walking with the Wolves; Multiple Screening of Films by Green Hub Fellows from different parts of the Northeast.
II. THE ELEPHANT FESTIVAL – Celebrating World Wildlife Day, March 3, 2016
Participants: Children and youth from Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre, Tughlakabad and all its centres in Delhi; PVR Nest: NGO Vidya Foundation
Organised by: Centre for Environment Communication (CEC), Prayas Institute for Juvenile Justice and Adoptionscentrum
Partners: The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, The International Elephant Film Festival, PVR Nest, Green Future Foundation, Wildlife SOS and Magic Bus; in association with United Nations and CITES to celebrate the World Wildlife Day, March 3, 2016.
Activities: Film screenings; interactive workshop; Quiz and painting competition; Animal Pictionary; On the spot skit presentation on festival theme.
Films screened - 6: The Jungle Gang meets the Elephant by Krishnendu Bose; Elephant Talk 2015: Asian Elephants in the Wild; Elephants Never Forget; On the Right Track, and Living with Giants.
Workshop theme: Understanding the role of the Elephant in the eco-system; Conserving the Elephant: Challenges and solutions
Skit theme: Act for the Elephant
III. CEC CLIMATECONNECT Film Festival in Delhi and NCR
Classes: VII, VIII, IX, X and XI
No. of Activities: 10
Participating Schools: TSMS Faridabad, Lotus Valley School Noida, DPS Gautam Buddh Nagar and Tagore International School
Activities: Film screening/Session with Filmmakers, Interactive Panel Discussions, Expert Talks, A Reality Show, A Climate Change presentation by children of invited schools (one speaker per school – 5 minutes only), A filmmaking competition, a photo exhibition, An Al Gore presentation, A Snake and Ladder Climate Change Game, A Solar Power Cooker Live Demonstration.
Films Screened: Melting Paradise by Vijay Bedi, The Final Tide by Vikram Mishra, Carbon Merchants by Aaradhana Kohli Kapur and Shelter
Expert Talk and Discussion Topics
- Impact on Earth of a One-Degree Rise in Temperature
- Climate Change: Political Discourses
- Climate Change and Me: How I Am Connected to Climate Change
IV. CLIMA FILM FEST
Partners: United Nations Foundation, Good Relations India, Panos South Asia, CPREEC and M.O.P. Vaishnav College and Ennovate Global - CEC partner
In the run-up to the Secretary General Climate Summit at UN headquarters on September 23, Clima Film Fest ‘14 aimed at creating maximum buzz about the impacts of climate change on our lives. The objective of the festival was to tell people through the medium of films and discourses with the experts about what exactly is climate change, how it is impacting our lives and how one can adapt to it. The festival was also very important in the context of the recent release of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Reports. A collection of compelling stories across India, highlighting evidences of the real impacts of and adaptations to climate change, underscored the spectacular festival.
Issues Explored
- Impact of climate change on natural resource-based livelihood in rural India.
- Climate change and rising sea levels in the Sunderbans.
- Local climate change impacts in Sunderbans in a participatory video.
- Landfill gas cleaning and flaring technology.
- India: Towards a clean and energy-efficient economy.
- Reducing Emissions from deforestation and degradation.
- Clean and energy-efficient technology for the small-scale glass industry.
- Govt-citizen partnership for sustainable cities.
- Towards sustainable habitats by using depleting natural resources to the benefits of all.
- Artificial glaciers to beat the drought in high-altitude areas.
- Impact on Earth of a one-degree rise in temperature.
- Small scale sustainable renewable energy programmes.
- Conservation of precious water resources such as wetlands.
- The ground reality of climate change and the global scenario.
Expert Discussion Session Topics
- Climate Change and the Coasts
- Communicating Climate Change: A Panel Discussion on Climate Change and Media
- Adaptation to Climate Change for the State of Tamil Nadu
- Climate Change and Chennai City
Films Screened
Missing, Where is my Home and The Forest Beautiful by Krishnendu Bose; are we ready to dig in by Saransh Sugandh; Negotiating Justice and Tales Of Gorakhpur: Path Towards A Climate-Resilient Future by Rishu Nigam; Redemption - A Redd + Story From India by Ahona Dutta Gupta; Ring The Changes by Kanishka Singh; Breathe Easy by Aditi Banerjee; Building For A Greener World by Rita Banerji; Ladakh's Artificial Glaciers by Rajendra Srivathsa Kondapalli; Strange Days On Planet Earth - The One Degree Factor by Rob Whittlesey; Lighter Burden, Brighter Future by Sanjay Barnela; Melting Paradise Ajay and Vijay Bedi; Mean Sea Level and Don’t Cut My Head Off by Pradip Saha
V. COMING SOON: CEC FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE - GREEN BUDDIES FILM FESTIVAL
Green Buddies Film Festival is India’s first niche green film festival exclusively for children and youth. It is a unique green festival which provides a stage for the voices of children and youth to be heard on the subject of the environment. For those who are already “green buddies” with the environment, this festival will be a unique opportunity to showcase their efforts via films and other environmental communication tools and formats; for those who are yet to understand the importance of conserving the environment, the festival will be an awakening, an initiation into the subject. The festival is an exclusive Flagship Initiative of the Centre for Environment Communication (CEC).
5.0 About Centre for Environment Communication (CEC)
Centre for Environment Communication (CEC) is committed to raising awareness among children, youth, and adults proactively on environmental issues and promoting action to concretise the awareness. Through a consistent and sustained call for awareness and action, CEC aims to gradually engender behaviour change, at large, towards the environment and make its conservation a part of our daily concerns towards creating a good life. CEC has partnered with UNICEF, DELHI GOVERNMENT, JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FILM FESTIVAL, PVR NEST for its various projects. CEC also received support from leading environmental organisations such as Climate Reality and Connect4Climate, University of Stirling, the UK for its various programmes.
Mission: Communicating for Creating Sustainable Societies
Thematic Centres: CEC has established five thematic centres: Climate Change Communication Centre (C4); Biodiversity Communication Centre (BCC); Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Communication Centre (WASHCC); Green Films Centre (GFC), and Corporate Employees Engagement Centre (CEEC)} which strategically spotlight its primary areas of engagement. The Centres seek to influence social, economic and instrumental change on environmental issues at the level of the society and consequently, catalyse appropriate policy interventions by the government.
Media coverage: CEC events have received wide coverage in a national dailies and magazines such as The Hindustan Times, the Times of India, The Hindu, Business Standard, Tribune, Rajasthan Patrika, Jagran, NewsX, and the UN World Wildlife Day events platform, among others.
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COP22: ARE YOU LISTENING TO OUR VOICES?
Collective efforts for far-reaching changes (climate change) are possible and realistic should politicians choose to listen to the voice of their young people.
Students at New Delhi at another interaction with with Prof Mathew Hibberd
The 22nd United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP22 marks the 22nd yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21). Post the historic CoP21 held in Paris on November 30, 2015, India became the 62nd country to ratify the Paris deal with 14 more countries committing to ratify the deal before the end of 2016. With the ratification, “India has to implement an array of standards in its energy production and emission monitoring. India had also linked the ratification of the treaty to its admission to the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Getting the agreement implemented is a key strategic objective that President Barack Obama has set for himself before he leaves office in less than four months.” (The Hindu, October 2, 2016).
Against such a backdrop, as the world waits for the ratification from other countries so that the Agreement meets the need of slightly more than 3 percentage points to reach the 55 per cent threshold, it is pertinent to ask where does youth stand, against such a backdrop, in their understanding and perception of the climate issues. Our study, “ClimateAction: Youth Voices – A Four Nation Report” conducted across four nations, two Asian and two European — India, Vietnam, Italy and the UK — by the University of Stirling, Scotland and Centre for Environment Communication, New Delhi brings into sharp focus the pressing need to engage the youth into climate change talks to understand and platform their ideas, expectations and solutions to a cleaner climate.
The now worldwide Divestment Campaign is a powerful example of youth action for a clean climate. The divestment campaign which began on US college campuses in 2011 slowly grew into a nationwide divestment campaign with more than 400 US colleges and universities joining in. To quote the Guardian: “The speed at which the fossil fuel divestment campaign is growing seems to have rattled its opponents in the coal and oil lobbies.” So why not involve more and more youth to create a cleaner climate? What do the young people across the four nations involved in our study think about climate change?
Students at New Delhi interact with Prof Mathew Hibberd
The ClimateAction: Youth Voices – Four Nation Report finds out that today’s youth believes they will inherit a deteriorating environmental situation from older generations, with some arguing that the young generation will be required to pay a greater price for profligacy of earlier generations. There was, however, uneven knowledge of key events relating to climate change. For example, some of our focus group members had not heard about the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (CoP) in Paris in November 2015. Only a small minority of focus group participants were actively involved in climate change campaigns. There was clear support for focus group findings that young people lack resources to take effective action; do not practice daily rituals that might be more eco-friendly; and that the lack of immediacy means that relevance of climate change to daily lives remains low.
An international binding agreement was considered vital in tackling key ecological problems of the 21st century. But many argued that when it comes to action there is still a lack of political will relating to the enforcement of climate change agreements. Youth from Europe and Asia remain pessimistic to the international community’s ability to implement such an agreement.
Youth look to definitive leadership and institutional support as a key ongoing requirement for climate change and look to local, national and international institutions, public and private, to provide that the stewardship and, crucially, the funding for infrastructural projects and services that can affect real environmental change. Their viewpoint came with the expectation of a substantive and viable solution at Paris, the absence of which, they said, would not only have a disastrous impact on environmental issues but would also undermine key social problems which, to their minds, have been worsened by climate change. One problem highlighted was the issue of migration where participants see a direct and causal link between mass movements of people, crop failure, extreme weather and climate change. Another pertinent issue was that of ‘free riders’ — those who seek to evade responsibility for climate change whether they are individuals or nations. Climate change is a collective issue requiring societal solutions that go beyond individual involvement.
The world’s poorest are seen to be disproportionately affected by climate change. This, paradoxically, lessens the importance of climate change among some, especially in India and Vietnam, as fighting poverty remains the key issue. There was strong support across focus groups for advanced national economies in the West, the USA, Canada, Europe, etc., to support the developing countries through financial or technical support in adopting climate change initiatives. While the UN was seen to be a key mediator in coming to a successful climate agreement, yet the dependence of its decision on the unanimity among its five permanent members — China, France, Russia, UK and USA — was seen to somewhat weaken its authority.
Youth across the four nations have come to believe that all the major institutions of our modern societies have largely failed to engage them in climate change issues, let alone to motivate and mobilise them into changing their behaviours towards more climate-conscious lifestyles. One of the prominent problems identified in this research is that common visions or mutual understandings of climate change have remained difficult to execute properly, whether one looks at international agreements or initiatives in affecting behavioural change.
It should be noted, however, that the cause for audience skepticism and pessimism found in this research is not simply due to the failure of the major institutions involved in the tackling of climate change. The story is, arguably, far more complex than lack of relevancy or a perceived lack of leadership or green-washing and so on. It relates more to deep-seated social vacuum at the macro and micro level in societies. Many people view climate change messages through ideological or social frameworks in line with their nationality, political beliefs, socio-demographic data – age (of especial importance for this study), gender, class, ethnicity, location, peer group, and so on. Climate change is tied closely to vaguer and contested notions of national, regional and local identities, cultural meanings and values and audience dissemination of texts and images. As such, climate change communications stretch beyond the realm of science, government policy and targets. As the Alliance of Religion and Conservation argues:
The emphasis on consumption, economics and policy usually fails to engage people at any deep level because it does not address the narrative, the mythological, the metaphorical or the existence of memories of past disasters and the way out (quoted in Hulme, 2009: 356).
Climate change communications, in other words, might generate much stronger impacts in communities if they speak to the reality of people’s life in a subtle, more “naturalised” way. The agreement at the Paris CoP needs to be ratified and enforced in ways that different people can understand and adopt. Key to this process are the leading industrialised countries and the leading developing nations such as BRICS. Special hope has been placed in President Obama to lead the USA and help secure success thus reinforcing his legacy as a forward-looking and progressive democratic president.
While young people are hopeful of the Paris Agreement being successfully ratified and implemented, they are also realistic enough to understand that all countries need to make major changes and sacrifices in order to help secure a better chance of limiting the damaging and pernicious impacts of climate change. Collective efforts for far-reaching changes are possible and realistic should politicians choose to listen to the voice of their young people.
SPECIAL COP22
[video: https://vimeo.com/188252140]
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Global Climate Action
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">OPINION</strong><span style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;"> </span><br />
It has been a really unprecedented year for global climate action</h3>
<p>From the Paris agreement to a new deal on another kind of greenhouse gas, the world is doing a lot to slow climate change. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/it-has-been-really-unprecedented-yea…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INFORMATIVE</strong><br />
13 SDG: Climate Action</h3>
<p>Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/13-sdg-climate-action" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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The Climate Tracker</h3>
<p><span style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">The "Climate Action Tracker" is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. </span><a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/climate-action-tracker" style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Global Climate Action trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-global-climate-actio…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Forests
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
The importance of urban forests: why money really does grow on trees</h3>
<p>Mature trees clean air, lower stress, boost happiness, reduce flood risk – and even save municipal money. So why are they cut down when cities develop – and how should the UN’s new urban agenda protect them? <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/importance-urban-forests-why-money-r…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a><br />
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Forests Provide Vital Resources to 1.3B people</h3>
<p><a href="http://connect4climate.org/infographics/forests-provide-vital-resources…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Forests trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-forests-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Water
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
How can we better value water as global shortages start to threaten economies?</h3>
<p>With water shortages exacerbating inequalities and causing damage to economies, making sure the commodity is properly valued by all is essential. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/how-can-we-better-value-water-global…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">REPORT</strong><br />
High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy</h3>
<p>A new World Bank reports finds that water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, could hinder economic growth, spur migration, and spark conflict. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/high-and-dry-climate-change-water-an…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Why Waste Water</h3>
<p>Extreme weather, including droughts and floods, will mean more uncertain water supply. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/why-waste-water#" target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Water Trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-water-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Agriculture
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">BLOG POST</strong><br />
Foster Climate-Smart Agriculture</h3>
<p>A growing global population and changing diets are driving up the demand for food. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/foster-climate-smart-agriculture" target="_blank">READ MORE</a>.</p>
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Advancing women’s land and resource rights</h3>
<p>Development practitioners know secure land rights for women are important for the well-being of rural families, whether a woman is head of her household or lives in a household headed by a man. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/advancing-women%E2%80%99s-land-and-r…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">REPORT</strong><br />
Agriculture must adopt climate-smart practices to better help poverty reduction</h3>
<p>The rapid transformation of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, such as adopting climate-smart practices, particularly to curb greenhouse gas emissions, is critical for hunger and poverty reduction, the United Nations agriculture agency said today in a new report. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/agriculture-must-adopt-climate-smart…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Livestock diversity helps cope with climate change</h3>
<p>Livestock diversity or animal genetic resources are terms used to describe the pool of 38 species of domesticated birds and mammals with more than 8 800 breeds currently used for food and agriculture. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/infographics/livestock-diversity-helps-cope-…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Agriculture trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-agriculture-trailer&…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Cities & Mobility
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<span style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">OPINION</span><br />
Two billion more people will live in cities by 2035. This could be good – or very bad</h3>
<p>Cities are like magnets. Without a better model for growth, people will still come – but they will live in awful conditions. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/two-billion-more-people-will-live-ci…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">REPORT</strong><br />
How Can We Finance the Resilient Cities of the Future?</h3>
<p>By 2030, without significant investment to improve the resilience of cities around the world, climate change may push up to 77 million urban residents into poverty. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/how-can-we-finance-resilient-cities-…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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Transit oriented development with land values</h3>
<p><a href="http://connect4climate.org/infographics/transit-oriented-development-la…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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#Film4Climate Cities And Mobility trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-cities-and-mobility-…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Young & Future Generation
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">OPINION</strong><br />
Young People Hold the Key to Mobilizing Climate Action</h3>
<p>As I look toward our planet’s future, I reflect on numerous examples from our past, in which young generations not only helped lead, but also provided the main spark that forced older decision-makers to push through change. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/young-people-hold-key-mobilizing-cli…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INITIATIVE</strong><br />
Youth4Climate</h3>
<p>This initiative celebrates the power of youth. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiatives/youth4climate" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">OPINION</strong><br />
COP22: Are you listening to our voices?</h3>
<p>Collective efforts for far-reaching changes (climate change) are possible and realistic should politicians choose to listen to the voice of their young people. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/cop22-are-you-listening-our-voi…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Fim4Climate Young & Future Generation Trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/fim4climate-young-future-generati…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Energy
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Renewables made up half of net electricity capacity added last year</h3>
<p>Experts hail rapid transformation that will see clean energy outgrow fossil fuels in the next five years - but warn UK is failing to exploit huge potential. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/renewables-made-half-net-electricity…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">REPORT</strong><br />
IEA raises its five-year renewable growth forecast as 2015 marks record year</h3>
<p>Renewables have surpassed coal last year to become the largest source of installed power capacity in the world. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/iea-raises-its-five-year-renewable-g…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Energy Outlook for 2040</h3>
<p>As the world tries to become more and more eco-friendly, we ask the question “What will energy production look like in 2040 and what is being done to make the world a greener place?" <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/energy-outlook-2040" target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">MORROCO</strong><br />
Morocco Could See 100 Percent Green Energy Use by 2050</h3>
<p>Morocco could run on 100 percent green energy by the year 2050, according to new research on the matter from Stanford University. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/morocco-could-see-100-percent-green-…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Energy trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-energy-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Health
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Air pollution more deadly in Africa than malnutrition or dirty water, study warns</h3>
<p>Annual human and economic cost of tainted air runs to 712,000 lost lives and £364bn, finds Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/air-pollution-more-deadly-africa-mal…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">REPORT</strong><br />
WHO releases country estimates on air pollution exposure and health impact</h3>
<p>A new WHO air quality model confirms that 92% of the world’s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/who-releases-country-estimates-air-p…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Climate Change Threatens Your Health</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/climate-change-threatens-y…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Health trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-health-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Oceans
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Humanity driving 'unprecedented' marine extinction</h3>
<p>Report comparing past mass extinction events warns that hunting and killing of ocean’s largest species will disrupt ecosystems for millions of years. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/humanity-driving-unprecedented-marin…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
What is Marine Litter?</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/what-is-marine-litter" target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">MOROCCO</strong><br />
Road to COP22: Protectin Morocco's Coastline</h3>
<p>Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification amplify extremes of climate change. Finding a solution to minimise the impact on coastal areas has become a priority. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/road-cop22-protectin-moroccos-coastl…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Oceans trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-oceans-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Waste
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
A Sustainable Food System Could Be A Trillion-Dollar Global Windfall</h3>
<p>A new report makes a strong bottom-line case for more earth-friendly farming — and eating — practices. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/sustainable-food-system-could-be-tri…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">REPORT</strong><br />
Reducing Food Loss and Waste</h3>
<p>About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/reducing-food-loss-and-waste" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">SOLUTIONS4CLIMATE</strong><br />
BuffetGO: a solution for food waste, climate change and world hunger</h3>
<p>13% of all the US greenhouse gas emissions result from the food supply chain continues to be widely ignored. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/buffetgo" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Food loss and waste facts</h3>
<p>Every year around the globe 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted, that is a 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/infographics/food-loss-and-waste-facts" target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">MOROCCO</strong><br />
Morocco Lets Nothing Go To Waste</h3>
<p>Morocco looks at waste as a resource which can be better managed to fuel the economy and reduce environmental impacts. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/morocco-lets-nothing-go-waste" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Waste trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-waste-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Education
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">OPINION</strong><br />
Our kids learn their ABCs in school. But why not climate change?</h3>
<p>The classroom is the right place to start educating our citizens about the greatest challenge they will face. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/our-kids-learn-their-abcs-school-why…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INITIATIVE</strong><br />
#Teach4Climate Back to School 2016 Campaign</h3>
<p>Teaching young people about climate change – its causes, effects, and what we can do about it – is vital. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/teach4climate-campaign" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Two-thirds of US students are taught climate change badly, study finds</h3>
<p>Just 38% of US schoolchildren were taught that climate change is linked to fossil fuels, with many teachers spending less than an hour a year on the subject. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/two-thirds-us-students-are-taught-cl…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
What Can We Do About Climate Change?</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/what-can-we-do-about-clima…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">OPINION</strong><br />
Films as a Tool in Education for Sustainable Development</h3>
<p>Towards Raising an Environmentally-conscious Generation in India. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/films-tool-education-sustainabl…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Education Trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-education-trailer&qu…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Conservation
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<span style="font-size: 13.008px;">OPINION</span><br />
5 ways to help the Arctic as the planet warms</h3>
<p>The Arctic—home to diverse wildlife and many cultures—is changing faster than any other part of the planet in the face of climate change. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/5-ways-help-arctic-planet-warms" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">REPORT</strong><br />
WWF's Living Planet Report 2016</h3>
<p>The future of our Planet is in our hands. WWF's Living Planet Report 2016 shows the scale of the challenge - and what we can do about it. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/wwfs-living-planet-report-2016&…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">GALLERY</strong><br />
What We Fight For</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/advertiser-content/chester-zoo-act-for-wild…; target="_blank">SEE IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Conservation trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-conservation-trailer…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Gender
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Economic gender parity nearly two centuries off, WEF finds</h3>
<p>Progress in closing the global workplace gender gap is slowing dramatically, according to a World Economic Forum study, with a notable exception in Rwanda, a country still emerging from the aftermath of genocide that has become the world's leader on equal pay. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/economic-gender-parity-nearly-two-ce…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;"><span style="font-size: 13.008px;">REPORT</span></strong><br />
The Global Gender Gap Report 2016</h3>
<p>Through the Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender disparities and tracks their progress over time. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/global-gender-gap-report-2016" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">OPINION</strong><br />
The invisible lives of the girls who get left behind</h3>
<p>The economic empowerment of women is vital to global development. If gender gaps in labour markets were completely closed, as much as $28 trillion could be added to global annual GDP by 2025. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/invisible-lives-girls-who-get-left-b…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">BLOG POST</strong><br />
Women at the forefront of peacebuilding</h3>
<p>Sixteen years since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in 2000, the women, peace and security agenda remains relevant and critical in the face of rising violence, extremism and deadly conflicts. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/women-forefront-peacebuilding" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
Gender equality – Where are we today?</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/infographics/gender-equality-%E2%80%93-…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Gender trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-gender-trailer" target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Innovation
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">OPINION</strong><br />
How Virtual Reality Can Help Us Feel the Pain of Climate Change</h3>
<p>It's hard to comprehend the concept of oceans getting more acidic. Unless you become the coral. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/how-virtual-reality-can-help-us-feel…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Poor countries have the edge on climate innovation</h3>
<p>The developing world and emerging markets are among the most exciting places for climate policy and innovation, according to a former White House official. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/poor-countries-have-edge-climate-inn…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
UN awards Moroccan fog-water harvesting project</h3>
<p>The system, developed and installed by Morocco based NGO Dar Si Hmad, is said to be the largest fog-water harvesting system in the world. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/un-awards-moroccan-fog-water-harvest…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height: 20.0063px;">VIDEO</strong><br />
#Film4Climate Innovating for Climate Solutions Trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-innovating-climate-s…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Consumption
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">ARTICLE</strong><br />
Human Consumption of Earth's Natural Resources Has Tripled in 40 Years</h3>
<p>Humans' appetite for gnawing away at the fabric of the Earth itself is growing prodigiously. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/human-consumption-earths-natural-res…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">REPORT</strong><br />
Global Material Flows and Resource Productivity </h3>
<p>In recent years, interest in resource efficiency and sustainable management of natural resources has increased considerably, standing out as one of the top priorities on the international political agenda. <a href="http://unep.org/documents/irp/16-00169_LW_GlobalMaterialFlowsUNEReport_…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INFOGRAPHIC</strong><br />
The True Environmental Cost of Eating Meat</h3>
<p>Do you know the real cost of a steak? We’re not talking about the dollars that people shell out to buy one, but rather the environmental cost of creating it? <a href="http://connect4climate.org/infographics/true-environmental-cost-eating-…; target="_blank">CHECK IT</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">GALLERY</strong><br />
Industrial scars: The environmental cost of consumption</h3>
<p>Environmental artist J Henry Fair captures the beauty and destruction of industrial sites to illustrate the hidden impacts of the things we buy. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/oct/24/industrial-…; target="_blank">SEE IT</a></p>
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#Film4Climate: Become a climate-friendly consumer trailer</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/video/film4climate-become-climate-frien…; target="_blank">WATCH IT</a></p>
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Price On Carbon
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">BLOG POST + INITIATIVE</strong><br />
Global Cooperation through Carbon Markets Could Cut Climate Mitigation Costs Dramatically</h3>
<p>Greater cooperation through carbon trading could reduce the cost of climate change mitigation by 32 percent by 2030, according to a new World Bank report. <a href="http://connect4climate.org/article/global-cooperation-through-carbon-ma…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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<strong style="font-size: 13.008px;">INITIATIVE</strong><br />
The solution to climate change: #PutAPriceOnIt</h3>
<p>The goal of the Put A Price On It campaign is to put a price on carbon pollution by mobilizing the support of generations most affected by climate change: young people. <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/solution-climate-change-putapri…; target="_blank">READ MORE</a></p>
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5 ways to help the Arctic as the planet warms
The Arctic—home to diverse wildlife and many cultures—is changing faster than any other part of the planet in the face of climate change. Melting sea ice is already contributing to rising ocean levels worldwide and opening up new areas of the ocean for risky oil drilling. And polar bears, which depend on that ice to hunt seals, rest, and breed, are now more vulnerable than ever.
The Columbia Climate Center, in partnership with WWF and Arctic 21, published a new report that asks experts to consider the effects on the Arctic in light of an international agreement that aims to limit climate change to between 1.5° and less than 2° s C. Unfortunately for the Arctic, even that limited increase could mean a change of roughly 4°C and even up to 5°C.
Already, the changes are impacting not only Arctic residents, but billions of people living in other parts of the world.
But there’s still time left to help the Arctic and the impacts of climate change. Ultimately, experts agreed on five important ways we can take action:
1. We need to fund research to help us all better understand what the Arctic might look like in the near future. That research should prepare us for multiple scenarios.
2. We need to develop technology to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Once we find out what works, that technology should be put to work immediately and on a large-scale.
3. We need to immediately help people who live in the Arctic to adapt, which may include relocating communities. Right now there’s little policy and infrastructure to help these people adapt so they’re going it alone.
4. We need to give scientists the tools to help us effectively understand and adapt to a changing Arctic. We should support an emerging pan-Arctic observing system, along with early warning components and development of Arctic system models to track Arctic change.
5. We need to create a unified voice for Arctic action with continued global talks and decision-making, especially when that work is forward-looking.
When the White House hosted the first ever Arctic Science Ministerial, leaders from around the world agreed to work collaboratively. Keeping that commitment will be important. The Arctic needs the best in science to create the most effective policy, and no one is going to be able to do it alone.
This blog post was originally posted here.
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Two-thirds of US students are taught climate change badly, study finds
Just 38% of US schoolchildren were taught that climate change is linked to fossil fuels, with many teachers spending less than an hour a year on the subject.
Nearly two-thirds of schoolchildren in the US are taught lessons on climate change that do not rise to the level of a sound science education, according to new research on Thursday. The finding provide new evidence on the source of the confusion and denial surrounding global warming in American public life.
In the first national survey of classroom science teachers, researchers found there was short shrift given to the teaching of climate change in public middle and high schools in all 50 states.
The survey of 1,500 teachers, published in Science on Thursday, found most pupils spend only an hour or two in the course of an academic year learning about climate change in middle and high school – and much of what they are taught is confusing or simply wrong.
Only 38% of American schoolchildren were taught lessons that adhere to the scientific consensus that climate change is largely the result of the burning of fossil fuels, the researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the National Centre for Science Education found.
Some 30% of teachers spent less than an hour on climate change during the last academic year, the researchers found. In higher grades, much of that time was spent going over old material without introducing more advanced material.
Some 7% attributed recent warming to natural causes – which is simply wrong – while 4% of teachers avoided talking about the cause of climate change. Another 22% said their lessons mentioned the scientific consensus – but also that there was significant disagreement among scientists, which is also incorrect.
The findings suggest that younger generations – those most likely to experience the havoc and stress of climate change in their lifetimes – are not getting the education to best serve their needs.
Eric Plutzer, a political scientist at Penn State, and a co-author of the study, said: “We don’t think that is good preparation for citizens to be effective in advocating for policies that are going to be critical to their own generation and their children and grandchildren.”
The lack of teaching and the mixed messages about climate change leave schoolchildren more susceptible to disinformation about climate change spread by political or corporate interests once they enter adulthood, the researchers said.
The energy industry has spent millions funding climate denial and supporting Republicans in Congress who deny global warming is occurring.
Indeed, the researchers found that many of the teachers themselves were confused about the causes of climate change. Only 30% of middle school teachers and 45% of high school teachers said that human activity was the main driver of climate change, the researchers found.
Their findings are in line with other studies which have found systemic failings in the teaching of climate change. A Stanford University study of science textbooks used in California public schools last year found misleading material.
Unlike other, more informal surveys, the researchers did not give much weight to the idea that the teachers faced political and parental pressure to avoid teaching the science. But politics remained a factor in how teachers decided to teach the material, Plutzer said.
“Politics intrude in the same form it takes in the public debate, with teachers whether consciously or not aligning in much the same way as political groups do outside the classroom.”
However, the researchers said it would be unfair to heap the blame on teachers.
Climate science was not yet part of the testable curriculum for many schools – which means there were fewer guidelines available to teachers.
That also meant that teachers were inclined to spend more time teaching other material that students would encounter on standardized tests.
Some of the teachers were also caught out by the rapid advances in climate science. Fewer than half of teachers reported receiving any training in climate science at university, said Josh Rosenau, policy director for the National Center for Science in Education and a co-author. “The scientific community has not made sure that teachers are kept up to date with those advances,” he said, adding that there should be continuing education programs on climate change for teachers.
