Climate Change

Description

Climate Change is divided into three manageable and informative sections. Using graphs, photographs, illustrations and facts, Climate Change aims to broaden secondary level student’s knowledge on the issue. Section one  – Understanding Climate – explores the different terminologies and definitions under the term ‘climate’.  It also focuses on what human activities have contributed to global warming and climate change including unsustainable use of energy, transportation etc.

Section two focuses on what the consequences of Climate Change are (storms, environmental refugees, drought, poverty, food (in)security etc). More importantly, section two focuses on the impact of these consequences for the developing world in the form of 6 different case studies.

Section three poses the question of ‘what can be done?’, which looks at international agreements such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.  It also explores a number of examples of sustainable solutions – including day-to-day actions – as well as climate change campaigns.

Suggested use: Background information, stimulus material to the issues surrounding climate change

Further Reading

Other publications from Concern’s Campaign Resource series:

• World Hunger (2009)
• Child Labour (2008)
• Microcredit: give credit to the poor (2006)

Other climate change resources:

• Human Development Report 2007/8 Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a divided world
• For more on climate change, see the www.developmenteducation.ie Sustainable Development Module