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Climate change education. A UNESCO diagram visualising a "whole school approach" to climate change. Climate change education (CCE) is education that aims to address and develop effective responses to climate change. It helps learners understand the causes and consequences of climate change, prepares them to live with the impacts of climate ...
The Climate Fresk. The Climate Fresk is a French nonprofit organization founded in December 2018 whose aim is to raise public awareness about climate change. It proposes a collaborative serious game based on 42 cards where the participants draw a fresco, hence "fresk", which summarizes the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
A related phenomenon driven by climate change is woody plant encroachment, affecting up to 500 million hectares globally. [231] Climate change has contributed to the expansion of drier climate zones, such as the expansion of deserts in the subtropics. [232] The size and speed of global warming is making abrupt changes in ecosystems more likely ...
Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers, and the project provides resources and opportunities for K-12 teachers and students.
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
Climate drawdown refers to the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. [1] Drawdown is a milestone in reversing climate change and eventually reducing global average temperatures. [2] Project Drawdown refers to a nonprofit organization which tries to help ...
Teach the Future is a youth-led campaign pushing for broad climate education in the UK, with branches in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales. It is formed by a volunteer base of students at secondary schools and in tertiary education, who believe that sustainability and climate change need to be taught across the curriculum, equipping generations to come with the skills and knowledge ...
An "International Day of Climate Action" on October 24, 2009, was organized by 350.org to influence the delegates going to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in December 2009 . [22] [23] This was the first global campaign ever organized around a scientific data point. [24]