scholarly journals The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0206266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene C. Cordero ◽  
Diana Centeno ◽  
Anne Marie Todd
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Climate Change Education

scholarly journals Resource for teachers on the "Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydie Lescarmontier ◽  
Eric Guilyardi ◽  
Simon Klein ◽  
Djian Sadadou ◽  
Mathilde Tricoire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Teacher Handbook ◽  
Selection Of

<div> <div> <div> <p>The essential role of education in addressing the causes and consequences of anthropogenic climate change is increasingly being recognised at an international level. The Office for Climate Education (OCE) develops educational resources and proposes professional development opportunities to support teachers, worldwide, to mainstream climate change education. Drawing upon the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, the OCE has produced a set of educational resources that cover the scientific and societal dimensions, at local and global levels, while developing students’ reasoning abilities and guiding them to take action (mitigation and/or adaptation) in their schools or communities. These resources include:</p> <p>1. Ready-to-use teacher handbook that (i) target students from the last years of primary school to the end of lower-secondary school (aged 9 to 15), (ii) include scientific and pedagogical overviews, lesson plans, activities and worksheets, (iii) are interdisciplinary, covering topics in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and physical education, (iv) promote active pedagogies: inquiry- based science education, role-play, debate, projectbased learning.</p> <p>2. A Summary for teachers of the IPCC Special Report, presented together with a selection of related activities and exercises that can be implemented in the classroom.</p> <p>3. A set of 10 videos where experts speak about a specific issue related to the ocean or the cryosphere, in the context of climate change.</p> <p>4. A set of 4 multimedia activities offering students the possibility of working interactively in different topics related to climate change.</p> <p>5. A set of 3 resources for teacher trainers, offering turnkey training protocols on the topics of climate change, ocean and cryosphere.</p> </div> </div> </div>

Recycling as seduction: Critiquing the practice of climate-change education from a primary classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Sylvia Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Experienced Teacher ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Primary Classroom ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Insufficient Response ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Recycling is often included in lists of things that can be done to mitigate climate change. Recycling is not a “bad’ thing, but recycling alone is an insufficient response to the complex problems posed by climate change. This article takes the reader through the journey of an experienced teacher who began with a hopeful vision to include climate change in her school’s programme, meandered through a myriad distracting recycling schemes, until she reached a deeper understanding of the barriers to climate change education and the role of emotions in these programmes. The article concludes with her three key lessons for future climate change curriculum projects.

scholarly journals The Role of Universities Building an Ecosystem of Climate Change Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Fernando M. Reimers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractThis chapter introduces the field of climate change education, noting the paradox that in spite of many efforts at incorporating climate change in education policy and curriculum frameworks, and a diversity of practices in schools, there is little evidence that such efforts are contributing to adaptation, mitigation or reversal of climate change. The chapter reviews the role of international development organizations advocating for and developing frameworks in support of climate change education. This is followed by an analysis of ongoing efforts of climate change education.The chapter argues that more effective education for climate change at the primary and secondary education levels around the world requires context specific strategies that align the specific learning outcomes with the impacts of climate change in that context. Implementing those strategies requires the development of institutional capacity in schools that is aligned to the stage of institutional development of the school. The chapter explains how a multidisciplinary framework that accounts for the cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political dimensions of the change process can support the development of collaboration and coherence in implementing those climate change education strategies. Those strategies need to also specify the particular populations that need to develop such competencies and the optimal means of delivery. The chapter also situates the literature on climate change education within the larger context of the literature on deeper learning, twenty first century skills and education system change, explaining how deeper learning in climate change education might influence attitudes and behaviors in ways that prevailing didactic approaches focused principally on the transmission of scientific knowledge do not.To develop such context specific climate change education strategies and to build the institutional capacity to implement them, the chapter makes the case for more intentional engagement of universities, in partnership with schools and non-formal education organizations. This would serve the dual role of providing support for schools in advancing climate change education, while also educating higher education students on climate change through problem based, participatory and contextually situated approaches.

Resources for teachers on the “Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Klein ◽  
Eric Guilyardi ◽  
Djian Sadadou ◽  
Mathilde Tricoire ◽  
David Wilgenbus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Teacher Handbook

<p>The essential role of education in addressing the causes and consequences of anthropogenic climate change is increasingly being recognised at an international level. The Office for Climate Education (OCE) develops educational resources and proposes professional development opportunities to support teachers, worldwide, to mainstream climate change education. Drawing upon the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, the OCE has produced a set of educational resources that cover the scientific and societal dimensions, at local and global levels, while developing students’ reasoning abilities and guiding them to take action (mitigation and/or adaptation) in their schools or communities. These resources include:</p><p>1. Ready-to-use teacher handbook that (i) target students from the last years of primary school to the end of lower-secondary school (aged 9 to 15), (ii) include scientific and pedagogical overviews, lesson plans, activities and worksheets, (iii) are interdisciplinary, covering topics in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and physical education, (iv) promote active pedagogies: inquiry-based science education, role-play, debate, projectbased learning.</p><p>2. A Summary for teachers of the IPCC Special Report, presented together with a selection of related activities and exercises that can be implemented in the classroom. </p><p>3. A set of 10 videos where experts speak about a specific issue related to the ocean or the cryosphere, in the context of climate change.</p><p>4. A set of 4 multimedia activities offering students the possibility of working interactively in different topics related to climate change.</p><p>5. A set of 3 resources for teacher trainers, offering turnkey training protocols on the topics of climate change, ocean and cryosphere.</p>

scholarly journals Community participation in mitigating marine waste to reduce climatic change in tourism destinations

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 569-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudesh Prabhakaran ◽  
Vikneswaran Nair ◽  
Sridar Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Marine Waste

Purpose Waste in the marine environment has become a serious task to be managed. Uncontrolled dumping creates large amounts of methane gas contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. This conceptual paper focuses on the role of community in waste management activities to reduce carbon emissions in the marine environment. Hence, this paper aims to examine using literature, the various roles of community, types of marine waste and its impact on carbon emissions and climate change. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on evaluation and criticism from previous studies and provides a hypothetical understanding of the human contribution to climate change, and its impacts which will increasingly affect climate change and sustainable tourism. Findings The results from this study can be used as a guide for policy makers to help improve community participation and public engagement in efforts to reduce the levels of waste in the marine environment. This is especially critical in rural tourism destinations where the impact of uncontrolled marine waste has serious consequences for the tourism industry. Originality/value The paper contributes to a better understanding of the role of community in mitigating waste to attain a higher quality of tourism experience and environmental benefits from emission level reductions.

scholarly journals Effects of Forestry on Carbon Emissions in China: Evidence From a Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaijun Li ◽  
Zouheir Mighri ◽  
Suleman Sarwar ◽  
Chen Wei
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Pollution Reduction ◽  
Spatial Durbin Model ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Total Forest Area ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
Combat Climate Change ◽  
Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model

Research has proved the significance of forests in controlling carbon emissions, however, our research sheds light on the management of existing forests to combat climate change. To examine the role of forestation and forest investment activities, dynamic spatial techniques are used for 30 provinces of China. The results suggest that forest investment and management not only reduce carbon locally but also in neighboring provinces. Furthermore, the findings of the current study confirmed that forest investment is the most viable practice to control carbon emissions in China instead of just increasing total forest area. Reforms regarding the management of forests would be a good policy for both pollution reduction and employment generation.

scholarly journals The Unique Role of Medical Students in Catalyzing Climate Change Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 238212052095765
Author(s):  
Benjamin M Rabin ◽  
Emaline B Laney ◽  
Rebecca P Philipsborn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Curricular Integration ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Climate And Health

Climate change is a well-recognized threat to human health with impacts on every organ system and with implications for disease processes across subspecialties. Climate-driven environmental exposures influence the pathophysiologic underpinnings of disease emphasized in the pre-clinical years of medical school. While medical schools are beginning to offer climate change and health electives, medical education is lagging in providing fundamental climate-and-health content to adequately prepare the next generation of physicians for the challenges that they will face in the provision of healthcare and the prevention and treatment of disease. This perspective piece highlights the unique role of medical students in catalyzing the incorporation of climate content into the pre-clinical medical school curriculum and provides topics for disseminated curricular integration with the concepts emphasized in the pre-clinical years of medical education.

scholarly journals The Role of Pyrolysis and Gasification in a Carbon Negative Economy

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 882
Author(s):  
Robert C. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Biomass Carbon ◽  
Carbon Removal ◽  
International Panel ◽  
Energy Products ◽  
Forms Of Carbon

The International Panel on Climate Change and the 2015 Climate Summit in Paris have recommended that efforts to reduce carbon emissions be coupled with carbon removal from the atmosphere. Carbon negative energy combines net carbon removal with the production of energy products or other revenue-generating products beyond sequestered carbon. Even though both biochemical and thermochemical approaches to carbon negative energy can be envisioned, this paper considers the prospects for the latter including pyrolysis and gasification. The fundamentals of these two processes are described to better understand how they would be integrated with carbon removal. Characteristics of pyrolysis and gasification are related to the kinds of sequestration agents they would produce, the scale of their deployment, the fraction of biomass carbon that could ultimately sequestered, the challenges of effectively sequestering these different forms of carbon and the economics of thermochemical carbon negative energy.

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