Dear World Leaders
In 2020 a hundred children wrote letters to World Leaders, sharing their experiences about how climate change has affected their lives and their hopes for the progress which needs to be made in the next ten years. Letters came from the UK, India, USA, Australia, Russia, Hungary, Nigeria, Mexico, and Brazil. This book uses excerpts from these letters to explain what climate change is, the impacts of climate change and explores ten subject areas highlighting progress that has already made over the last 10 years and ideas for things that can be done over the next 10 years to prevent further damage to the planet. There is a lot of action that is needed in the near future but here we show what we have done so far to bring some optimism around the potential to tackle climate change and show the ambition of what is possible. This is a book which is set out to help children learn about climate change and support them in understanding some of the solutions to the many problems the world is facing. The authors of the book hope that by amplifying the voices of their generation they will feel heard and that not only are their ideas and opinions valued but necessary to creating a better future. The cross-institutional project was led by Prof Aled Jones at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. The book includes lesson plans and activities for children to help them think about the world with climate change, how they can be active in responding to its challenges and what might happen over the next ten years.
In 2020 a hundred children wrote letters to World Leaders, sharing their experiences about how climate change has affected their lives and their hopes for the progress which needs to be made in the next ten years. Letters came from the UK, India, USA, Australia, Russia, Hungary, Nigeria, Mexico, and Brazil. This book uses excerpts from these letters to explain what climate change is, the impacts of climate change and explores ten subject areas highlighting progress that has already made over the last 10 years and ideas for things that can be done over the next 10 years to prevent further damage to the planet. There is a lot of action that is needed in the near future but here we show what we have done so far to bring some optimism around the potential to tackle climate change and show the ambition of what is possible.
This is a book which is set out to help children learn about climate change and support them in understanding some of the solutions to the many problems the world is facing. The authors of the book hope that by amplifying the voices of their generation they will feel heard and that not only are their ideas and opinions valued but necessary to creating a better future.
The cross-institutional project was led by Prof Aled Jones at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. The book includes lesson plans and activities for children to help them think about the world with climate change, how they can be active in responding to its challenges and what might happen over the next ten years.
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Energy
We need to move much more quickly to a zero-carbon power system (a power
system that does not emit any pollution) – more solar, wind, tidal and hydro
power with energy storage everywhere. We need to make sure this energy
system is cheap so that the poorest in our world have access to clean and
affordable power.
What we have done in the last 10 years
Solar installations increased, for example India saw a huge increase
of 175 times – inventing a global industry for solar technology.
We have doubled the amount of wind power that we have built
worldwide – and its half as expensive.
More than $500 billion is invested each year into climate change
solutions.
What we need to do in the next 10 years
We need to quadruple our investment to around $2 trillion per year to
solve climate change.
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