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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Climate change
Climate change seems to be affecting everything. So, what is it?
Pollution, often referred to as carbon emissions, from burning fossil fuels
in our factories and cars, cutting down trees, agriculture, and waste, have
collected in the atmosphere and act like a blanket warming up the planet.
The last decade was almost one degree Celsius warmer than a hundred years
ago. This warming across the planet puts a huge amount of energy into our
weather system. So, while a slightly warmer planet melts ice and raises sea
levels it also makes the extremes of our weather more likely and worse.
To combat climate change we need to stop emitting carbon as well as adapt to
the impacts of the warming we are already experiencing.
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