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Climate change –<br />
causes and solutions<br />
The Leys Primary School & Kathmandu English School
Our two schools have formed a strong partnership through our involvement in<br />
the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme.<br />
When discussing what to next collaborate on it was noted<br />
that the United Nations’ summit on climate change (COP26)<br />
was scheduled to take place in the UK later this year so we<br />
decided to focus on Sustainable Development Goal No. <strong>13</strong><br />
(Climate Action).<br />
COP stands for Conference of the Parties and will be attended by countries<br />
that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<br />
(UNFCCC) – a treaty signed in 1994. The 2021 meeting will be the 26 th<br />
meeting, which is why it’s called COP26.<br />
This school collaborative project explores the multiple causes of climate change<br />
and the approaches that are being taken to tackle it. In order to provide focus<br />
and connection to the issues, waste management is used as the main discussion<br />
point as it is something that communities all over the world can change –<br />
today and tomorrow.
World carbon emissions (2015)<br />
Country sizes adjusted to reflect amount of CO 2 emission
Next, students wrote<br />
short stories to<br />
highlight how plastics<br />
can end up in our<br />
rivers and oceans.
‘I Got Garbage’ is a project made possible by one person’s<br />
idea being invested in by local, then regional organisations.<br />
It started with a single town where the local rag pickers<br />
were given uniforms and asked to collect rubbish directly<br />
from apartments, business and hotels and sort it into wet<br />
and dry recycling, and ‘reject’ (landfill). The local collectors<br />
then take the wet and dry recycling to centres where they<br />
are paid a fair wage for the amount they collect.<br />
Click on logo to show short film
Tackling waste creatively<br />
Students next learnt about the work of the<br />
Ecobrick initiative which tackles the problem of<br />
how to recycle waste by packing it into plastic<br />
bottles which are then used as building blocks that<br />
can be used multiple times.
Click on image to start short film<br />
Ecobricks are a simple,<br />
low-tech solution to our<br />
plastic that follows the<br />
Earth’s ancient example<br />
in carbon care. They put<br />
our waste plastic to<br />
good use in short- and<br />
long-term applications<br />
that are circular and<br />
kind to the environment.
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