SDG 13_collaboration

Climate change –
causes and solutions
The Leys Primary School & Kathmandu English School

Our two schools have formed a strong partnership through our involvement in
the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme.
When discussing what to next collaborate on it was noted
that the United Nations’ summit on climate change (COP26)
was scheduled to take place in the UK later this year so we
decided to focus on Sustainable Development Goal No. 13
(Climate Action).
COP stands for Conference of the Parties and will be attended by countries
that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) – a treaty signed in 1994. The 2021 meeting will be the 26 th
meeting, which is why it’s called COP26.
This school collaborative project explores the multiple causes of climate change
and the approaches that are being taken to tackle it. In order to provide focus
and connection to the issues, waste management is used as the main discussion
point as it is something that communities all over the world can change –
today and tomorrow.

World carbon emissions (2015)
Country sizes adjusted to reflect amount of CO 2 emission

Next, students wrote
short stories to
highlight how plastics
can end up in our
rivers and oceans.

‘I Got Garbage’ is a project made possible by one person’s
idea being invested in by local, then regional organisations.
It started with a single town where the local rag pickers
were given uniforms and asked to collect rubbish directly
from apartments, business and hotels and sort it into wet
and dry recycling, and ‘reject’ (landfill). The local collectors
then take the wet and dry recycling to centres where they
are paid a fair wage for the amount they collect.
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Tackling waste creatively
Students next learnt about the work of the
Ecobrick initiative which tackles the problem of
how to recycle waste by packing it into plastic
bottles which are then used as building blocks that
can be used multiple times.

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Ecobricks are a simple,
low-tech solution to our
plastic that follows the
Earth’s ancient example
in carbon care. They put
our waste plastic to
good use in short- and
long-term applications
that are circular and
kind to the environment.

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