Climate Change Education weblog

If I had magic powers, what should I do to fight against global warming?

Wednesday 09 Feb, 2011 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Marie, Muriel et Myriam Dielemans, Teachers and authors, International Polar Foundation
www.educapoles.org
www.contespedagogiques.be

"The  Ice  Magician" - story free of charge for 10 – 12 years old

Theme : Discovery of methane, greenhouse gas produced in part by bacteria and buried in large quantities in the frozen soil of the polar regions. Its warming potential is 25 times greater than CO2.

To discover on http://www.contespedagogiques.be/mystere_choix_nouvelle_version_angl.html

Posted 09/02 2011, 14:28 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Writing the World with Cool It Schools

Monday 15 Feb, 2010 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Jane Langley, Cool it Schools

Cool it Schools, a global online climate change and environmental showcase, has just launched Writing the World (opens a new window), a new competition for young people.

The theme celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity. The winning poems will be published on the Natural History Museum's web site and in the junior member's magazine Second Nature, also beautiful books on biodiversity will be presented by Dorling Kindersley and Silver Jungle.



Cool it Schools is an education partner with the Natural History Museum. £2 to enter an illustrated poem of up to 14 lines.

All entries will be displayed on the Cool it Schools website. The judge is the poet Sue Hubbard.
Enquiries: coolitschools-AT-ukonline.co-DOT-ukhttp://www.coolitschools.com/writing-the-world

Posted 15/02 2010, 13:27 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

From the teachers in Denmark: The best examples on teaching climate issues...

Friday 29 Jan, 2010 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

During the Autumn 2009 The Danish Ministry of Education and EMU - the Danish Educational Portal - asked teachers in Denmark to submit descriptions of all their best examples on how to teach climate change.

The winners of the "Climate cup" were announced this January and you can see the exciting descriptions on their ideas on this web page. Although the language is in Danish you might find some inspiration:
http://klimacup.emu.dk/konkurrencer/national/vindere.html 

Browse the map and see the contributions from the Danish teachers.



Below you can see a movie from the winners in the high school category:
Frederiksborg Gymnasium og HF: Young Climate Conferene 09.

The movie is a recording of the school's climate change top summit.



Can you add something to the experience?

Write us so we can publish your idea on the blog as well.

Posted 29/01 2010, 11:18 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Bright Green...

Monday 04 Jan, 2010 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

Governments, activists and industry all did their best to display their good intentions, their beliefs and their products at the COP15 conference in December 2009.

At the "Bright Green" in Forum, Copenhagen on December 12th and 13th it was the industry's turn as the Confederation of Danish Industry had arranged a conference focusing on cutting-edge climate change technologies. Really, there were quite many companies displaying their stuff. I was happy to snap a few photos along the way.

Below Toyota had setup a truck simulator explaining the driver in real-time how to use the gas pedal and how to change gears in the truck in order to save gasoline thereby minimizing CO2-emissions. Step on it! Gently...



Earlier on this blog we referred to the ICE09 conference where Jan-Eric Sundgren (Senior Vice President of AB Volvo responsible for public & environmental affairs) told us about the need to influence the curriculum.
Click here to see a video of Jan-Eric Sundgren's presentation from the ICE09 conference.
So new simulators for efficient driving should perhaps be a part of a truck driver's curriculum.

At Vestas - the leading Danish Wind turbine producer - they had the time of their lives December 2009. Being the pride of the Danish Wind turbinde industry they of course had a large stand at the expo showing and visualizing wind turbines.

Actually I didn't know that the wings of a windmill are adjusted each time they pass the tower in order to minimize air pressure on the wings. This close-up shows where the wings can turn.

So in the future there will be a continuing need to educate engineers to research optimal wind conditions for wind turbines in order to push turbine capacity to the limit while producing green energy.

At the Vestas stand you could also blow at the small windmills while their "production" was visualized with laser lights on the "smoke carpet" behind the small mills.

As we are continually amazed of what Google Earth can offer of visualizations for climate change for free this "Tangible Earth" was also really an eye-opener for visualizing the complexity of climate systems.



Being able to visualize different layers - with sea level temperature, surface temperature and the like - this globe really makes the complex systems of climate change more... well yes, tangible.

A neat but surely also an expensive geography book.
Click here to see more of the Tangible Earth.

Posted 04/01 2010, 16:37 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Children set Homework for Adults at COP15 Climate Conference

Thursday 17 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Emily Polack, Research Officer, Climate Change and Development Centre at the Institute of Development Studies, UK

Children make up around a 1/3 of the world’s population. Yet a group of young journalists attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen believe their voices are still unheard. Around the Bella Centre, youth delegations have been vocal, while the voices of under 18 year olds has been largely absent.



On the first day of the COP15, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer began his opening address by quoting a six-year old boy speaking on his experiences and the tragic loss of his parents after a devastating cyclone in Burma. He called the world to action: “Excellencies, Ministers, ladies and gentlemen: it is repetitions of this that the world is here to prevent.” Since then however, references to particularly vulnerable groups of people, including children have been removed from the draft texts for the post 2012 framework. Children in a Changing Climate (CCC) is a coalition of leading research and practice organisations seeking to give children a voice in climate change debates from their communities to the UN. I work at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, which leads the CCC-research programme, building the evidence base for more attention from policy makers to the voices of children.

CCC is drawing on the experiences of its partners in child-centred projects to reduce risks to disasters. With climate change exacerbating conditions of poverty in the majority world, and increasing risks from disasters, including children in climate change adaptation interventions is the only way that responses to climate change will be effective.

At a ‘classroom style’ CCC Side Event at the Bella Centre this morning the panellists gave lessons on why and how children’s capacities and rights must have greater visibility in international and national policies.



Children from Kenya, Indonesia and UK gave the audience some homework (Adobe pdf file) to push governments and NGOs to work with children to tackle climate change together.

Quotes from the young participants:

• “Children around the world are unrepresented and we feel our voices are not heard or considered by the leaders or governments. Given the opportunity, the education and the resources, we have the potential to make a difference and take control.” Beatrice, 13, from Kenya.


• “International conferences such as this are the place that governments and children can work in unity.” Reina, 13, from Indonesia


• “As children we have rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but we also have responsibilities. We in the West have more resources to adaptation climate change. But in developing countries people are physically and mentally exhausted by the conditions they face, and they don’t have the resources to adapt. We need to make sure there is enough finance for adaptation there.” Leon, 17, from UK. 

The links between climate change and human rights have been established over the past two years, and even featured in versions of the draft text for a post Kyoto agreement, and the African submission at the weekend also contained rights language. Today the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food issued a statement on the need for climate policies to be deeply rooted in a human rights regime to ‘guarantee minimized impacts upon the most vulnerable’. However, the chances of inclusion of a rights perspective in the final text are currently uncertain. 

The Convention on the Rights of the Child is perhaps the most pertinent, given the threats climate change poses to safeguarding the child rights and delivering intergenerational equity. It is clear that promoting the rights of the child to protection and safety, participation, survival and development is the only way to ensure climate change decision-making is made in the best interests of the child. These dimensions are all included in the Convention.

From my research in Kenya and Cambodia, it is clear that children are all too aware of the links between the impacts of climate change on their families’ livelihoods, their safety and their access to education. They face however many limitations to taking action. Child-led risk reduction can help different actors from local to national and international level to reduce barriers to children’s ability to claim their rights.

A new report for the Children in a Changing Climate Coalition Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward (Adobe pdf file) presents 16 case studies of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) involving children. These case studies sit along a continuum of child involvement from building children's knowledge to child-led action reflecting different scales of child leadership. The report proposes that concerted effort is now required to enable child-led DRR to transform policies.

As millions of children’s futures hang in the balance as the outcome of the COP15 negotiations remain uncertain, it is critical that spaces for children to be given a voice and be respected as powerful actors are created and sustained throughout climate change debates and decision-making, from this week on. 

The Children in a Changing Climate coalition includes IDS alongside agencies including Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF, World Vision, Interclimate and the UK National Children's Bureau.

Please sign-up for the newsletter which will inform you of the latest news and research and the upcoming launch of a new site with a more comprehensive database of research, advocacy and learning materials relating to child-centred adaptation to climate change. 

Listen to an interview with Beatrice from Kenya 

Download Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Taking stock and moving forward (pdf) 

 

Download IDS Briefing Series: Rights, Needs and Capacities of Children in a Changing Climate 

Meet the young journalists with Plan International and read their reports from COP15 

Posted 17/12 2009, 13:46 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Climate Change is really quite simple - it is a "tame problem"

Thursday 17 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

One of the sessions at the climate change conference on December 11th at the Danish School of Education, DPU, Aarhus University was held by Bill Mckibben.

McGibben is a co-founder and director of http://www.350.org/ and co-founder of "International Day of Climate Action" (that was on October the 24th 2009).

Bill McGibben held an inspiring session on how to communicate a complicated topic across cultural and geographical borders.

One solution to this challenge was the international 350 campaign - 350 being the maximum number of CO2 in parts per million in the air (this was actually the most technical part of his session).

The trick was to take a complicated problem and communicate it in a very simple manner.



Earlier this morning at the same conference Professor Mike Hulme from the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, had argued that the climate problem actually is a "wicked problem" (using the words of Horst Rittel) in contrast to "a tame problem".
Click here to read about wicked and tame problems on Wikipedia.

So being activists having to communicate to a wide array of different people, Bill McGibbens and his fellow activists, countered this approach explaining this seemingly wicked climate change problem with one three-digit word - 350!

The argument is, that if we - the population of the world - can agree to keep the CO2 level in the air below 350 ppm we can deal with the consequences of climate change.

Using a simple slogan - 350 - the organisation had build up an international campaign involving many environmental organisations - all communicating the simple 350 message.

Bill McGibbens presented a lot of touching pictures from the campaign from around the world giving a nice example on how to educate grow-ups in an alternative manner while building up an environmental campaign.
See all these pictures on the 350 campaign website.

Afterwards Andrew Revkin from New York Times also talked about media and communication and gave examples from his blog.

One of his examples was a lawyer dressed as a polar bear warning President Obama of failure (The lawyer was actually Brendan Cummings, who was one of the persons ensuring that polar bears was listed under the Endangered Species Act in the US).

Revkin's point with this little example was that - probably - this lawyer would not have gotten his attention if he had been dressed the way a lawyer normally is. Click to open Andrew Revkins' blog on Climate Change from New York Times.

As you might have read a few days ago on this blog - the Danish educational portal - emu.dk - also have a furry - or feathery friend - communicating the climate change challenges to the educational world. The mascot EMU and his furry friend Teddy are visiting the COP15 conference these  day.

This saturday I was also out in the real world as well. Demonstrators and activists from all over the world - literally - gathered in front of the Danish Parliament and marched 5 km to the Bella Center where the COP15 takes place.

In the picture below you will notice at least two large campaign logos and a guy wearing a "Halliburton Survival Suit" (you may know that one from "The Yes Men Fix The World".



So there are many ways the get peoples' or pupils' attention - but do you really have to dress up as a bear or wear that kind of suit?

Posted 17/12 2009, 09:55 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

COP15 invitation to Rødovre Gymnasium - a high school in Copenhagen.

Wednesday 16 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Pernille Ehlers, Rødovre Gymnasium, Copenhagen

Rødovre Gymnasium is a Copenhagen high school which has made an exibition on different climate issues.



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You are welcome to visit the exibition. The students will tell you about the different climate-issues in the exhibition and how they worked with it.

The exhibition is open from 4 pm to 8 pm on monday (14/12), wednesday (16/12) and friday (18/12).
You can also visit the exhibition i the schooltime, if you mail us on: rg<AT>rg.dk.

Welcome!

Posted 16/12 2009, 12:20 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

"Can education change the climate?"

Wednesday 16 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

- a short resumé from a conference on climate change in education.

By Anders Raun, Specialist Consultant at UNI-C - The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research - editor at the Teachers' COP15 website - http://teacherscop15.dk.

Among many other climate events in Denmark these weeks the Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University held a conference friday December 11th. The conference marked the launch of "The response from education".

The programme was published earlier on on this blog and the conference included sessions from a series of prominent persons in the field of educational research and climate change communication.

The conference also marked the opening of a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in the field of education and sustainable development under the United Nations University Framework.

The Danish Minister of Education Mr. Bertel Haarder opened the conference and congratulated the DPU and Aarhus University on their efforts.
Click here to read more on Regional Centres of Expertise under UNU.

Professor Jeppe Læssøe from DPU afterwards explained the goals of the RCE and we hope later on to publish a seperate blog entry on this issue from Jeppe Læssøe. Some of the sessions were recorded on video and they are accessible from the DPU website (The web page is Danish language, the videos are in English).



Click the picture to watch the session with (mms streaming / .wmv file):
Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University
Dean, Professor Chris Husbands, Institute of Education, University of London
Professor Jeppe Læssøe, DPU, Aarhus University

Are you a climate change education researcher or educator we also recommend downloading the latest issue of "Education Alliance Quarterly" from "The International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes" including researchers from DPU - http://www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?p=14116

Click on the picture below to download the publication from IALEI as an Adobe pdf file.

Posted 16/12 2009, 10:01 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

"Nature Voice Project" in Spain seeking partners from Bergen, Norway

Tuesday 15 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Francisco Requejo Domínguez, Teacher - Coordinator Nature Voice Project, Sagrado Corazon School, Ferrol - Spain.

I´m a teacher of “Sagrado Corazón” School in Ferrol (Spain). We  participated in the Nature Voice Project :  “Our estuary, rich, rich”. All the pupils , from elementary   to secondary, 662 in total, will participate in this project  coordinated by the  teachers. The objective is that our pupils discover through a variety of activities, designed specifically for each age group, the history, the wealth of  the landscape , the flora and fauna of our estuary in Ferrol and the coastal ecosystem of our Atlantic coasts, and to work towards it´s recovery and developments.



We would like to extend our project to an international level.We feel that there are already many links between Ferrol and  Norway. Our idea is that our school could be twinned with a Norwegian school situated, if possible, on the coast or near a fiord. As we think the pupils  in secondary education, who already know the English, could  communicate through post or via  e-mail to exchange information about the estuary and the fiord. They could  compare the differences in  origin, morphology, flora and fauna, customs of our people, etc. We believe this would enrich our teaching methods and the  formation of  respectful values for different cultures and environmental protection.

We would be very grateful if a  school in Bergen (Norway) that  would be interested in taking part in this ambitious and educational project.

From the editor: If you happen to be from Bergen, Norway and if you are you interested in cooperating with this spanish project you can write to Francisco Requejo Domínguez on the e-mail - fjrd<AT>edu.xunta.es.

Also click here to find the project description uploaded to the world climate map where you can find it when you zoom in on Galicia in the northwestern part of Spain.

Posted 15/12 2009, 10:07 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

INESPO - International Environment & Scientific Project Olympiad

Monday 14 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Abraham Elmaagac, Coordinator INESPO - www.inespo.org 

Dear Friends and fellow Colleagues,
We are very happy to inform you that the pre-registrations for the coming International Environment & Scientific Project Olympiad (INESPO) in the Netherlands between 3rd-7th June, 2nd INESPO 2010, has been very successful.

We have already more then 35 countries with 200 projects pre-registered. If for some reason you didn't hear about this event we like to give you the opportunity to being informed and distribute this invitation in your country to join the 2nd INESPO 2010.

Important is to know that there is an initial registration called "initial application 2010" which is mandatory to be filled only by a teacher, supervisor or country coordinator before the deadline of 31st December 2009. After this application you can fill in the form "Final Registration 2010" both forms can be found at our site www.inespo.org under section "Application".

When nominating the projects on April 5th 2010 (see our calendar of events) we will privilege and grant priorities to those projects who have already won a national price in their country. This term will not exclude new projects from other schools. If an agreement has been made with your country Olympiad coordinator it is a fact that only the national coordinator has the authority to send in the participating teams.

Posted 14/12 2009, 15:35 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Visible tweets on #cop15

Saturday 12 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Claus Berg

Thousands of messages on Climate Change are distributed via twitter. Tweets about COP15 are usually tagged #cop15. Today, Saturday 12 December, is the day of the big climate demonstration in Copenhagen, and there's really a flood of tweets. But for sure messages about COP15 will continue for the next couple of days.

Here's in real-time what people say about #cop15

Visible Tweets is a visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. It's often used at conferences, public outdoor meetings etc.

Here we've embedded the stream of messages tagged #cop15, showing them in an iframe as an animation. Cool tool! You can read more about visibletweets at their web site.

Links:

• Visible Tweets for #cop15 http://visibletweets.com/#query=%23cop15&animation=2
• Visible Tweets, frontpage with more information http://visibletweets.com/
• Real-time results for #cop15, as it looks directly on twitter.com
  

Posted 12/12 2009, 19:05 by Claus Berg in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

The young voices of COP15

Friday 11 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Anders Raun, Specialist Consultant at UNI-C - The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research - editor at the Teachers' COP15 website - http://teacherscop15.dk.

The next generations are raising their voices and they want to be heard. On the opening day of the COP15 they WERE HEARD and on wednesday 9th some young people WANTED to be heard.

On monday 7th two young students presented recommendations from various youth climate conferences to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. One of the messages was that "we all share a responsibility for the future generation’s right to a clean and healthy environment, where it is possible to live and grow".
Read the full text on the website for the Danish Ministry of Education.

Wednesday, I attended a session at the the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference in the Bella Center - the ClimateForum09 - Peoples Climate Summit - http://www.klimaforum09.org/ 



Among many other sessions, young people from the organisation Young friends of the Earth held a session about how they arrange their activities at various top summits around the globe and how they continuously try to gain the attention of politicians by means of street theater, demonstrations and other activites.



A few videos of actions at the COP14 were presented and as they stated: "We like to make movies". Partly because they have fun making the movies and partly because they use them to support further activities and recruitment of new activists around the world.



Following the session was a brief discussion on how the activists' beliefs were applicaple with "the economics of the real world".

No matter how the next generation expresses themselves, one thing is for sure, though - they want to be heard!

Posted 11/12 2009, 08:56 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

EMU and Teddy at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Wednesday 09 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

The Teachers' COP15 website is edited by the staff at the Danish educational portal - the EMU - http://emu.dk. To help communicate our message to EMU's younger audience we have created the mascot EMU. So the mascot of EMU - The Danish Educational Portal - is EMU - a blue teddy bear which looks a bit like an emu.

Now EMU has a lot of friends because each week EMU visits new places and meets people from all over the world. Danish pupils (0.-3. graders) and teachers can read about EMU in his weblog which is found here (in Danish language): http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/emudagbog/ 

One of EMU's good friends is Teddy. Teddy is of course also a teddy bear and he is from the United States of America. You can also read about Teddys experiences in EMU's weblog.

Actually Teddy and EMU are not just teddy bears. they are "furry agents of cultural exchange". Through a youth outreach programme they facilitate the exchange of Danish and American culture in a collaboration between the EMU portal and the American Embassy in Denmark. To support this goal the US Embassy are creating web pages telling abut american history, culture and politics (the web page is in Danish language):
http://emu.dk.usvpp.gov/ 

This week EMU and Teddy visited the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in the Bella Center. Only accredited visitors can enter the "sacred halls" of the conference so EMU and Teddy were very excited about the visit. Here goes...

By EMU

Hi,
It's COP15 these next two weeks. It all takes place on Amager near Copenhagen. I've been out here with my friend Teddy from the US Embassy in Denmark. There are a lot of people out there. There are around 15000 people at a time. Over 37000 people are expected to visit the Bella Center these two weeks. That's as many people as a medium sized city. We've already experienced all kids of cool stuff. Luckily we took photos.

Here are some of the photos. More will come in the next two weeks.

The Bella Center is huge, so we had to check out the map first.



Then we had to take a look at the program. We found a nice chair designed by the Danish designer Wegner, where we could study today's program.





Right by the nice chairs, there were some big moss-balls that we tried to climb.



There are special garbage cans for all the different types of garbage. That's clever, because everything can be recycled.



We met a guard who wanted to take photo with us, but only one at a time. He wasn't allowed to use the hand he needs for his gun. I thought it was a bit dangerous. The guards are from the UN. That's because the entire Bella Center are is UN territory during COP15.


Do you know Google Earth? It's that program where you can see the entire world on your computer. Google had made a 360 degrees Google Earth where you just had to say what you wanted to see and it would appear on the screen. The machine only understands English. We saw the Niagara Falls first and then we saw the UN headquarters in New York. It was really amazing.


We also went by the US Center. There are exiting lectures every day there about all kinds of subjects that have to do with the climate. You have to pay attention though because it's pretty high level English. You can see all the lecures live on the web (https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/uscenter).


After that we went by the US Press Center. That's where all the journalists who want to know something about the US's ideas to help the climate get all their information.


We also made a new friend today. Our new friend is named Happy Cube and is from Mediators Without Borders. That's an organization that works with conflict resolution. So if someone is in an argument Happy Cube can help resolve it.



Finally we went into where all the action is. The big Plenary. There sure are a lot of chairs there!



I'll send more photos soon.

EMU

Posted 09/12 2009, 13:11 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Hello Copenhagen. Greetings to our colleagues worldwide!

Monday 07 Dec, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Claus Berg

By Alice Hendricks, Science Teacher and Assistant Editor, ClimateChangeEducation.org, San Francisco, California, USA

Hello Copenhagen. Greetings to our colleagues worldwide!

Whatever the outcome in government agreements in the coming days, climate educators worldwide are ALREADY networking in support of one another as never before. Thank you Teachers' COP 15! Governments would do well to follow the leadership of teachers and kids, we certainly are advancing beautifully international cooperation in taking on climate change.

Here in San Francisco, our Copenhagen Cafe opens today. [click link below] With live media streams coming in from Copenhagen conferences and events, following the Teachers' COP 15 website, this is our city's local hub of activity, a center for meetings and presentations. Teachers, students and many others involved in climate education and action will gather here -- today through 17 December.

We are eagerly studying the best lessons emerging from the gatherings in Copenhagen, while also exploring the internet resources available on the international climate education portals. This, on days where we also engage thousands of kids and families in climate science and global warming solutions.

We are learning from all of you -- asking: what are our colleagues doing in their programs? When we can return the favor, we are glad to help. In San Francisco, we have an amazing community, where climate education is both supported and is highly sought after.

San Franciscans have developed wonderful resources. We didn't do this to show off, but to involve our kids and public in climate science and positive action. Further, where we can help fellow climate teachers worldwide, that makes us very happy.

Birthplace of the United Nations, and host to World Environment Day 2005, it is deep within our city's character to connect internationally with all those working for positive progress.

If you would like to see what 10 years of climate education efforts has produced in San Francisco, if you'd like to survey a leading community's current programs, you will enjoy exploring this feature:
http://climatechangeeducation.org/international/highlights/leaders/sf/index.html
If we can help you further, please let us know how -- email: international AT climatechangeeducation.org

Alice Hendricks
Science Teacher and Assistant Editor,
ClimateChangeEducation.org

Links

• climatechangeeducation.org | globalwarmingkids.net | globalwarmingcalifornia.net
• International Climate Change Education Portal climatechangeeducation.org/international/
• Welcome to the Copenhagen Cafe www.carboncollaborative.org/?q=copenhagen-cafe

Posted 07/12 2009, 14:17 by Claus Berg in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments

Can education change the climate? Conference December 11th 2009

Friday 20 Nov, 2009 |  0 Comments 

by Anders Raun

By Professor Jeppe Læssøe, DPU, Aarhus University

Can education change the climate?
Overcoming the barriers to action by re-thinking education and communication in times of climate change.
Conference December 11th 2009 at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen

The Danish School of Education (DPU) and the Climate Panel at Aarhus University will host a conference in relation to the COP15 conference.
Click here to register for the conference (opens a new window)

The aim of the conference is to emphasize the importance of public involvement and education as well as the communication between experts and the public for the implementation of any climate policy.

As part of the conference eight recommendations for political action will be presented. They are informed by a cross-national research project on ‘Climate change and Sustainable Development: The response from education’ which has been initiated and conducted by the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes.

Programme:
9.00 – 9.30: Registration incl. coffee and tea

9.30 – 9.40: Welcome
Pro-vice-chancellor Søren Frandsen, Aarhus University

9.40 – 9.50: Introduction to the themes of the conference
Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University

9.50 – 10.50: Opening Address 1:
Climate change: The limits of science, the possibilities of deliberation

Professor Michael Hulme from the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia has recently written the book ‘Why we disagree about climatechange: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity’.

10.50 –11.15: Break: Coffee and tea

11.15 –12.30: Part 1: Climate change education as Education for Sustainable Development

Introduction on the International Alliance of Leading Education Institutes (IALEI) and the joint project climate change and education: the response from education.
Dean, Professor Lars Qvortrup, DPU, Aarhus University

Climate change and the need to re-think education
Dean, Professor Chris Husbands, Institute of Education, University of London

Recommendations and promising practices. Eeight recommendations from IALEI to policy decision-makers and five examples of promising practices.
Professor Jeppe Læssøe, DPU, Aarhus University

Lunch

Press conference with Dean Lars Qvortrup, Dean Chris Husbands and Professor Jeppe Læssøe.

13.30 – 16.00: Part 2: Climate communication: A weapon in the fight against climate change?

13.30 – 14.30: Opening address 2:

Bill Mckibben, co-founder and director of www.350.org, co-founder of 'International Day of Climate Action'.

14.30 – 15.00: A journalistic perspective
Journalist Andrew Revkin, The New York Times

15.00 – 15.30: A political perspective
Professor Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University

15.30 -16.00: Panel discussion and closing remarks

16.00 -17.00: Reception

Click here to register for the conference (opens a new window)
Admission is free (registration needed).

Venue
The Danish School of Education, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV

Time
11. december 2009 kl. 09.00 - 17.00

Posted 20/11 2009, 13:13 by Anders Raun in the category Generelt  |  0 Comments