Good morning and Welcome to the Climate Change Wales website.

09.09.2010 | Cymraeg

Teachers:

Design

Most energy comes from burning fossil fuels. This produces greenhouse gases which add to climate change. Designers need to think about the energy used in the production and use of products. The future of designing is in products that will benefit people and the planet. More...

What makes up a Carbon Footprint?

This is perhaps the most obvious contribution to our carbon footprint. When fossil fuels are burnt they produce CO₂ which has been locked away for millions of years is released. It is the rapid increase in our fossil fuel use that has caused global warming.More....

Average carbon footprint

The average carbon footprint per person in the UK is 10 tonnes, with some regional variations more...

What is the problem?

What is the problem?
There are 30 million vehicles on the road in the UK. Each mile a small petrol car travels releases 280 g of CO₂ and for a small diesel car 190g of CO₂ is released. Driving 2400 miles is the equivalent to the total carbon footprint of the average person in the developing world.
Figures from WRI

The Big Climate Change Debate - How to play your part.

This page contains supporting information for the "The Big Climate Change Debate - How to play your part pack".

To download or request a hard copy please visit

www.wales.gov.uk/climatechange

www.walescarbonfootprint.gov.uk

The pack includes a set of activities including “top trumps” cards, role-play cards and climate change research opportunities to engage pupils in the climate change debate and the COP15 process. These can form the basis of full lessons or can be used as shorter activities in the context of other curriculum areas.

Two activities (1 and 6) in particular refer to additional information from this website.

Activity 1:Human Graphs

Graph 3, This activity uses the students in the class to produce a scatter graph to compare factors on the information on the country cards. A spreadsheet with the data is available for download here for students to produce their own graphs using Excel or similar.

Carbon footprint. This is one element of the eco footprint which is calculated by converting the various green house gas emissions into tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Students can find out what makes up a carbon footprint here

More detailed information and footprinting data sets can be found here www.footprintnetwork.org

Activity sheet 6: Online Flood map

Make a list of countries which have a coastline? Use an atlas or the online flood map decide which countries are at risk from sea level rise

If you have questions or feedback for the author please get in touch tim@ecocentre.org.uk

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