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Climate Change: A Global ChallengeStrategies for Building Community Resilience

for safe community environments disaster resilient societies.



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Climate change: a Global challenge

• Temperatures are increasing in many parts of the planet

• This is caused by build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs)

• Continued GHG emissions at or above current rates would causefurther warming and change in our climatic system

• Most of the increase in average temperatures is due to increase in

GHG concentrations mainly by produced by human beings

• Between 1970 and 2004, global GHG emissions by human activities

have increased by 70%



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Impact of climate change

• Increases in global average air and ocean temperatures

• Rising global average sea level

• Widespread melting of snow and ice



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Impact of climate change

• More frequent droughts, floods and other forms of extreme weather

• Food supplies will be at danger

• Many plants and animals will not survive

• Rising sea levels will force hundreds of thousands of people in

coastal zones to migrate



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Impact of climate change on children

• More than 46% of the world's population is below 25 years.

• Approximately 175 million children will be affected by climate changeinduced natural disasters every year over the next decade.

• Children are more likely than adults to perish during natural disasters or succumb to malnutrition, injuries or disease.

• Women and children account for more than 75% of displaced peoplefollowing natural disasters.



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UNEP and climate change

• UNEP has more than 20 years of experience working on climate change

• Climate change is one of the 6 thematic priorities of UNEP’s Medium-TermStrategy (2009 to 2013)

• UNEP has scaled up its

climate change activities

with partners and stakeholders

• Cooperation with the Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Cooperation with the UN Framework

Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)



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UNEP Medium-Term Strategy 2010-2013:

“To strengthen the ability of countries to integrate climate changeresponses into national development processes"

UNEP is helping governments to:

a) Ensure that climate change adaptation is integrated into developmentprocesses

b) Make choices that lead to reduction in GHG emissions

c) Improve the deployment and transfer of better and efficient technology

d) Improve land use, reduce deforestation & land degradation – increasecarbon sequestration

e) Ensure that policy-makers, civil society and private sector have access toclimate change science and information



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Mitigation

UNEP has launched a major worldwide tree

planting campaign – The Billion Tree Campaign.The goal is to encourage people, communities,

business, industry, civil society organizations and

governments to plant at least seven billion trees

Worldwide by end of 2009.

Currently 2.5 billion planted and 4.1 billion pledged



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The Climate Neutral Network (CN Net)

UNEP has established CN Net to assist those interested in

achieving big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to reachtheir goals.

- CN Net publicizes climate neutrality plans and achievements;

- CN Net acts as a network for those who aspire to climate neutrality

- CN Net brings developed and developing country participantstogether to green the development path and support the MDGs

http://www.climateneutral.unep.org/cnn_frontpage.aspx?m=49



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Adaptation activities by UNEP

• Hosts International consultation meetings on

development of adaptation network;

• Runs adaptation training workshops;

• Provides technical notes for preparations of national

programmes of action;

• Provides technical support to countries on data.



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UNEP and young people

• UNEP has a long term strategy on the engagement and

involvement of children in environmental issues called

Tunza (Kiswahili for treat with care and affection)

• It started in 2003 and ends in 2008

• The 2nd Tunza strategy will run from

2009 to 2014.

• Annual Tunza conferences for children• and youth: where issues of climate

• change are discussed.



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Why environmental education?

• Addressing environmental issues requires a citizenry that is

- informed and environmentally literate

- willing to translate its knowledge

into action

- Environmental education is fundamental!



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What is environmental education?

• Teaching about how natural environments function

• Making people aware of environmental issues

• Promoting an understanding of the relationship between humansand their surrounding environment

• Desired outcomes:

– creating a concern for environmental issues – evoking environmentally responsible behaviour

– promoting environment protecting activities



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What can teachers do?Teachers are often identified as important agents of change in society

- They play an important role in improving human capacity in environmental

awareness, protection and problem-solving

- Teachers require the knowledge, skills, on environmental awareness in order

to include this in their school programme



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What can teachers impart to their students?

• To turn off appliances, heating and air conditioning

• To turn off and unplug computer and other electronic devices

• To encourage the parents and relatives to change the light bulbs to energyefficient ones

• To recycle papers or reuse bottles, chopsticks and plastics

• To join or create an eco-club

• To plant trees• To choose products that are environmentally friendly

• To walk, cycle or take a train or bus instead of the private car

• To try to use less. For example, to carry a cloth bag when going shopping insteadof plastic bags

• To encourage family and friends to do these things

• To write to political leaders asking for cleaner cars, better public transport or

renewable energy• To participate in activities on climate change



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