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What is the problem?

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

Floodmaps

Most of the Welsh population live within 20 miles of the sea. Find out how sea level will change your local area. The maps have all the function of Google maps and allow you to investigate different sea level rises for different parts of the world.  More

Biofuels

There is simply not enough agricultural land in the world to replace fossil fuels with biofuels. We will need to use them efficiently, as well as using other sources of power.

Average carbon footprint

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

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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