RETHINKING OUR PRESENT
From Millenium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
19TH YOUNG SCIENTISTS MEETING– SANTARÉM- JANUARY 2017
STRUCTUREProblems caused by Climate Change
Measures to tackle it
International group project to get a better world.
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SCHOOLSo Colegio José Hernándezo Escuela Rubén Bravo Álvarezo IPVCE Che Guevarao CEIP Isidora Riestrao IES Luis Seoaneo IES Pazo da Mercéo Escola EB 2,3/Aquilino Ribeiroo Gimnazjum Nr 9
OBJECTIVESTo foster sustainable economic, social and cultural development
To promote a worldwide citizenship
To fight poverty, inequality and climate change
OBJECTIVE 13
From 1885 to 2012 global temperature rose 0.85 º
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Sea level rose, rainfall decreased
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
From 1990 CO2 emissions increased 50%
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Taking immediate measures to stop
climate change, the worst
environmental threat that humanity is currently
facing, and its effects
OBJECTIVE 13
Taking immediate measures to stop
climate change, the worst
environmental threat that humanity is currently
facing, and its effects
Running out natural resources
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Biodiversity is hreatened by draining fertile lands.
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Death rate, undernourishment and infections increase
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Terrible effects on women’s lives
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
The aforementioned effects are consequence of
Human irresponsibilityA lack of suitable policies regarding international cooperation
Economic system based on mass consumption
LOCAL ACTIONS
From our school, neighbourhood and city, we have taken several measures that contribute to alleviate these effects
AT LUÍS SEOANE
HIGH SCHOOLObjectives:
▪Saving energy▪Reducing garbage ▪Increasing
community awareness
MEASURES TAKEN:
✓ Traditional lighting system has been replaced by a LED bulb system
✓ Double windows have been installed to retainwarmth✓ Computer classrooms have now a more
extended use✓ Selective collection: paper, plastic, technological
garbage.✓ Campaigns on responsible consumption
IN OUR NEIGHBOURHO
OD: MONTE PORREIRO Objectives:
➢ Changing our purchase habits
➢ Raise awareness on Climate
Change
MEASURES TAKEN:
✓ Easy tips to promote selective collection at home✓ Recycling organic waste:
✓ Two composting bins looked after by a Fertilise Master: house waste reduced by half
✓ Fertilizer is then used in the urban vegetable patches
(looked after by children during the school year, by the elderly on holidays).
✓ Promoting the use of safe school paths by volunteers
MONTE PORREIROMonte Porreiro and
Campolongo composting bins will be
used by more than
8,000 neighbours
PONTEVEDRA: A ROLE
MODEL CITY
The urban remodelling of
Pontevedra started in 1999.
It focuses on a city concept where the human being and their activities are vital in urban life
Pontevedra has been internationally awarded with several prizes dealing with sustainable development.The measures taken show an eco-friendly city. Pontevedra is a role model city with more public spaces, social cohesion, economic activity, respect for and recovery of the environment and accessibility
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PONTEVEDRA
Results : more pedestrian areas, free
car park lots in the outskirts and maximum
speed 30 km/h.
➢ Road traffic diminished by 30 % in the city area and by 70 % in the city centre. 72 % of people walk or ride a bike.
➢ CO2 emissions decreased by 66 % in the city area and by 88 % in the city centre.
➢ Low environmental noise.
PONTEVEDRA
➢ Remarkable recovery of biodiversity: 228 tree species and 133 bird species.
➢ The Lérez river and its riverbanks have been totally cleaned up
PONTEVEDRA
The mayor of Pontevedra, Miguel
Anxo Fernández Lores, was invited to the COP21 in
Paris to explain the achievements
accomplished by this city model .
CONCLUSION
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Human activity has a negative impact on the planet’s life. However, these effects could be balanced if we took some measures in our school, our community, and our city that led us to a sustainable development.