We can all make a difference!
Climate Detectives is an ESA school project for students between 8 and 15 years old.
Students are challenged to ‘make a difference’ in understanding and protecting Earth’s climate. They will identify a climate problem by observing their local environment and be tasked to investigate it as ‘Climate Detectives’. To this end, they will use available Earth Observation data or take measurements on the ground.
Based on their investigation, teams will propose a way to help monitor or reduce the problem. At the end, all participating teams will share their research findings on the Climate Detectives website.
IIS Da Vinci's "Climate Detectives Team", made up of students of the 1M class, participated in the 2020/21 edition with the project "From global to local".
Students are challenged to ‘make a difference’ in understanding and protecting Earth’s climate. They will identify a climate problem by observing their local environment and be tasked to investigate it as ‘Climate Detectives’. To this end, they will use available Earth Observation data or take measurements on the ground.
Based on their investigation, teams will propose a way to help monitor or reduce the problem. At the end, all participating teams will share their research findings on the Climate Detectives website.
IIS Da Vinci's "Climate Detectives Team", made up of students of the 1M class, participated in the 2020/21 edition with the project "From global to local".
(Act) right here, right now!
To make a difference we act from now on - individually and in groups - with concrete actions to build a sustainable future and (try to) make a better world.
First of all, we have to improve our knowledge on climate-related sciences: we think that studying a problem in depth means to be halfway to find almost one of the practicable solutions.
Then we have to promote best practices and new technologies that reduce climate pollutant emissions (e.g. greenhouse gases): we will start from our school change it into "zero emissions school" with a 3-years "eco-plan".
Finally, we could propose some "risk mitigation measures" to the Municipality of our city, Civitanova Marche: reforestation of river banks, creation of lakes and canals to dispose floods and irrigation of crops, management of sewerage and other actions.
First of all, we have to improve our knowledge on climate-related sciences: we think that studying a problem in depth means to be halfway to find almost one of the practicable solutions.
Then we have to promote best practices and new technologies that reduce climate pollutant emissions (e.g. greenhouse gases): we will start from our school change it into "zero emissions school" with a 3-years "eco-plan".
Finally, we could propose some "risk mitigation measures" to the Municipality of our city, Civitanova Marche: reforestation of river banks, creation of lakes and canals to dispose floods and irrigation of crops, management of sewerage and other actions.
References and sitography
ESA climate office
https://climate.esa.int/en/
Responding to Climate Change
https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
Climate change isn’t a distant threat—it is happening now
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/
IPCC
https://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC Italia
https://ipccitalia.cmcc.it/
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
https://public.wmo.int/en
https://climate.esa.int/en/
Responding to Climate Change
https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
Climate change isn’t a distant threat—it is happening now
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/
IPCC
https://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC Italia
https://ipccitalia.cmcc.it/
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
https://public.wmo.int/en
