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✓ Traditional lighting system has been replaced by a LED bulb system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.