The UN Global Goal: Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

"Climate change is a real and undeniable threat to our entire civilization. The effects are already visible and will be catastrophic unless we act now. Through education, innovation and adherence to our climate commitments, we can make the necessary changes to protect the planet. These changes also provide huge opportunities to modernize our infrastructure which will create new jobs and promote greater prosperity across the globe."

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The Goal of Climate Action has 5 targets:

• Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related disasters
• Integrate climate change measures into policies and planning
• Build knowledge and capacity to meet climate change
• Implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management

Source: UNDP

Teaching Ideas:​​

• Start with off with a Climate Change Quiz to see what your class already knows
• Learn more about Greta Thunberg and inspire your students with her activism (see YouTube below)
• Read Greta and the Giants (see YouTube below)
• Watch a documentary about Climate Change – Before the Flood, An Inconvenient Truth, Chasing Ice, David Attenborough's A Life on This Planet or Tomorrow
• Read Climate Action: Why it Matters
• Learn about actions to mitigate climate change in your community
• For Ontario classrooms, learn about how climate change is affecting natural resources in Ontario
• Learn more about the reality of climate change
• Check out these Climate Change Infographics from Canadian Geographic
• Learn about Carbon Footprints
• Learn more at NASA's Climate Change Watch
• Use the book Just a Dream as a teaching tool for your class
• Learn about Canada's young climate change activists
• Use this kid-friendly and interactive website to teach about climate change
• NASA has a great website to introduce kids to climate change and to learn more about it
• A Warmer World for Arctic Animals
• Check out this great lesson called Antifreeze Animals to explore animal adaptation

Resources:​​

• ​https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-change-2/ 
• https://www.globalgoals.org/13-climate-action
• http://climatechangeconnection.org/resources/climate-friendly-schools/resources-for-schools/ 

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Goal 13: Climate Action - SDG Tracker

The UN explains: Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts.

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The Challenges

Here are the challenges for this month! ​​

Download a poster with March's challenges below

Tweet your students in action completing the challenges @changemakeclass