HOPE E-COURSE STUDENTS -ENGLISH FINAL

Generating prior knowledge

This question is meant to retrieve your prior knowledge of de SDGs:

question dialogues:
In which way can you connect the SDG's to climate change? Try to assess all SDGs and connect them to climate change.

(h5p SDGs)

Answer:
The link between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change is intricate and essential. Climate change is explicitly addressed within the SDGs, primarily through Goal 13: "Climate Action." However, the interconnection extends beyond this specific goal. 

Here's how climate change is linked to the broader framework of the SDGs:

1. Goal 13 - Climate Action: This goal directly focuses on taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It encompasses targets such as strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters, integrating climate change measures into national policies, and promoting education and awareness on climate change mitigation.

2. Cross-Cutting Nature of Climate Change: Climate change has wide-ranging impacts on various aspects of sustainable development. It affects food security, water resources, health, and poverty, among others. Therefore, addressing climate change is critical to achieving multiple SDGs, including those related to ending hunger (Goal 2), ensuring clean water and sanitation (Goal 6), and promoting good health and well-being (Goal 3).

3. Economic Implications: Climate change poses economic challenges, impacting industries, livelihoods, and overall economic stability. Mitigating climate change and building resilience are essential for sustainable economic development, aligning with goals such as decent work and economic growth (Goal 8) and industry, innovation, and infrastructure (Goal 9).

4. Environmental Sustainability: Climate action is closely tied to environmental sustainability. Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect ecosystems contribute to goals related to responsible consumption and production (Goal 12) and life below water and on land (Goals 14 and 15).

5. Global Cooperation: Climate change requires international cooperation, reflecting the interconnected nature of the issue. Goal 17, which emphasizes partnerships for the goals, is crucial for addressing climate change effectively. Collaboration is needed to share knowledge, technology, and financial resources to support climate action globally.

In essence, climate change is a cross-cutting issue that influences and is influenced by various aspects of sustainable development. Integrating climate action into the broader framework of the SDGs reflects the understanding that achieving sustainability and addressing climate change are mutually reinforcing goals.

After this brief review of last week, we will now continue with the course.

Welcome to the second week of this course. In the next few days, you will focus on climate change. By looking at the Youtube-clips, and reading the suggested articles and websites, you will learn more about this complex phenomenon.

In short: climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns. Climate change is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions, resulting from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to climate change, accounting for over 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions blanket the earth and trap the sun’s heat. 

This leads to global warming and climate change, posing many risks to human beings and other forms of life.

 This week’s work:

1.      Check these YouTube-video's: 

Europe’s climate in 2050

CLIMATE CHANGE 2023: Synthesis Trailer

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability

What Is Climate Change?

 2.      Read Chapter 1 paragraph 1.1. of the WHO report Heat and Health in the WHO European Region: Updated Evidence for effective prevention (2021).  

3.      Check the website of the IPCC- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and :  

4.      Look at the following presentation 

4.      Finally, to get a clear overview, from the United Nations about Climate change click on this link, and discover what's written on this website about climate change.  (https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change)

 Knowledge check:

To check whether all this information comes together around understanding the phenomenon of climate change, you could make a flow diagram of causes and signs of climate change. 

After you are finished with this, please check your diagram with the ones that can be found on the internet, and see whether or not you have missed some important factors.