WAB Learns: ES Sustainable Development Goals: 13. Climate Action

SDG Tracker Group D

What is the IPPC?

IPPC's ^th Report
IPCC 9 August 2021: In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science
IPPC 2022
What the IPCC Report tells us about the need for radical climate action

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report is the latest set of IPCC reports that provide policymakers with the scientific knowledge on issues concerning #climatechange.

5 Big Findings from the IPCC’s 2021 Climate Report
The IPCC Working Group I sixth assessment report shows that the world will probably reach or exceed 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) of warming within just the next two decades.

Websites & Videos

Climate Change: Current information on various effects climate change has and initiatives from around the world.
Climate Central: An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the public.
Sea Levels: Harvard Uni article
Bangladesh: The country disappearing under rising tides

Why Should We Worry About Sea Level Change?
Around 250 million people live by the coast, less than 5 m above the sea. Changes in sea level affect people through flooding, when water in rivers cannot flow into the ocean because the sea is too high and when seawater surges onto the land during storms. If the sea water finds its way to farms and reservoirs, it can harm our drinking water and our ability to grow crops. Because of this, knowledge of how and why sea level is changing is of importance to society.

Despite the cCld, the World is Definitely Getting Warmer

Text set - Climate Action
It may not seem so this week, but the world is getting warmer. ...

Climate Data

Immersive data visualisations: Climate action, presented at UN General Assembly, 2020
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
Query, map, compare, chart and summarize key climate and climate-related information.
Climate & Health Country Profiles (WHO)
Country-specific information about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Climate, socio-economic and environmental data, both from the past and also in scenarios projected into the future.
EPA - Models, Tools, and Databases for Climate Change Research
WHO | SDG Target 13.1 | Natural disasters
How climate has changed through time
For those seeking to deny the realities of climate change, a popular counterpoint is simply: "The climate has changed before." It is a straightforward argument. And, it is difficult to refute. Thankfully, the amusing xkcd comic has a visualization showing just how misleading this statement can be.

Our Planet Series & Resources

Our Planet: Classroom Resources & Biome Tours
Videos and teaching resources for the Netflix/Attenborough series "Our Planet". Includes making-of videos, issues, success stories and WWF action sites.
Our Planet: What Can I Do?
Today we have become the greatest threat to the health of our planet. We're the first generation to know what we're doing, and the last who have a chance to put things right. Classroomm resources, "how to" clips and action sites.

Newsela Text Set: SDG 13: Climate Action (PYPx UPDATED 2022)

Text set - SDG 13: Climate Action (PYPx UPDATED 2022)
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BrainPop: Climate Change

Resources on Climate Action - watch the video as well!

Epic Books: Climate Action

Epic Books Text Set - Climate Action
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How to Read EPIC Books?
CLICK on books above then:
STUDENTS: Click any cover. Enter class code hbd2871 and choose GUEST
TEACHERS: Click START READING. Add to your Collection & assign to students.

Epic Videos: Climate Action

Epic Books Text Set - Climate Action
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Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on the climate crisis

Greta Thunberg

Video - Air Pollution (from BrainPop)

Air Pollution (BrainPop)
Climate Change: Brain Pop
The heat is on … and temperatures are rising to unprecedented levels all across the planet. In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby explain how naturally occurring greenhouse gases in our atmosphere once helped transform Earth into a temperate and pleasant place.
Air Pollution BrainPop Quiz
Don't forget to do the quiz!

ES Sustainable Development Goals: 13. Climate Action

SDG13: Books