For Schools

What Can Schools Do?

LEARN & EDUCATE

Schools can play a very important role in making students and their parents aware of individual contributions to climate change, and the ways in which one can reduce global warming.

Share the 1.5°C Living Children’s book with your students. 

Book
『はかって、へらそうCO2 1.5℃大作戦』では、次世代を担う子ども向けに、私たちの日常生活が気候変動に与える影響や持続可能な未来のためにできる行動を、科学的根拠に基づきわかりやすく、また子どもにも身近な事例や説明を用いて監修しました。「①はかる編」では、気候変動緩和の必要性を総合的に解説した上で、ライフスタイルカーボンフットプリントの考え方を紹介。自分の生活に関連してどれだけの温室効果ガスが排出されているのかを簡易計算できるワークシートを使って、理解を深めます。 IGESの報告書『 1.5℃ライフスタイル―脱炭素型の暮らしを実現する選択肢―』を軸に、パリ協定の目標達成と豊かな暮らしの両立を子どもにもわかりやすく解説 なぜ1.5℃目標が大切なのか、地球温暖化対策の歴史...
Book
『はかって、へらそうCO2 1.5℃大作戦』では、次世代を担う子ども向けに、私たちの日常生活が気候変動に与える影響や持続可能な未来のためにできる行動を、科学的根拠に基づきわかりやすく、また子どもにも身近な事例や説明を用いて監修しました。「②へらす編」では、すまい、移動、食べもの、消費財の4つの領域で温室効果ガス削減につながる実践的な選択肢を提示。さらに、その輪を広げるためのヒントも紹介しています。 IGESの報告書『 1.5℃ライフスタイル―脱炭素型の暮らしを実現する選択肢―』を軸に、パリ協定の目標達成と豊かな暮らしの両立を子どもにもわかりやすく解説 なぜ1.5℃目標が大切なのか、地球温暖化対策の歴史、国内外の最新動向などを網羅的に概観 地球温暖化以外の環境影響や他国、産業の視点を盛り込み...
Introduce low carbon lifestyles to students, similar to Yokohama school.
Introduce low carbon lifestyles to students, similar to Yokohama school.
The books and seminar do not describe one way of practicing 1.5C lifestyles, and instead explore possible options for ideal society together with children.
The books and seminar do not describe one way of practicing 1.5°C lifestyles, and instead explore possible options for ideal society together with children.

If you are interested in inviting IGES experts to organise workshops, pilot programs or create a 1.5°C Lifestyles guide for your school,
please contact us at: [email protected]

School Seminars

Student Views on 1.5°C Lifestyles

In considering actions to move towards a decarbonized lifestyle in 2050, we should respect childrens’ decisions about their lifestyles, since they will be the main actors of this lifestyle in 2050. Therefore, the choices made by children will be very important triggers for the promotion of such lifestyles. IGES conducted a series of 9 participatory workshops of 75 minutes each with about 300 children aged 13-15 at a public junior high school in Yokohama. During the workshop, workshop facilitators from IGES requested the children to think and discuss what kind of lifestyle they would like to adopt and how to achieve it, with the aim of a zero-carbon society in 2050.

The methodology for the participatory process designed and applied in a series of workshops for adults was carefully tailored to the children aged 13-15, especially in explaining the impact of lifestyle choices on global warming and the concept of lifestyle related carbon footprints, as well as how everyday decisions and actions are linked to solving the problem of global warming. Since children are largely dependent on the lifestyles of their families, they are less able than adults to make decisions about their own lifestyles. IGES’ team presented a range of lifestyle choices that children should be able to consider, as well as a limited number of lifestyle choices they were likely to consider, and then asked them to think about which lifestyle choices they would be more or less likely to implement. The results showed that overall, regardless of grade, children were more likely to be comfortable with the long-term use of products and less likely to be comfortable with vegetarianism, which is different from adults.