YALI GOES GREEN EVENT - Focus on: Understanding Climate Change.
A BOUT YALI GOES GREEN.
Temperatures are rising, weather is becoming more extreme and less predictable, and drought is an increasing danger for communities from California to the Sahel. For many around the globe, dire predictions and warnings have been how citizens have learned about the dangers of climate change. In this course, the focus is on the science of how climate change occurs, the impact on the environment and human development, and practical and innovative solutions to address the causes of climate change while meeting the needs of the world.
Have you heard about #YALIGoesGreen? After you earn your certificate on Understanding Climate Change, join a Network-wide initiative to spur climate change awareness and action. Become a Green Champion and learn more at yali.state.gov/climate.
Have you heard about #YALIGoesGreen? After you earn your certificate on Understanding Climate Change, join a Network-wide initiative to spur climate change awareness and action. Become a Green Champion and learn more at yali.state.gov/climate.
The event will thus involve the following:
1. Arrival and introduction ofparticipants
2. Team orientation to the Young Africa Leaders Initiative website and the available free online resources.
3. Presentation on Environmental issues leading to climate change.
4. Watching of the online Environmental Video clips by YALI team (Melanie Nakagawa & Wanjira Mathai)
5. Taking of online Quiz by participants.
6. Printing of members certificate.
7. Simple environmental activity (clean up) within the National Environmental Management Authority compound.
8. Brief closing speech (encourage members to go out and implement the acquired skills ) Awards of the certificates, and closure of the event.
9. Group photos and socialization.
Sequence of the lessons.
Understanding Climate Change Lessons:
Lesson 1: The Basics: The Science of Climate Change – A primer on the basic science of climate change, examining the differences between climate and weather and how scientists determine that the planet is getting hotter. This lesson also takes a detailed look at greenhouse gases – what they are, the role of human behavior in releasing them, and their effect on climate change.Lesson 2: The Impacts: How Climate Change Affects Africa – This lesson takes a look at the very real effects of climate change on human and animal populations and migration, rainfall-dependent agriculture and the serious problems of drought and changes in typical precipitation patterns, and the intensification of illnesses such as mosquito borne diseases and respiratory and cardiovascular sickness.
Lesson 3: The Solutions: Taking Action to Reduce Climate Change – Learn about technologies – big and small – that are being used to reduce the effects of climate change, including solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, as well as the importance of preserving and maintaining forests and what you can do to help stop climate change.
