This document discusses climate change and sustainable development. It describes how global temperatures have risen 0.85°C from 1885-2012 due to human activities like increased CO2 emissions. Climate change is causing sea level rise, decreased rainfall, threats to biodiversity, and increased death rates. To address these issues, a group of schools in Europe are taking local actions like installing LED lights and promoting recycling. At one high school, they are saving energy and reducing waste. In one neighborhood, residents are composting and using vegetable patches. The city of Pontevedra reduced road traffic by promoting walking and biking, lowering CO2 emissions. With sustainable policies, human impacts on the planet can be balanced.

1. RETHINKING OUR PRESENT
From Millenium Development Goals
to Sustainable Development Goals
19TH YOUNG SCIENTISTS MEETING– SANTARÉM- JANUARY 2017

2. STRUCTURE
Problems
caused by
Climate
Change
Measures to
tackle it

3. International group
project to get a better
world.
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SCHOOLS
o Colegio José Hernández
o Escuela Rubén Bravo Álvarez
o IPVCE Che Guevara
o CEIP Isidora Riestra
o IES Luis Seoane
o IES Pazo da Mercé
o Escola EB 2,3/Aquilino Ribeiro
o Gimnazjum Nr 9

4. OBJECTIVES
To foster sustainable economic,
social and cultural development
To promote a worldwide citizenship
To fight poverty, inequality and
climate change

5. OBJECTIVE 13
From 1885 to
2012 global
temperature
rose 0.85 º
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Sea level rose,
rainfall
decreased
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
From 1990
CO2
emissions
increased
50%
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Taking immediate
measures to stop
climate change, the
worst environmental
threat that humanity
is currently
facing, and its
effects

6. OBJECTIVE 13
Taking immediate
measures to stop
climate change, the
worst environmental
threat that humanity
is currently
facing, and its
effects
Running out
natural resources
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Biodiversity is
hreatened by
draining fertile
lands.
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Death rate,
undernourishment
and infections
increase
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS
Terrible effects on
women’s lives
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS

7. The aforementioned effects are consequence of
Human irresponsibility
A lack of suitable policies
regarding international
cooperation
Economic system based on
mass consumption

8. LOCAL ACTIONS
From our school,
neighbourhood and city,
we have taken several
measures that contribute to
alleviate these effects

9. AT LUÍS SEOANE
HIGH SCHOOL
Objectives:
▪ Saving energy
▪ Reducing
garbage
▪ Increasing
community
awareness
MEASURES TAKEN:
✓ Traditional lighting system has been replaced by
a LED bulb system
✓ Double windows have been installed to retain
warmth
✓ Computer classrooms have now a more
extended use
✓ Selective collection: paper, plastic, technological
garbage.
✓ Campaigns on responsible consumption

10. IN OUR
NEIGHBOURHOOD:
MONTE PORREIRO
Objectives:
➢ Changing our
purchase habits
➢ Raise awareness
on Climate
Change
MEASURES TAKEN:
✓ Easy tips to promote selective collection at home
✓ Recycling organic waste:
✓ Two composting bins looked after by a Fertilise Master:
house waste reduced by half
✓ Fertilizer is then used in the urban vegetable patches
(looked after by children during the school year, by the
elderly on holidays).
✓ Promoting the use of safe school paths by volunteers

11. MONTE PORREIRO

12. PONTEVEDRA: A
ROLE MODEL CITY
The urban remodelling
of Pontevedra started in
1999.
It focuses on a city
concept where the
human being and their
activities are vital in
urban life
Pontevedra has been internationally awarded with
several prizes dealing with sustainable
development.
The measures taken show an eco-friendly city.
Pontevedra is a role model city with more public
spaces, social cohesion, economic activity, respect
for and recovery of the environment and
accessibility
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13. PONTEVEDRA
Results : more pedestrian
areas, free car park lots in
the outskirts and maximum
speed 30 km/h.
➢ Road traffic diminished by 30 % in the city area and by 70 %
in the city centre. 72 % of people walk or ride a bike.
➢ CO2 emissions decreased by 66 % in the city area and by
88 % in the city centre.
➢ Low environmental noise.

14. PONTEVEDRA
➢ Remarkable recovery of biodiversity: 228 tree species and
133 bird species.
➢ The Lérez river and its riverbanks have been totally cleaned
up

15. PONTEVEDRA
The mayor of
Pontevedra, Miguel
Anxo Fernández
Lores, was invited to
the COP21 in Paris to
explain the
achievements
accomplished by
this city model .

16. CONCLUSION
Human activity has a negative impact on the planet’s
life. However, these effects could be balanced if we
took some measures in our school, our community,
and our city that led us to a sustainable development.