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Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

a) What kind of direct problems have been mentioned?

 

b) What solutions have been proposed?

 

c) What priority have these reports about climate change been given in the newspapers in your country?

 

d) Which headline caught your eye and impressed you the most? Explain the reason why.

 

e) Which headline would you give an article about climat change?

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

Why do you take part in this project?

We take part on Saturday when we have no class at all. We are in the middle of exams and we don't have much time but it is a good experience to learn what you guys in Switzerland have to say about climate change. We learn a lot about climate change. What is your project? What do you do to reduce CO2 levels? On the website www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/21/03/blank/blank/01.html

we found the following numbers: Switzerland's footprint is nearly four times larger than its biocapacity

It currently measures 5.0 global hectares (gha) per capita. Our country's biocapacity, however, is a mere 1.3 global hectares per capita. The main cause of this large footprint is the energy consumption : Energy accounts for three-fourths of the ecological footprint, making it the most significant factor overall. Moreover, the energy footprint has also grown more rapidly over the last few decades than any other factor. Use of cropland, forest and prairies is another major factor, accounting for 22% of the total footprint.

Switzerland lives at the cost of other world regions or future generations

Our country's ecological footprint has exceeded its biocapacity for several decades now. The only way to maintain this unsustainable lifestyle is either to drastically overexploit our own natural resources or to import natural resources from other countries.

Mankind consumes the Earth’s natural resources faster than the Earth’s regenerative capacity

The world’s per-capita biocapacity is 0.6 gha less than its per-capita footprint. Switzerland’s per capita footprint is about the same as the EU-15 average. North America and Western Europe consume up to five times more than world’s available biocapacity of 2.1 gha. The countries of Southeast Asia and Africa, in contrast, use up much less biocapacity per capita.

 

Asked by: Kantonsschule Alpenquai 5La | Green Acres

What do you do against climate change?

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