a)
1. People that I asked about climate changes were worried about too big consumption of unrenewable sources of energy. But anyway they are not too scared about climate changes.
2. In case of climate changes our country will have less own energy. Thesewhy we have to reduce it's consumption.
b)
The road of renewable sources is good example how we have to behave in future.
This article was published on Wednesday, 23rd of September 2009:
Slovenia Launches Small States Climate Change Initiative
Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar presented a new international initiative of Slovenia which envisages the formation of a special group of small countries that would help reach a global agreement on measures addressing climate change. Zbogar, who is attending the general debate of the 64th UN General Assembly meeting at the side of President Danilo Tuerk, held several bilateral meeting on Tuesday, while also attending an EU ministerial with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a dinner featuring representatives of NATO members. Clinton and her EU and NATO colleagues reportedly discussed the fate of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, climate change, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Afghanistan.
Zbogar meanwhile told the press that the Foreign Ministry had established a special department for global challenges, which has proposed the forming of a special G group, modeled on the G8 and G20 groups but featuring small countries and their joint effort in the fight against climate change. The minister also presented the initiative during his bilateral meetings on Tuesday. He spoke among others with his Cape Verde colleague Jose Brito, whose country has some experience in the field as a result of activities by the African renewable energy agency.
Zbogar also discussed the subject with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully. New Zealand has similar goals when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions as the EU, envisaging a 20% cut by 2020 or 30% in case of an international agreement.
While a meeting with Ossur Skarphedinsson of Iceland is scheduled in the coming days, Zbogar has also spoken with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jasem al-Thani and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov.
President Daniko Tuerk has also adopted a very active approach to climate change efforts in New York, first attending a climate change summit organised ahead of the general debate UN General Assembly. Participating in a panel debate, Tuerk said that the oil era was coming to an end, while the era of new technologies and environmental commitments was starting. This requires a new agreement in the fight against climate change, he concluded.
The visit to the road of renewable sources makes me feel that there is hope: My group wrote a report about the solar plant in Martjanci, a place in Prekmurje (north-eastern region of Slovenia), here it is:
A Visit to the Solar Power Plant
The solar power plant is in the village called Martjanci, which is in front of the Smart House. The solar power plant is made of 24 modules, which produce 5.16 kW of electrical power on a sunny day. The modules are hail proof.
The investment cost between 25000 – 27000 €. Whether the investment was worth buying is something that will be seen in 10 – 12 years.
The solar power plant is controlled by the computer. The energy produced by the solar power plant is very clean and environmentally friendly. Our opinion is that we should have more solar power plants to save the nature for our next generations!
Biomass is one of the most valuable renewable energy on Earth.
Now it is your turn to compile the questions 5 until 8. Carefully consider the best way of posing the questions in order to gain the best possible insight into the everyday views of your partner class.
The energy we use comes from different sources:
Fossil fuels (Crude oil, coal and others.): 35,2%
Hydro power: 27,3%
nuclear power: 36,8%
Wind, Solar and other renewable energy sources : 0,7%
Slovenia’s public transport system is unfortunatelly not as comprehensive as public transport in other EU countries as most people use their cars.
Some of us live very close to school, so we walk there, or sometimes parents give us a lift. But those, who are far from school are diving by bus or by train. And thoose who are many km away from home, just stay in a home, that is reserved for students and when weekend comes, they can go home to their family.
The highest mountain of Slovenia is called "Triglav" (2864 metres high) and I have never been on the top of the Triglav.
a)
I think that we would not make a lot of changes, because people still think that everything is OK and it is something normal what is happening at the moment. Just to turn the clock back and repair all the things would be great - if we could do that - but it is not possible. At the moment we need changes, not just image things.
a) I don 't know exactly. I can't imagine life without nature. All the rivers, forests, mountains, plains, all fields, animals living in the wild. All of this means very much to me and me is very bad when I see how some people destroy all nature, they cut forests and destroy the animals stay.
b) I think that we have a lot of choice about our life in future. But there's one problem, that Slovenia is a small country and some people don't know a lot about us. Because of that it's very hard to get famous and popular with the crownd in what you do.
a)
I like to hang out with my friends.
b)
I cannot really enjoy doing things very often. Time does not allow me. School and other activities are too much burden for me, so only at weekends when I don't have classes I really enjoy myself.
Now it’s your turn to compile the questions 12 until 16. Carefully consider the best way of posing questions in order to gain the best possible insight into the everyday views and lifestyle of society around you, and what is changing.
Actually, I do not know anything. Other than location of Tanzania.
The locals named it The Island of Love, on account of the fact that genuine love potion can be obtained there.
We could go on Triglav, our highest mountain together, we could go swimming in Terme Ptuj together. If you want to see our zoo, we can go to our zoo in Ljubljana or do many other things.
Dejan Zavec is the most known person in our country and in Ptuj today. Last year he became boxing world champion in his boxing category. He lives in Ptuj and he has got two children and a wife. He's nice and a very very simple person, which is what impresses me about him. He's medium height and he must train a lot for his results and because of that he became a very popular person.
18.a ) When there was a fire at a property in my village , the whole village gathered and tried to help. They organised really well and helped a lot . Without people helping it would be difficult to build things back up.
Once again, it’s your turn to present the questions 19 until 23: Compile 5 additional questions, suitable for people in your partner class to use, for example, in an interview with people on the street or people they know. Questions you really want to learn more about in order to get a good overall picture of the situation in your partner class.
We are very happy and grateful, because on this trip we found out lots of interesting and new things for us.
We hope, but not expect, that they are going to find proper solution.
We should use less gas, we should recycle and also we should use less electricity at home.
That is my opinion but in today world too many people look back for climate protection.
We can do many things as for example we can clear the surroundings, recycle, ... I recycle waste.
The most important things in my life are my friends and my family.
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