COP 15 – The political dimension

News on the climate from COP15
Click here to read the news on climate from COP15 

What is happening right now? – COP15 on Twitter
Click here to open COP15 on twitter

How hot is it now? – and how hot will it become? climate map from climatehotmap
Click here to open the climatehotmap 

Blogs from climate thinkers on COP15
Click here to open the climate blog from COP15

 

Climate dictionary
Many different technical terms, which the pupils probably will ask about, are introduced throughout the study. To help with this, both COP15 and UNFCCC have produced a dictionary with the most common technical terms:
Click here to open the official dictionary from COP15
Click here to open UNFCC C’s comprehensive climate dictionary 

 

Blogs, wiki’s, lexicons
On the internet, you may to discuss with other pupils from all over the world – this may take place via blogs for instance. There is also access to many different reference books, and you may cooperate with other people from all over the world on a wiki article. In short – the internet gives a hitherto unseen opportunity to discuss and bring forward your opinion. A couple of examples:

 

Blogs about climate change:
Realclimate.org (Scientists):  http://www.realclimate.org/ 
Climateark (private person) http://www.climateark.org/blog/ 

Wiki’s and lexicons about climate change
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change (c) wikipedia
Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Climate_Change (c) wikibooks 

 

Picture series relating to climate change:

There are many shows on Flickr, for instance:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/
or try to search for ”climate change pictures” on a search engine.

 

Find a class to cooperate with nationally or internationally

CO2nnect - school campaign on climate
Click here to open CO2NNECT 

 

eTwinning - european school cooperation
Click here to open the eTwinning portal from EU 

 

ECO-schools
Click here to vist the ECO-Schools website