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Students from more than 70 countries are planning a massive global protest this Friday against inaction* on climate change, led by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.
It could be one of the biggest environmental protests the world has seen.
Greta began a weekly 'school strike for climate' on August 20 last year. Then 15, Greta rode her bicycle to sit on the cobblestones* in front of Stockholm's Parliament House with a handpainted sign that said 'skolstrejk för klimatet', which is 'school strike for climate' in Swedish.
Thousands of students around the world have since copied her. Youth organisations are calling for a strike on Friday and Greta understands there will be more than 700 protest locations.
'I think this movement is very important. It not only makes people aware, and makes people talk about it more, but also to show the people in power that this is the most important thing there is,' she told news agency Reuters.
Greta has almost 250,000 followers on social media platform Twitter where her movement carries the hashtags #FridaysForFuture and #SchoolStrike4Climate.
A TEDx* talk she delivered on climate change now carried on TED's main website has had more than 1.2 million views and last month Greta joined protests in Belgium, where she won a European Union pledge* to spend billions of euros* to combat climate change.
'I think the most fun thing is to watch all the pictures around the world of hundreds of thousands of children school striking for the climate,' she said.
She has also had an impact on her parents, author and actor Svante Thunberg and opera singer Malena Ernman.
Inspired by their daughter's concern for the environment, the pair have stopped flying and have adopted vegan* diets as part of their efforts to live more environmentally sustainable lives, Svante Thunberg told a climate conference in Katowice, Poland, in December.
Greta said she wants Sweden to adhere* to the Paris Agreement, part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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'I've said that I will continue to strike every Friday until Sweden is in line with the Paris Agreement,' she said. 'That may take a couple of years and I'll just have to try to be patient.'
UN PARIS AGREEMENT
The goal of the United Nations* Paris Agreement is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial* levels and to limit the increase to 1.5C, since this would reduce the effects of climate change.
The Paris Agreement is a 2015 document signed by 195 countries.
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Under the agreement, each country must plan for and report on what it is doing to limit global warming. When it rains, it pours!.
Sweden, Greta's home country, is a signatory* to the Paris Agreement.
Australia is also a signatory to the Paris Agreement.
There is much disagreement among Australians, including politicians, business people and scientists, about whether Australia is doing enough to meet its Paris Agreement targets and how best to do so.
GLOSSARY
- inaction: not taking action
- cobblestones: stone blocks used in olden times for roads
- pledge: promise
- euros: money of Europe
- vegan: don't eat animal products
- adhere: stick to
- United Nations: organisation for international co-operation
- pre-industrial: before the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s
- signatory: someone who has signed up
EXTRA READING
Pupils learn the power of the pen
QUICK QUIZ
- What has Greta done once a week since last August? Why?
- What did Greta do in Belgium?
- Name two things Greta's parents have changed to help the environment?
- What are the goals of the Paris Agreement?
- Did Australia sign the Paris Agreement?
LISTEN TO THIS STORY
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
1. Learning About Climate Change
As a class watch Greta Thunberg's speech about climate change and why she believes we need to take action (11-minute video).
You can view the Tedx talk at:
https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate?language=en#t-18689
While you are watching, take some notes about the following questions.
What is climate change?
How do we stop it?
Why do we need to act?
Share your notes with a partner to see if you picked up the same or different information from Greta's speech.
Time: allow 20 minutes to complete this activity
Curriculum Links: English, Critical & Creative Thinking, Science
2. Extension
Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old student trying, and possibly succeeding to make a difference in the world. Do you consider her an inspiration or role model? Give your reasons. Does it inspire you to try to make a positive change somewhere?
Time: allow 10 minutes to complete this activity
Curriculum Links: Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capabilities & English
VCOP ACTIVITY
With a partner see if you can identify all the doing words/verbs in this text. Highlight them in yellow and then make a list of them all down your page. Now see if you and your partner can come up with a synonym for the chosen verb. Make sure it still makes sense in the context it was taken from.
Try to replace some of the original verbs with your synonyms and discuss if any are better and why.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Should children protest against inaction on climate change? Can they make a difference?
No one-word answers. Use full sentences to explain your thinking. Comments will not show until approved by editors.
There are an estimated 140 million orphans worldwide. each one deserves a loving family that will provide a permanent home.
Thankfully, Americans are responding to this need as, every year, our nation welcomes more
children into homes through international adoption than any other nation.
Below we have general information on the International Adoption Process, The Hague Adoption Convention, and how you can learn more about beginning your own adoption journey.
Children of the World currently offers international adoption programs for India and China.
Learn more about
INTERNATIONAL Adoption process
The adoption process varies from country to country, but the majority of inter-country adoptions follow the same basic steps:
Selecting your adoption service provider
Gaining approval to adopt
Being matched with a child
Adopting or obtaining legal custody of the child in the foreign country
Applying for a visa for the child to move to the United States
Traveling home with your child
To complete an adoption abroad and bring a child into the United States, you must fulfill the requirements of three separate governmental authorities:
The foreign country in which the child resides
U.S. federal immigration
Your state of residence.
Consequently, there are numerous documents required, and the process can be both complex and lengthy, but your adoption service provider is there to walk you through each step and help you navigate all three systems.
To review the minimum criteria to adopt from one of our International Adoption Programs, Click Here.
THE HAGUE adoption convention
Much of intercountry adoption is governed by the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. The Hague Adoption Convention is an international agreement to safeguard intercountry adoption. The principles of the Convention include:
Ensuring that Intercountry adoption takes place in the best interest of children
Preventing the abduction, exploitation, sale, or trafficking of children
Facilitating communication between Central Authorities in countries of origin and destination countries
Therefore, many of the children available for adoption internationally have mild to severe special needs and are considered un-adoptable in their native country. Without loving and caring adoptive parents outside their native countries, these children would never have forever families.
Children of the World is pleased to be licensed in China and India to place children with loving U.S. families. Many of these children have very mild or already corrected medical diagnoses. Some have very severe conditions. All of our families are free to designate specific conditions or degree of special needs that they feel prepared to parent.
For a more complete overview of intercountry adoption, visit the US State Department website here.
Inspired by their daughter's concern for the environment, the pair have stopped flying and have adopted vegan* diets as part of their efforts to live more environmentally sustainable lives, Svante Thunberg told a climate conference in Katowice, Poland, in December.
Greta said she wants Sweden to adhere* to the Paris Agreement, part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Adoptive Difference: New Evidence On How Adopted Children ..
'I've said that I will continue to strike every Friday until Sweden is in line with the Paris Agreement,' she said. 'That may take a couple of years and I'll just have to try to be patient.'
UN PARIS AGREEMENT
The goal of the United Nations* Paris Agreement is to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial* levels and to limit the increase to 1.5C, since this would reduce the effects of climate change.
The Paris Agreement is a 2015 document signed by 195 countries.
International Adoptions At A Glance - Children's House ..
Under the agreement, each country must plan for and report on what it is doing to limit global warming. When it rains, it pours!.
Sweden, Greta's home country, is a signatory* to the Paris Agreement.
Australia is also a signatory to the Paris Agreement.
There is much disagreement among Australians, including politicians, business people and scientists, about whether Australia is doing enough to meet its Paris Agreement targets and how best to do so.
GLOSSARY
- inaction: not taking action
- cobblestones: stone blocks used in olden times for roads
- pledge: promise
- euros: money of Europe
- vegan: don't eat animal products
- adhere: stick to
- United Nations: organisation for international co-operation
- pre-industrial: before the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s
- signatory: someone who has signed up
EXTRA READING
Pupils learn the power of the pen
QUICK QUIZ
- What has Greta done once a week since last August? Why?
- What did Greta do in Belgium?
- Name two things Greta's parents have changed to help the environment?
- What are the goals of the Paris Agreement?
- Did Australia sign the Paris Agreement?
LISTEN TO THIS STORY
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
1. Learning About Climate Change
As a class watch Greta Thunberg's speech about climate change and why she believes we need to take action (11-minute video).
You can view the Tedx talk at:
https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate?language=en#t-18689
While you are watching, take some notes about the following questions.
What is climate change?
How do we stop it?
Why do we need to act?
Share your notes with a partner to see if you picked up the same or different information from Greta's speech.
Time: allow 20 minutes to complete this activity
Curriculum Links: English, Critical & Creative Thinking, Science
2. Extension
Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old student trying, and possibly succeeding to make a difference in the world. Do you consider her an inspiration or role model? Give your reasons. Does it inspire you to try to make a positive change somewhere?
Time: allow 10 minutes to complete this activity
Curriculum Links: Critical & Creative Thinking, Personal & Social Capabilities & English
VCOP ACTIVITY
With a partner see if you can identify all the doing words/verbs in this text. Highlight them in yellow and then make a list of them all down your page. Now see if you and your partner can come up with a synonym for the chosen verb. Make sure it still makes sense in the context it was taken from.
Try to replace some of the original verbs with your synonyms and discuss if any are better and why.
HAVE YOUR SAY: Should children protest against inaction on climate change? Can they make a difference?
No one-word answers. Use full sentences to explain your thinking. Comments will not show until approved by editors.
There are an estimated 140 million orphans worldwide. each one deserves a loving family that will provide a permanent home.
Thankfully, Americans are responding to this need as, every year, our nation welcomes more
children into homes through international adoption than any other nation.
Below we have general information on the International Adoption Process, The Hague Adoption Convention, and how you can learn more about beginning your own adoption journey.
Children of the World currently offers international adoption programs for India and China.
Learn more about
INTERNATIONAL Adoption process
The adoption process varies from country to country, but the majority of inter-country adoptions follow the same basic steps:
Selecting your adoption service provider
Gaining approval to adopt
Being matched with a child
Adopting or obtaining legal custody of the child in the foreign country
Applying for a visa for the child to move to the United States
Traveling home with your child
To complete an adoption abroad and bring a child into the United States, you must fulfill the requirements of three separate governmental authorities:
The foreign country in which the child resides
U.S. federal immigration
Your state of residence.
Consequently, there are numerous documents required, and the process can be both complex and lengthy, but your adoption service provider is there to walk you through each step and help you navigate all three systems.
To review the minimum criteria to adopt from one of our International Adoption Programs, Click Here.
THE HAGUE adoption convention
Much of intercountry adoption is governed by the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. The Hague Adoption Convention is an international agreement to safeguard intercountry adoption. The principles of the Convention include:
Ensuring that Intercountry adoption takes place in the best interest of children
Preventing the abduction, exploitation, sale, or trafficking of children
Facilitating communication between Central Authorities in countries of origin and destination countries
Therefore, many of the children available for adoption internationally have mild to severe special needs and are considered un-adoptable in their native country. Without loving and caring adoptive parents outside their native countries, these children would never have forever families.
Children of the World is pleased to be licensed in China and India to place children with loving U.S. families. Many of these children have very mild or already corrected medical diagnoses. Some have very severe conditions. All of our families are free to designate specific conditions or degree of special needs that they feel prepared to parent.
For a more complete overview of intercountry adoption, visit the US State Department website here.
'I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.' John 14:18
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