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Climate Change Adaptation
Handbook for High Schools

The handbook begins with an overview of climate change followed by an explanation of how climate-related risks arise from the interplay between climate-hazards, vulnerability, exposure, and adaptive capacity. To explore the impacts of climate change in a practical way, five overarching systems, referred to as target areas, are considered: ecosystems, food and water, human health, infrastructure, and socio-economics. For each target area, handbook describes how climate-related hazards have already affected them and outlines potential future conditions. Finally, it presents a series of proposed lines of adaptation for each target area to address the ongoing and expected impacts of climate change. You can download the handbook here

Climate Change Adaptation: 
Actors, Knowledge and Strategies.


Climate Change Adaptation: Actors, Knowledge and Strategies is an interactive document that presents the climate change adaptation triangle, which integrates the key components required to achieve successful adaptation to climate change: actors, knowledge, and policies and strategies. The document provides access to numerous websites for each component, allowing readers to explore each topic in greater depth. In the actors component, the document introduces the main international institutions and organisations, with particular emphasis on the European ones. The knowledge component highlights the main global and European data providers on climate change, as well as the most relevant international reports. Finally, the policies and strategies component presents key international frameworks and policies, focusing on European initiatives, and includes specific references to the national climate change adaptation plans of Finland, Spain, and Portugal. You can download the document here

Pedagogical plan, João da Rosa School, Portugal

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Pedagogical plan, Gaudia, Finland

The pedagogical plan at Lahti Upper Secondary School Gaudia is based on the European Competence Framework for Sustainable Development (GreenComp). The GreenComp Competence Framework defines a set of sustainability competence elements that can be integrated into the content of educational programmes and guide learners to adopt knowledge, skills and attitudes that promote empathetic and responsible thinking and action. Strengthening competence helps to move towards a fairer and greener economy and society. The GreenComp Competence Framework consists of four interconnected areas of sustainability competence. Each area of ​​competence includes three sustainability competences. Gaudia's pedagogical plan summarised the content of the GreenComp publication in an easy-to-read format for teachers. In addition, four upper secondary school teachers (physics, philosophy, biology and geography, and visual arts) considered how the goals of GreenComp can be linked to the national curriculum. You can download the pedagogical plan here.


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