Climate change

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Presented by: Dauirbaeva D.S.

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Climate change includes both the
global warming driven by human
emissions of greenhouse gases, and
the resulting large-scale shifts in
weather patterns. Though there have
been previous periods of climatic
change, since the mid-20th century
the rate of human impact on Earth's
climate system and the global scale
of that impact have been
unprecedented

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Education is an essential element of the
global response to climate change. It helps
people understand and address the impact of
global warming, increases “climate literacy”
among young people, encourages changes in
their attitudes and behaviour, and helps them
adapt to climate change related trends.
Climate change education is part of UNESCO’s
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
programme. In 2014 UNESCO launched the
Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD, the
official follow-up to the UN Decade of ESD,
with climate change as a critical thematic
focus. UNESCO aims to make climate change
education a more central and visible part of the
international response to climate change.