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A message to our leaders

submitted by St.Aloysius College Sixth Form : SAC Green Team  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Finalist

Keeping within the COP26, theme, St. Aloysius created a video to broadcast a message to our leaders who represented us at such a pivotal international summit.

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COP26 Green Team Dialogue with Balay Laudato Si’ Mindanao, Philippines

submitted by St.Aloysius College Sixth Form : SAC Green Team  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Comprehending the climate crisis enables one to perceive the global immensity of the dilemma. Digitally crossing overseas from Malta to the Philippines, Green Team members were honoured to share their time speaking with students from Balay Laudato Si’ in Mindanao and discuss the diverse impacts climate change has inflicted on our respective environments. Attached is an abridged version of the transcript of the dialogue

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please use philosophy in the fight against climate change, an article addressed to Politicians

submitted by St.Aloysius College Sixth Form : SAC Green Team  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Participation

Philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times.

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Energy Sources and Climate Change

submitted by St. Aloysius College Malta : SAC Green Team  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Participation

“Globally, the use of energy represents by far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. About two thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions are linked to burning fossil fuels for energy to be used for heating, electricity, transport and industry” – With energy being so significantly interwoven with the climate crisis, how is the burning of finite fossil fuels still permissible? What renewable alternatives can countries adopt instead?

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Differences in Surface Temperature readings across the Maltese Islands

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Eco-schools Committee  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, other, school noticeboard, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Finalist

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at Xrobb l-Għaġin (XGĦ) Nature Park and GLOBE Malta launched the GLOBE COOLING DOWN Students’ Investigation to collect and share ground surface temperature (ST) data from around the Maltese Islands and hence explore the Urban Heat Islands Effect (UHIE) across the islands. Gozo College Middle School Victoria, St Thomas More College Żejtun Primary School B and ESD at XGĦ collaborated to explore whether location and other factors affect the STs of similar surfaces in three different locations.

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