What you will explore:
- What is climate and environmental change?
- What climate and environmental rights do children and young people have?
- How does the climate affect our way of living and how does our way of living affect the climate?
- What is extreme weather?
- How does the world work with climate and environment issues?
- What would you say to politicians who work with climate and environment issues?


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Welcome to The Magic Classroom on climate and the environment

Welcome

Intro movie

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about the climate and environment?

FILM: What is climate and environmental change?

GAME: Causes of climate change

FILM: How does the world work with climate and environment issues?

GAME: Solutions to the causes of climate change

QUIZ: What have you learned about climate and environmental change?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about children’s climate and environmental rights?

FILM: What rights do children and young people have when it comes to climate and environmental issues?

QUOTES: How do children  and young people notice climate and environmental changes?

FILM: Children’s right to express themselves

GAME: How can children have an influence?

QUIZ: What have you learned about children’s  climate and environmental rights?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about climate and way of life?

TITLE: FILM: Climate and environmental changes in Norway

FILM: Climate and environmental changes in Somalia

MAP: Climate changes in the world

QUIZ: What have you learned about climate and  way of life?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about extreme weather?

FILM: Extreme weather in Guatemala

GAME: Extreme weather has varying impacts

FILM: Extreme weather in Nepal

QUIZ: What have you learned about extreme weather?

FACT OR FICTION: What do you know about how the  world works on the climate and environment?

FILM: Meet the Children’s Climate Panel

PHOTOS: Join the UN Climate Summit

QUOTES: What do we need to do in the future?

QUIZ: What have you learned about how the world works for the climate and environment?

Have Your Say

Enig/uenig klima- og miljøendringer

Bakgrunn klima- og miljøendringer

Climate is the average weather measured over an extended period of time. Climate covers temperature and the amount of wind, snow and rain we experience.

Climate refers to the weather we expect to experience based on the current month or season. Weather is something we experience every single day.

The climate on Earth has always been changing. Climate change is when the average temperature changes over time. This means that the weather becomes different to normal. However, the rapid temperature rise we are currently experiencing cannot be explained through natural changes. Changes that normally occur over a period of hundreds of thousands of years now occur in the space of decades as people emit more and more natural gases such as CO2.

Never before has the world experienced climate change.

Environment refers to a place or area. The environment provides, among other things, an indication of the climate, the wildlife, nature and what it is like to live in the area. The climate and environment are closely linked and impact upon one another. 

The climate and environment are not linked in any way.

Some changes to the environment occur slowly. Rocks, for example, will change shape when waves crash against them for a prolonged period of time. These are natural changes created by nature. As these changes occur slowly, the environment is able to adapt to the changes.   Other changes may happen suddenly and can change the environment in an area in a short period of time. One example of this is forest fires.    People can also change the environment by e.g. felling forests or developing an area.

Changes to the environment naturally occur in an area over time.

According to the UN Climate Panel, the main cause of climate change is increased emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases. Increased emissions cause temperatures on the planet to rise and it becomes warmer.

Increased population growth is the main cause of climate and environmental changes.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals constitute the global work plan. The SDGs encompass 17 goals that state what the world needs to do in order to stop climate and environmental change, as well as ensuring that everyone has adequate food, education and other things that are important when it comes to leading a good life. The Paris Agreement, the UN Nature Treaty and the UN Ocean Treaty are other plans the world has put in place to work with climate and environment issues.

The world has plans in place for how we can stop climate and environmental changes.