Our Aim; Every Irish School plants a tree in 2016/ 2017...
...Every Class in 2018/19, and mirrors that in the Global South.
Our vision; every child in Ireland plants a tree by 2020. They sponsor another one for one euro each in the Global South; we suggest Plant for the Planet or WeForest.
(... an adult can help with that. Where to find the euro? By vaccuming under the cushions in our class we found a euro each, on average, there is one idea!)
Time taken in total; planting the tree takes a few minutes, you may need help digging the hole. Paying the euro, a few minutes tops unless you get lost reading the world wide web!
How will we get the treees? We are working on that, while we are though you could plant a seed, like an apple pip. My brother did and now he gets to eat the apples. Or you could plant another sort of tree, natives are the best for biodiversity.
Easy Treesy. Go Ireland!
We are working on these Global goals specifically in our project; they were our Proclamation on Proclamation Day!
No really really what is our aim; (also the aim of the UN Childrens' Group, Plant for the Planet, every child on the globe plants a tree by the time they are 18. Lordy! Ok well that is a lot of trees. Let's get started....
You are joking right?)
No. This is real. Some children will need help of course. That is the case with everything.
Ooops. There is more. And during their lifetimes they plant 150 trees on average.
Now you really are joking.
No. Coillte already plants 15 m trees annually, that's 3 trees for each of us every year, 150 in 50 years, we just want to speed things up and involve the kids... ) So let's stop talking, get planting.
Here are the global goals we are addressing.
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species 15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
15.b Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation .
Pope Francis encyclical, "On Care for Our Common Home" the whole text can be read here. It begins, "Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet." I quote below from his letter, addressed to "all people to address our common home", he speaks of our obligations and I have highlighted his call to plant trees!
210. Environmental education has broadened its goals. Whereas in the beginning it was mainly centred on scientific information, consciousness-raising and the prevention of environmental risks, it tends now to include a critique of the “myths” of a modernity grounded in a utilitarian mindset (individualism, unlimited progress, competition, consumerism, the unregulated market). It seeks also to restore the various levels of ecological equilibrium, establishing harmony within ourselves, with others, with nature and other living creatures, and with God. Environmental education should facilitate making the leap towards the transcendent which gives ecological ethics its deepest meaning. It needs educators capable of developing an ethics of ecology, and helping people, through effective pedagogy, to grow in solidarity, responsibility and compassionate care.
211. Yet this education, aimed at creating an “ecological citizenship”, is at times limited to providing information, and fails to instil good habits. The existence of laws and regulations is insufficient in the long run to curb bad conduct, even when effective means of enforcement are present. If the laws are to bring about significant, long-lasting effects, the majority of the members of society must be adequately motivated to accept them, and personally transformed to respond. Only by cultivating sound virtues will people be able to make a selfless ecological commitment. A person who could afford to spend and consume more but regularly uses less heating and wears warmer clothes, shows the kind of convictions and attitudes which help to protect the environment. There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education can bring about real changes in lifestyle. Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings. Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity.
...Every Class in 2018/19, and mirrors that in the Global South.
Our vision; every child in Ireland plants a tree by 2020. They sponsor another one for one euro each in the Global South; we suggest Plant for the Planet or WeForest.
(... an adult can help with that. Where to find the euro? By vaccuming under the cushions in our class we found a euro each, on average, there is one idea!)
Time taken in total; planting the tree takes a few minutes, you may need help digging the hole. Paying the euro, a few minutes tops unless you get lost reading the world wide web!
How will we get the treees? We are working on that, while we are though you could plant a seed, like an apple pip. My brother did and now he gets to eat the apples. Or you could plant another sort of tree, natives are the best for biodiversity.
Easy Treesy. Go Ireland!
We are working on these Global goals specifically in our project; they were our Proclamation on Proclamation Day!
No really really what is our aim; (also the aim of the UN Childrens' Group, Plant for the Planet, every child on the globe plants a tree by the time they are 18. Lordy! Ok well that is a lot of trees. Let's get started....
You are joking right?)
No. This is real. Some children will need help of course. That is the case with everything.
Ooops. There is more. And during their lifetimes they plant 150 trees on average.
Now you really are joking.
No. Coillte already plants 15 m trees annually, that's 3 trees for each of us every year, 150 in 50 years, we just want to speed things up and involve the kids... ) So let's stop talking, get planting.
Here are the global goals we are addressing.
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.a Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
15.1 By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.2 By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.3 By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
15.5 Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species 15.9 By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
15.b Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation .
Pope Francis encyclical, "On Care for Our Common Home" the whole text can be read here. It begins, "Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet." I quote below from his letter, addressed to "all people to address our common home", he speaks of our obligations and I have highlighted his call to plant trees!
210. Environmental education has broadened its goals. Whereas in the beginning it was mainly centred on scientific information, consciousness-raising and the prevention of environmental risks, it tends now to include a critique of the “myths” of a modernity grounded in a utilitarian mindset (individualism, unlimited progress, competition, consumerism, the unregulated market). It seeks also to restore the various levels of ecological equilibrium, establishing harmony within ourselves, with others, with nature and other living creatures, and with God. Environmental education should facilitate making the leap towards the transcendent which gives ecological ethics its deepest meaning. It needs educators capable of developing an ethics of ecology, and helping people, through effective pedagogy, to grow in solidarity, responsibility and compassionate care.
211. Yet this education, aimed at creating an “ecological citizenship”, is at times limited to providing information, and fails to instil good habits. The existence of laws and regulations is insufficient in the long run to curb bad conduct, even when effective means of enforcement are present. If the laws are to bring about significant, long-lasting effects, the majority of the members of society must be adequately motivated to accept them, and personally transformed to respond. Only by cultivating sound virtues will people be able to make a selfless ecological commitment. A person who could afford to spend and consume more but regularly uses less heating and wears warmer clothes, shows the kind of convictions and attitudes which help to protect the environment. There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education can bring about real changes in lifestyle. Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings. Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity.