What is climate?
Climate is the average weather in a place over many years.
What is climate change?
Climate change means there is change in the average weather.
Climate change is happening everywhere in the world.
Activities to protect the environment and stop climate change
must be inclusive and accessible to everyone.
People with disabilities need to have information about our environment and climate change.
This information must be in plain (easy to read) language and Sign Language.
We want to develop training materials on green issues.
Trainers working with young deaf people and young people with disabilities can use the materials.
We want to develop a test to find out your carbon footprint.
Carbon dioxide is a gas.
Devices that use energy produce carbon dioxide.
Too much carbon dioxide in the air makes the climate warmer.
My carbon footprint means:
How much carbon I produce throughout my life.
For example:
When I drive a car.
We want to develop accessible green campaigns and campaign guidelines together with young people.
What is a campaign?
Many young people are angry about climate change.
They want to become active.
Becoming active means to do something to try and make a change in our society.
Young active people think that:
Politicians are not doing enough to protect the environment.
They want this to change.
They want to protest about this.
This is a campaign.