Nimet KAYA-Emine ÇEVİK

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Our dilemma is that we live in a finite world, but behave as if it were inexhaustible.

Recent studies show the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years, and the top four in the past four years. Over the past century, the average temperature of the Earth has risen by 1.8°F. Over the next one hundred years, scientists are projecting another 0.5 to 8.6°F rise in the temperature.

The cause of this temperature change is human activities that have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (such as methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases) into the atmosphere. The majority of greenhouse gases come from burning fossil fuels to produce energy.Results of this global warming include rising ocean temperatures, a more acidic ocean, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels.

Climate change will also impact humans and especially the world’s 2.6 billion poorest people. According to the United Nations Development Program, “Receding forests, changing rainfall patterns and rising sea levels will exacerbate existing economic, political and humanitarian stresses and affect human development in all parts of the world.”

Recent studies show that Earth has lost half its wildlife in just 40 years. The IUCN predicted that 20-30% of plant and animal species are likely to be at an increased risk of extinction due to climate change.

Everyone can take simple actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mitigate our personal contribution to climate change, and build greater community resiliency.

The five global risks of the coming years that are highest in terms of their likelihood are all environmental:

• Extreme weather events with great damage to property, infrastructure and human life.
• Governments and businesses fail to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
• Man-made environmental damages and disasters.
• Great loss of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems with irreversible consequences for the environment, which leads to a severe depletion of resources for humanity and industry.
• Major natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and geomagnetic storms.

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Project goals

-Raising awareness by drawing attention to climate change and global warming.

-Understanding that nature and the environment are important for our life, developing awareness.

-To create an attitude regarding the order and cleaning of the nature,

-To ensure the protection of living creatures in nature,

-Handling of subjects with interdisciplinary transition method

-To improve 21st century skills,