Climate Change and Southern Voices
Climate Change and Southern Voices
Tools for holistic and empowering climate education
Climate change, species extinction and global inequality - clarifying complex global phenomena and their interconnections in schools can be challenging. Future threats cause many kinds of reactions and feelings that can be good to address by turning them into action. The Foundation for Environmental Education Finland (FEE Suomi) and the Siemenpuu Foundation offer a multidisciplinary learning module for holistic climate education that gives youth a systemic overview of the challenges we face.
The Climate Change and Southern Voices learning module is targeted to upper comprehensive schools and upper secondary institutions. During the module, students get familiarised with the causes, effects and solutions of climate change. They are guided to reflect on climate justice and the interconnections of phenomena related to climate change and sustainable development more broadly. To bring the reflections into action, the students are encouraged to actively seek and find solutions by realizing a Young Reporters for the Environment project about a climate related topic. Teachers and educators can adopt the module with the help of lesson plans and a variety of background materials.
We offer complete teaching materials that aim to expand the worldview of young people and support the implementation of project-based solution oriented education.
The aim of the Climate Change and Southern Voices project is to expand the worldview of youth as well as to increase solidarity and action toward global sustainable development. The intention is to strengthen the young people's experience that climate change affects people – and we need action to solve it – all over the world.
The perspectives of Southern actors will be introduced through the video materials produced by the project partners of the Siemenpuu Foundation. Hearing the stories being told by the actors themselves helps to understand how all of us all over the world work together towards the same goals.
The administrators of the project
Foundation for Environmental Education FEE Suomi
Foundation for Environmental Education FEE Suomi is a non-governmental organisation specialising in advancement, development and support of environmental education. We work towards increasing the emphasis and knowledge of environmental education in Finland, and towards making sure that an ever-growing group of educators and teachers will have the will and prerequisites to convey sustainable development information, knowhow and attitudes.
Climate Change and Southern Voices project utilises the methodology of the Young Reporters for the Environment programme of the international umbrella network of FEE Suomi, Foundation for Environmental Education.
Siemenpuu Foundation
The Siemenpuu Foundation provides funding for environmental and democracy initiatives of the civil society actors in developing countries and works as a development communication actor in Finland. The projects funded by the Siemenpuu Foundation reduce poverty and inequality as well as restrict the loss of biological diversity and climate emissions.
The videos of the Climate Change and Southern Voices project, on themes of climate change and sustainable development are produced by the Southern project partners of the Siemenpuu Foundation. The videos have been filmed in Argentina, Brazil, Mozambique, Mali, Nepal and India.