Author: A project of Peace Child International

Publisher: Evans Brothers Limited 2010

Pages: 96

Description:

The publication of this title, in association with Peace Child International (PCI), coincides with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which aims for a new global agreement on measures to prevent climate change. PCI is a network of youth-led organisations in consultative status with the United Nations. It unites groups in over 180 countries, and its mission is to empower young people to address the most pressing global challenges they are going to have to address in their lifetimes, such as human rights and making poverty history. PCI's contribution to the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit is a vision of our world operating comfortably without fossil fuels - and a road map of how to get there. This book will address key issues of the report in a student-friendly way, with clear links to science, geography and citizenship. The views and ideas of high-profile individuals and global opinion-formers with a special interest in sustainability are featured, providing ideal springboards for further debate and discussion. It is designed to develop critical thinking skills and encourage students to work out their own responses to world development issues in a positive and constructive way.