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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Making school-based GHG-emissions tangible by student-led carbon footprint assessment program
Contributor:
Wagner, Oliver
[Author];
Tholen, Lena
[Author];
Nawothnig, Lotte
[Author];
Albert-Seifried, Sebastian
[Author]
imprint:
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy: Publication Server, 2021-12-27
Language:
English
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3390/en14248558
Origination:
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Description:
Schools play an important role in achieving climate protection goals, because they lay the foundation of knowledge for a responsible next generation. Therefore, schools as institutions have a special role model function. Enabling schools to become aware of their own carbon footprint (CF) is an important prerequisite for being able to tap the substantial CO2 reduction potential. Aiming at the direct involvement of students in the assessment process, a new assessment tool was developed within the Schools4Future project that gives students the opportunity to determine their own school's CF. With this instrument the CO2 emissions caused by mobility, heating and electricity consumption as well as for food in the school canteen and for consumables (paper) can be recorded. It also takes into account existing renewable energy sources. Through the development of the tool, not only a monitoring instrument was established but also a concrete starting point from which students could take actions to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. This paper presents the tool and its methods used to calculate the CF and compares it with existing approaches. A comparative case study of four pilot schools in Germany demonstrates the practicability of the tool and reveals fundamental differences between the GHG emissions.