Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who has inspired an international movement to fight climate change, has been nominated as a candidate to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

She was nominated by three Norwegian MPs.

If she were to win, she would be the youngest recipient since Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, who was 17 when she received the prize.

"We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change, it will be the cause of wars, conflict and refugees," Norwegian Socialist MP Freddy Andre Ovstegard told AFP news agency.

"Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major contribution to peace," he added.

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NEWS!! - Les escoles de Barcelona es coordinen pel moviment Fridays4Future

The news we were talking about in Environmental Club this week was that Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!! and that there is possibly the biggest ever climate change demonstration this Friday 15th March to ask governments to act now stop climate breakdown around the world.

Here is a post about what's happening in Barcelona from Escoles Sostenibles!

And today we made our own posters (out of recycled card of course!) with the messages that we would like to share from our school in support of this global action!

#climatestrike

Environmental News : Endangered Species

By now we are all familiar with America’s president, Donald Trump. We all know that he does not believe in climate change and does very little or nothing to improve this problem. But now he is also  taking out protections from endangered species in America. So here are two species that are endangered due to climate change and human garbage, which we should try to protect. 

The first is the Rusty Patched Bumblebee

This bumblebee has reduced in population 90% thanks to pesticides we put on the plants and habitat loss from destroying natural areas to make more houses or roads. This bumblebee, as any other, is crucial for the reproduction of plants since they are in charge of pollinating the plants. The American administration stopped a plan to protect this crucial animal but later on letting it go on after a legal fight concerning the administration and the people who wanted to do the plan.

Secondly we have the Leatherback Turtle 

A decade ago these turtles were not in danger, actually there had been a slight increase of their population over the Atlantic but know there are “huge declines” Dr Justin Perrault says which is the director of research in the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. The turtles having to go to Florida to lay their eggs, there reduction in population is due to sea level rises that are happening there which drown the turtle’s nests on the beach. Furthermore they are also being strangled, chocked or caught in discarded fishing nets and the pollution and climate changes are not helping with this problem. The administration is now considering to downgrade these turtles protective status from endangered to threatening.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/06/five-species-under-threat-in-the-age-of-trump

Thanks to Gabriela for preparing this excellent post!

Eco meeting 28th Feb

This week we had an Eco Meeting, completely organised and run by 1ºESO students. (Carlota, Carlota, India and Cristina). They talked about the problems around the world and they created a thing that is called Eco Representatives, there will be 1 or more per class. The Eco reps will take on more projects around the school, such as recycling, and looking after the gardens.