Delta Environmental Centre hosted the launch of trusted educator resource EnviroTeach with an exhibition and interactive panel on 12 March.
Over the years, EnviroTeach has responded to environmental education developments and education policy developments both in our immediate community and nationally. Topics explored in previous editions include ecotourism, financial literacy and sustainable living, energy use and management and natural resources.
The newly launched edition, titled Teaching Climate Change: the water, food and energy nexus, was co-funded by the British High Commission’s Prosperity Fund and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany’s foreign office in South Africa.
“South Africa will be seriously affected by climate change, probably one of the most affected countries worldwide,” said Friedrich Schröder, head of the press department of the German embassy in Pretoria.
“Therefore it is important to familiarise people, educators in particular, with this topic, identify opportunities to deal with its impacts and especially present ways how to mitigate and combat climate change.”
“Climate Change can exacerbate resource stress in many ways,” agreed British High Commissioner Judith Macgregor, “in particular, it threatens to reduce the availability of productive land, increase water scarcity, and undermine food security by decreasing crop yields and increasing drought and extreme weather.
The role of educators in shaping the thinking of learners is crucial to developing an engaged dialogue on these issues and preparing a generation that will be hugely affected by the consequences of Climate Change but will also be in a position to shape the policies needed to mitigate them.”
55 000 copies of this edition (a 36-page magazine and a folded, inserted poster) were printed and have been distributed nationwide
Details: Delta Environtmental Centre- 011 888 4831 Download recent editions of EnviroTeach for free at www.enviroteach.co.za
