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Energy and the Millennium Development Goals

Energy and the Millennium Development Goals. How important is energy ? What do you use energy for?. On separate pieces of paper or post it notes write down as many things as you can that you use energy for in your life.

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Energy and the Millennium Development Goals

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  1. Energy and the Millennium Development Goals

  2. How important is energy ?What do you use energy for? On separate pieces of paper or post it notes write down as many things as you can that you use energy for in your life. In your group see if you can group them together into categories e.g. heating, communication Feedback to the class

  3. Imagine a life without energy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usISdE-WSWU

  4. Energy is important for everyone Thinking about the film, in your group discuss anything else you have found out that energy is important for. Write any new ideas on pieces of paper and add to your categories. You may want to add new categories.

  5. Information from images Look at each of the 8 pictures. All these show something happening that needs energy. If there is something new your group didn’t think of before write it on a piece of paper and again add to your categories.

  6. The Millennium Development goals In 2000 a large number of countries around the world who form the United Nations agreed on 8 goals they would try to reach by 2015 that would dramatically improve the lives of poor people around the world. They called them the Millennium Development Goals orMDGs

  7. The 8 Millennium Development Goals are… Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases Ensure environmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development

  8. Watch this short video about the MDGs http://binged.it/1d1oXUj

  9. Energy is important if we are to reach the MDGs In your groups cut out all the MDG symbols and their meaning and match them e.g. Improved maternal health With • Stick onto your A3 sheet. • For each MDG write down at least two things energy is needed for using everything you have identified so far to help you e.g. • - Light… to deliver babies safely at night • - Hot water… to sterilise equipment needed

  10. A reminder of the problem Energy is vital for poor people to escape povertyand important if we want to achieve the MDGs. The problem is right now a third of the world’s population has no access to modern energy services. 33% 33.3333 1/3

  11. What happens after 2015? The United Nations are working with organisations like Practical Action to put together a new set of goals for 2025…these will be called the Sustainable Development goalsor SDGs. ? If you could write a goal forenergywhat would it be? Discuss in your group. Think about - how many people should have energy? - do you think energy needs to be renewable?

  12. Write your own SDG Write your own goal and design a logo for it like the logos for the MDGs Send your goal and logo to Kandeh Yumkellaat the UN who is working on the new goals, k.yumkella@se4all.org. Include a short note saying why you feel helping people get energy is so important in ending poverty. Please also send it to us, we will put it on our website schools@practicalaction.org.uk To find out why Kandeh Yumkella is so passionate about giving everyone energy go to http://bit.ly/1aqLnID Kandeh Yumkella

  13. What else can you do? Try the moja island activity to find out about renewable energy in a fun way practicalaction.org/moja-island 1 Help people in poverty by your own actions…reduce your carbon footprint to help reduce climate change and therefore its impact on the poor, and think about a career where you can make a difference. practicalaction.org/careers Show your support for organisations who help people get access to energy by fund-raising http://practicalaction.org/school-and-youth-groups

  14. What else can you do? Look at how simple, affordable and sustainable technologies are being used to help reduce poverty such as the ‘litre of light’, clean cookstoves and low voltage fridges. Show your support for organisations like Practical Action who help people get access to energy by fund-raising http://practicalaction.org/school-and-youth-groups http://bbc.in/1gqADOg

  15. Want to find out even more?practicalaction.org/energy

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