The history-geography department team decided this year to turn the geography program upside down: as part of the COP 26 week, Year 8 students put into perspective the actions carried out, Year 8 pupils will start by studying the last subject: "Preventing risks and adapting to global change".
The goal? Understand the effects of global change and the ways in which societies seek to adapt to it.
Students will be invited to focus on the impact of global warming on the Vanuatu archipelago. These South Pacific islands are victims of rising seas and coastal erosion caused by climate change. The water level there has increased by 11 cm since 1993, twice the world average.
In 2006, according to an international ranking, Vanuatu was the happiest place on earth. In 2016, a United Nations agency determined that Vanuatu was the country most at risk from natural disasters - prompting the NGO Greenpeace to say "Vanuatu had become the most dangerous country in the world".
CFBL | French Bilingual College of London Year 8 students will analyse in detail the mechanisms and impacts of an extreme climatic phenomenon: Cyclone Pam which devastated several islands of Vanuatu in 2015. They will also discover how this territory seeks to adapt to natural risks, and what actions are being undertaken in an attempt to counter the effects of climate change.
