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Experts and web conferences
Web conferences
Fiona and Davina answered the following questions from students in web conference 1:
- What action do we have to take to help our rivers' ecosystems?
- How does pollution affect the weather patterns?
- How can we encourage people to get connected with nature?
- How did climate change not get noticed as a major problem by governments until recently?
- Why and how is agriculture such a big polluter?
- Why do we as children need to make change if we've done nothing wrong?
- How has renewable energy changed over time?
- How does climate affect the environment?
- Is landscape a factor in climates of different areas?
Fiona and Justin answered the following questions from students in web conference 2:
- When you use water to generate power and you take it through the Coleridge penstocks and Power Station doesn’t that affect the water quality?
- How can we spread awareness to the people who don’t know or believe that climate change is real?
- Is there any way to not only stop climate change but to reverse it?
- With the rising sea levels and the risk of erosion, where would they have to prioritize the coastal protection levels?
- Why do people worry about 1℃ or 2℃ in temperature change when that's really not that much and we deal with that much change every day?
- In New Zealand what is the largest cause of global warming or climate change?
- What do you say to people who agree there is global warming and climate change but say people have not caused it?
- When will climate change affect people in a bad way?