In June 2022, the EU-HPP Yunnan Low-carbon Schools Pilot Project issued notices to 29 schools that won the recognition of "Low-carbon Pioneer School" and 10 schools that won the recogntion of "Top Ten Schools in 2021".

Awarding notice

At the end of the same month, each low-carbon project team successively visited 28 schools, presented the "Low-carbon Pioneer Schools" and "Top Ten Schools in 2021" awards and held a semi-annual work exchange meeting.

Awarding highlights

At the exchange meeting, relevant school leaders and teachers summed up the achievements and experiences of last year's project and the school's actual work, further communicated with the project team members, and discussed the work plan arrangement for the second half of the year.

Among them, Vice President Mo of Longquan Road Primary School proposed: I hope the project team will give the demonstration courseware to the school, and the teachers of the school will promote the curriculum to the whole school, not just the demonstration class.

Kunming Lake Primary School, Fengyuan Primary School, Yihuiyuan Primary School and other schools all hope to integrate the demonstration lessons and activities of the project into the school-based curriculum of ecological civilization construction, and pass them on as excellent case textbooks. At the same time, President Hou Li of Yihuiyuan Primary School suggested that next semester, the project should organize the procurement of materials in a unified way, and carry out the tour display of environmental protection panels among several schools. This will not only save the funds for materials, but also help many schools to cooperate with each other.

Daily project activity site

In addition to the honorary titles of "Low-carbon Pioneer School" and "Top Ten Schools in 2021", teachers in charge of some schools have made outstanding work in the project activities and won the honor of "Excellent Organizational Teacher".

For other award-winning schools, the project team will visit the school and award the honor plaques to them later.

Shangyue Campus of Hongqi Primary School Education Group in Wuhua District, Kunming won the "Low Carbon Pioneer School" and

Personal "Excellent Organizational Teacher" Honor

At present, the idea of ecological civilization construction is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but there is still a long way to practice it. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China started the journey of peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, and the construction of ecological civilization entered a critical period with carbon reduction as the key strategic direction. It is hoped that all schools will take the EU-HPP's pilot project in Yunnan as an opportunity to form a unique and sustainable development management mechanism and promote the construction of low-carbon campus.

Project introduction:

Yunnan Low-carbon Schools Pilot Project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the People to People Foundation (Spanish member of HPP) in cooperation with FAIHPP (Switzerland) Yunnan Representative Office, Yunnan Academy for Science and Technical Information, Southwest Forestry University, Chinese Youth Climate Action Network, Green Kunming (Kunming Environmental Popular Science Association) and  Kunming Good Deed Public Welfare Community Development Service Center with a project cycle from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2023. The project begins by increasing partners’ awareness and advocacy on climate change mitigation and environmental protection, by raising climate change awareness among 600 schools, 70,000 students and teachers, determine the emission benchmark through basic calculation, and then implement emission reduction work in 50 Carbon Compliant Pioneer Schools. Use science, technology, innovation and other means to respond to “climate action” to accelerate environmental sustainability and promote the transition from green campuses to low-carbon and carbon-neutral campuses.

This project is funded by the European Union.

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