Part 1: Global
Renewable Energy Case Studies
U3: Energy Transformations
Student Learning Activity
RenewableEnergyVFTTeacherPacket_NL
Part 2: Local
However, fossil fuels still satisfy the majority of B.C.’s overall energy needs;
B.C. uses four times as much energy from fossil fuels as from clean electricity.
The province’s climate and energy strategy, CleanBC, aims to shift B.C. from an economy powered by oil and gas to one increasingly powered by clean energy.
Government projections suggest that clean energy consumption will increase by about 40 per cent by 2030 under this plan, while fossil fuel use will decrease by about 15 per cent. However, CleanBC is projected to get B.C. only 75 per cent of the way to its 2030 climate target.
To achieve our full commitments, B.C. will need to increase the absolute clean energy mix while further decreasing the use of fossil fuels — and do so without locking the province into a particular energy or policy pathway that could prevent B.C. from meeting 2040 and 2050 targets.
Renewable Energy Case Studies – BC
Site C Dam – Narwhal
CleanEnergy BC
Part 3:
Renewable Energy Project – BC
Part 4:
Climate Justice
Science in Action_Podcast
What is this episode about:
Particle physics v climate change
Should CERN be spending $17 billion on a new atom smasher whilst we face, climate change, the most pressing crisis of our time? Materials-turned environmental scientist Mark Miodownik and CERN physicist Kate Shaw debate the issue.
One of the issues Mark argues more people should be tackling are the climate change driven forest fires which recently ravaged Chile and killed more than 100 people. Chilean climate scientist Raul Cordero discusses the factors which led to the devastating fires.
And Nasa physicist and oceanographer Susanne Craig explains their freshly launched satellite PACE, which hopes to get a better picture of our changing oceans and use this information to tackle climate change. A quest Nasa manages to achieve whilst also trying to answer the big questions about our universe.
Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Ella Hubber
Production co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
(Photo: Firefighters work at the Botanical Garden after a forest fire in Viña del Mar, Chile, 4 February, 2024. Credit: Javier Torres/AFP)
Learning Activities:
Science in School
