Ulsan Office of Education Launches 'Classroom Temperature 1.5-Degree Reduction Participation Challenge'

622 More Classes Participated Compared to Last Year

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education is operating the ‘Classroom Temperature 1.5 Degrees Lower Challenge Practice Class’ to help students realize the seriousness of climate change and practice climate actions in their daily lives.

The ‘Classroom Temperature 1.5 Degrees Lower Challenge’ is one of Ulsan Office of Education’s ecological environment policies reflecting the global joint effort to prevent the Earth's average temperature from rising more than 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels.

The challenge aims for each class to select carbon-neutral practice tasks, carry them out for more than 100 days, and continue these habitual actions in everyday life.

This year, a total of 722 classes are participating, including 548 elementary school classes, 65 middle school classes, and 109 high school classes, an increase of 622 classes compared to last year.

Rather than setting a uniform participation period, the duration is autonomously determined within approximately 100 to 200 days, reflecting the opinions of the class community.

Students are continuously practicing self-selected tasks as well as various practice menus proposed in policy discussions of the educational community, such as ‘Plant Caretaker’ who grows companion plants, ‘You Have a Tumbler!’ to reduce disposable products, and ‘Go to Your Seat’ for recycling.

Teacher Ye Byeong-gwon of Gaewoon Elementary School said, “We are running a 150-day challenge where students make personal mugs and brush their teeth daily,” adding, “I believe energy saving is an action that everyone living on Earth must habitually do.”

Superintendent Cheon Chang-su said, “In responding to the climate crisis, practice is as important as knowledge,” and added, “We expect that active climate action at the class level will spread to schools, homes, and communities, becoming a great force to save the Earth.”

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