Extreme weather is happening in every corner of the world. De Guzman, head of the climate data department of the Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration of the Philippines, pointed out that the Philippines' sea level rises at a rate of three times the global average, and many coastal villages are at risk of being flooded by seawater. The ongoing drought in Europe has also caused unprecedented cessation of many rivers. Frequent extreme weather has attracted people's attention and vigilance.
Recently, China Youth Daily and China Youth School Media launched a questionnaire survey on climate change and environmental protection issues, and collected 3,745 valid questionnaires filled out by students from 164 universities. The survey results showed that 80.48% of the surveyed college students believed that "climate change is a realistic and urgent challenge."
"No one can keep it alone", interviewed college students generally pay attention to global climate change
"The first exposure to climate problems can be traced back to a disaster movie called "The Day After"." Xin Zi, who is from Sichuan Agricultural University, recalled. In the movie, the global warming of causes the frequent occurrence of natural disasters , and then the whole world enters a new ice age. After a baptism of "brick" hail, vehicles were already full of holes, the earth became bumpy, and even skyscrapers were shaking, and the tiny humans were struggling in blood and ice. Although this is just a picture in the movie, it leaves an indelible trace in his heart, "No one can guarantee that art will not reflect into reality."
"Looking at the earth from the satellite signal, Australia is full of red, it's really terrible!" When talking about the bushfires that broke out in Australia in 2019, Huang Yanhao, who studied at Kingsoft College, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, is still in fear. The fire left a devastated place: dry grass, animals' corpses and ashes. This summer, Huang Yanhao, who lives in , South , experienced the destructive power of extreme weather firsthand. There are high temperature warnings in many places, and the temperature in some areas has exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. However, the umbrella yellow bottom of the lake should have been exposed during the flood season. "If Australian wildfires are still far from us, then this summer's abnormality has reminded us that climate change is a global problem, and the impact it brings will affect everyone, and no one can be safe." The
survey found that more than 90% of college students surveyed expressed concern or attention to the current climate problem, of which 20.37% of respondents were very concerned, 41.66% of respondents were more concerned, and 30.79% of respondents were generally concerned. In terms of channels of attention, 86.68% of respondents learned through news reports, 50.95% of respondents obtained new information by chatting with friends and family, 31.88% of respondents would take the initiative to query relevant information and information to understand the new trends of climate change, and 14.58% of respondents conducted in-depth research on this issue by learning relevant professional knowledge.
The recent sharp drop in temperature has caused Li Yuqing, who is studying related majors, to have the idea of clarifying the reasons behind it. "My research topic is also related to this. There is a saying that as global warming problems intensify, most areas will warm and Europe will get colder. On the seasonal trend, summers will get hotter and winters will get colder."
survey found that 80.48% of college students surveyed believe that "climate change is a realistic and urgent challenge."
Director of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development of Tsinghua University, Secretary-General of the World University Climate Change Alliance, and Member of the National Climate Change Expert Committee Li ZhengIntroduction, in recent years, extreme weather events such as high temperatures, droughts, heavy rainstorms, and floods have occurred frequently, and the main reason behind it is climate change. Human society emits excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which is the core cause of climate change, and carbon dioxide is the main component of artificial greenhouse gas emissions. carbon neutralization is to significantly reduce the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by humans, so that the remaining emissions are equal to the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed naturally, thereby making the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stable and no longer increasing. "Obviously, carbon neutrality is a fundamental solution to the physical causes of climate change."Li Zheng said.
"Environmental protection science popularization can be more affordable to the people." The interviewed college students are looking forward to environmental protection measures and popular science
"I look forward to more easy-to-understand popular science and use theory to guide practice. "Xin Zi feels that it is important to encourage the public to correctly understand climate issues. "For example, global warming is characterized by an increase in extreme weather, rather than a literal increase in temperature and warming in winter. When the super cold wave broke out in the United States last year, some people's comments exposed people's misunderstanding of this concept. "
survey found that 79.73% of respondents look forward to vigorously developing renewable energy and to innovate energy conservation and emission reduction through technology; 79.52% of respondents look forward to charity organizations, professional institutions and media organizing environmental science popularization activities; 72.26% of respondents look forward to organizing environmental protection activities from all walks of life; 68.38% of respondents look forward to increasing the management and governance of pollution sources; 64.78% of respondents look forward to a gradual, reasonable and effective environmental management system.
When Zi was conducting a survey on natural geography , he asked many respondents what day it was. Compared with the well-known "3·15" International Consumer Rights Day , most of the respondents showed confusion when they heard "3·23", and did not know that this was "World Meteorological Day". "Although climate issues are now attracting much attention, there is still room for improvement in popular science effects, and the way of popular science should be more people-friendly, so that everyone realizes that environmental protection actions can be done casually, alleviating the climate crisis is not just a theory. "
" As a native of Hubei, I didn't know that Hubei was the first low-carbon pilot in the country. "When collecting information on carbon emissions in Hubei Province, Cheng Xinyue, who majored in humanities, geography and urban and rural planning at the Beijing Second Foreign Languages College, sighed. During his internship in the media, Zhou Xiaotong once did a topic on the direction of environmental protection and green economy. "How to put some abstract concepts in environmental protection work into practice, there is still a lot of room for discussion. "Zhou Xiaotong looks forward to seeing a more detailed path to achieve the carbon neutrality goal and the implementation of ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance - Reporter's Note) concept.
Li Zheng introduced that the Chinese government attaches great importance to responding to climate change, and regards climate change as an important means to promote ecological civilization construction and achieve high-quality development of . It has implemented a series of strategies, measures and actions to respond to climate change, and actively participate in global climate governance. In the future, it should further clarify the timetable, roadmap, and construction drawings for carbon neutrality of carbon peak, formulate specific plans and plans, refine goals and tasks, key measures and guarantee conditions, and use key breakthroughs to drive overall promotion and promote significant improvement of ecological environment quality. "Enterprises have huge development space and development potential in low-carbon transformation. When an enterprise achieves carbon neutrality, it must first understand the emission list of its respective greenhouse gases, and then follow the preparation stage, implementation stage, evaluation stage and life stage, integrate carbon neutrality into the entire process of corporate strategy and management, find a development path and technical route that suits it, and first strive to clean the snow in front of the door. "
Last year, news such as heavy rain in Zhengzhou made Zhou Xiaotong realize that all sectors of society still need to be prepared to deal with climate change. "For example, the newly built river channels and the public's popular science education to deal with extreme weather, such as how to measure the construction standards of sponge city ? What is the water seepage rate? What rights and obligations do citizens have in the construction of sponge cities? "
" Start with yourself and start with small things", the interviewed college students are willing to contribute to environmental protection
" Climate change is damaging the basic conditions required for the survival and development of young people, and has become one of the biggest threats faced by this generation. In the time dimension, the process of achieving carbon neutrality is a period of vigorous growth for this generation of young people. Achieving the dual-carbon goal requires intergenerational inheritance. The younger generation has independent thinking, can think and discover beyond the system formed by their predecessors, and is easy to accept a new lifestyle. I believe that young people can shoulder this mission as soon as possible. "Li Zheng said.
"Start from yourself and start from small things" is an old saying, but Zhou Xiaotong believes that this is not out of date in the face of climate change.During the internship, her colleagues in the Netherlands , Dutch have achieved environmental protection to the extreme: bring their own canvas bags to the supermarket; reduce the number of orders for takeout and express delivery, and ask merchants to minimize plastic packaging; reduce the number of times they wash clothes to save water. "With the warming climate, the rare drought problem in history has repeatedly appeared in the Netherlands. In August this year, the Dutch government also announced that the country was in a state of 'water scarcity'." Under the influence of this Dutch colleague, more and more people brought their own tableware in the office, and Zhou Xiaotong also began to ride a bicycle to and from get off work.
Faced with the "real and urgent challenge" of climate change and environmental protection, many interviewed college students responded actively in the best of their ability. The survey shows that 61.58% of the respondents have participated in environmental protection charity activities or environmental protection work. Specifically, 73.76% of the respondents have participated in cleaning and cleaning public welfare activities, 70.03% of the respondents have participated in live publicity of environmental protection concepts, and 20.56% of the respondents have used their professional expertise to carry out environmental protection work.
"I think among young people, environmental protection concepts and environmental awareness have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Especially now, those born in the 2000s and even the 2000s have strong awareness of energy conservation, emission reduction and green environmental protection." Shen Yiqi has served as a volunteer in knowledge popularization activities and community volunteer activities, introducing content such as garbage classification, degradation and recycling. He found that many young people are willing to contact and deeply understand the knowledge of climate and environmental protection. "My friends and I will also participate in online charity projects, such as donating money to ecological protection zones or donating online charity forests." Li Yuqing felt that such activities were low in cost, easy to achieve, and had a strong sense of participation.
Huang Yanhao, who studies economics and management major, believes that countries around the world should support the development of green industries and introduce corresponding policies to promote the green transformation of some enterprises. Enterprises should also increase investment in green technology, integrate ESG concepts into corporate governance, develop green technology, accelerate green transformation, and become sustainable green enterprises.
survey showed that 77.99% of respondents said they would organize or participate in environmental protection activities in the future, hoping to contribute to environmental protection. In terms of personal career planning , 28.59% of the college students surveyed said that they will invest in environmental protection-related industries or carry out work in related fields in the future, and 58.03% of the college students surveyed said that they may engage in related work in the future or use it as a public welfare undertaking in the future.
Xin Zi feels that although the landscape garden major he studied cannot directly solve the climate problem, they will also pay attention to environmental factors during the garden design and planning process. For example, when designing projects, adapt to local conditions, use more clean energy, and optimize the living environment by establishing a resource circulation system. "Climate change is not only needed to consider by students in climate-related majors. This is a problem faced by all mankind. As college students, if they implement environmental protection concepts in their own fields, and each person will work hard for environmental protection, we can build a better home together."
Zhou Xiaotong is very interested in the statement that "the public uses behavior to guide the market." "In this way, ordinary people have a stronger sense of initiative and responsibility when participating in climate change." In the future, Zhou Xiaotong will continue to pay attention to the dynamics of climate change and environmental protection, and hope to have the opportunity to join non-governmental organization to work for a more livable climate and environment prospect.
Li Zheng hopes that students in related majors or young people in other professional fields can devote themselves more to the cause of responding to climate change. "Under the background of global climate change, students must first build a systematic thinking ability, a global perspective and mentality. When choosing scientific research topics, they should look at their position in the development process of industries, countries and even the world, and target the country's major needs in the fields of energy and climate change. Students in relevant majors can devote themselves to the development and path selection of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. For example, on the energy supply side, how to transform traditional energy systems into new energy systems with clean energy as the main body through innovation, and fundamentally leverage carbon reduction .On the energy demand side, how to accelerate digitalization and electrification based on information technology such as "cloud, large, material, mobile, intelligence, and chain", such as the industrial sector explores hydrogen-energy steelmaking, zero-carbon heating in the construction sector, and the transportation sector adopts more electric vehicles, etc., so as to provide practical and feasible paths and solutions to achieve the dual-carbon goal. "
" Students in other majors can also start with me and start with small things, develop good habits such as turning off electrical appliances casually, green travel, practice low-carbon lifestyle , and make the best contribution to achieving carbon neutrality. At the same time, we can give full play to our knowledge advantages, advocate and organize educational and publicity activities related to climate change, and call for helping to popularize and improve social awareness, so as to drive more people to work together to achieve the dual-carbon goal. "Li Zheng said.
(At the request of the interviewees, all college students in the article are pseudonyms except Huang Yanhao)
Intern reporter of China Youth Daily·China Youth Network Wang Junli Intern Fan Zijing Li Chongming
Source: China Youth Daily
"Li Zheng said."Environmental protection science popularization can be more affordable to the people." The interviewed college students are looking forward to environmental protection measures and popular science
"I look forward to more easy-to-understand popular science and use theory to guide practice. "Xin Zi feels that it is important to encourage the public to correctly understand climate issues. "For example, global warming is characterized by an increase in extreme weather, rather than a literal increase in temperature and warming in winter. When the super cold wave broke out in the United States last year, some people's comments exposed people's misunderstanding of this concept. "
survey found that 79.73% of respondents look forward to vigorously developing renewable energy and to innovate energy conservation and emission reduction through technology; 79.52% of respondents look forward to charity organizations, professional institutions and media organizing environmental science popularization activities; 72.26% of respondents look forward to organizing environmental protection activities from all walks of life; 68.38% of respondents look forward to increasing the management and governance of pollution sources; 64.78% of respondents look forward to a gradual, reasonable and effective environmental management system.
When Zi was conducting a survey on natural geography , he asked many respondents what day it was. Compared with the well-known "3·15" International Consumer Rights Day , most of the respondents showed confusion when they heard "3·23", and did not know that this was "World Meteorological Day". "Although climate issues are now attracting much attention, there is still room for improvement in popular science effects, and the way of popular science should be more people-friendly, so that everyone realizes that environmental protection actions can be done casually, alleviating the climate crisis is not just a theory. "
" As a native of Hubei, I didn't know that Hubei was the first low-carbon pilot in the country. "When collecting information on carbon emissions in Hubei Province, Cheng Xinyue, who majored in humanities, geography and urban and rural planning at the Beijing Second Foreign Languages College, sighed. During his internship in the media, Zhou Xiaotong once did a topic on the direction of environmental protection and green economy. "How to put some abstract concepts in environmental protection work into practice, there is still a lot of room for discussion. "Zhou Xiaotong looks forward to seeing a more detailed path to achieve the carbon neutrality goal and the implementation of ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance - Reporter's Note) concept.
Li Zheng introduced that the Chinese government attaches great importance to responding to climate change, and regards climate change as an important means to promote ecological civilization construction and achieve high-quality development of . It has implemented a series of strategies, measures and actions to respond to climate change, and actively participate in global climate governance. In the future, it should further clarify the timetable, roadmap, and construction drawings for carbon neutrality of carbon peak, formulate specific plans and plans, refine goals and tasks, key measures and guarantee conditions, and use key breakthroughs to drive overall promotion and promote significant improvement of ecological environment quality. "Enterprises have huge development space and development potential in low-carbon transformation. When an enterprise achieves carbon neutrality, it must first understand the emission list of its respective greenhouse gases, and then follow the preparation stage, implementation stage, evaluation stage and life stage, integrate carbon neutrality into the entire process of corporate strategy and management, find a development path and technical route that suits it, and first strive to clean the snow in front of the door. "
Last year, news such as heavy rain in Zhengzhou made Zhou Xiaotong realize that all sectors of society still need to be prepared to deal with climate change. "For example, the newly built river channels and the public's popular science education to deal with extreme weather, such as how to measure the construction standards of sponge city ? What is the water seepage rate? What rights and obligations do citizens have in the construction of sponge cities? "
" Start with yourself and start with small things", the interviewed college students are willing to contribute to environmental protection
" Climate change is damaging the basic conditions required for the survival and development of young people, and has become one of the biggest threats faced by this generation. In the time dimension, the process of achieving carbon neutrality is a period of vigorous growth for this generation of young people. Achieving the dual-carbon goal requires intergenerational inheritance. The younger generation has independent thinking, can think and discover beyond the system formed by their predecessors, and is easy to accept a new lifestyle. I believe that young people can shoulder this mission as soon as possible. "Li Zheng said.
"Start from yourself and start from small things" is an old saying, but Zhou Xiaotong believes that this is not out of date in the face of climate change.During the internship, her colleagues in the Netherlands , Dutch have achieved environmental protection to the extreme: bring their own canvas bags to the supermarket; reduce the number of orders for takeout and express delivery, and ask merchants to minimize plastic packaging; reduce the number of times they wash clothes to save water. "With the warming climate, the rare drought problem in history has repeatedly appeared in the Netherlands. In August this year, the Dutch government also announced that the country was in a state of 'water scarcity'." Under the influence of this Dutch colleague, more and more people brought their own tableware in the office, and Zhou Xiaotong also began to ride a bicycle to and from get off work.
Faced with the "real and urgent challenge" of climate change and environmental protection, many interviewed college students responded actively in the best of their ability. The survey shows that 61.58% of the respondents have participated in environmental protection charity activities or environmental protection work. Specifically, 73.76% of the respondents have participated in cleaning and cleaning public welfare activities, 70.03% of the respondents have participated in live publicity of environmental protection concepts, and 20.56% of the respondents have used their professional expertise to carry out environmental protection work.
"I think among young people, environmental protection concepts and environmental awareness have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Especially now, those born in the 2000s and even the 2000s have strong awareness of energy conservation, emission reduction and green environmental protection." Shen Yiqi has served as a volunteer in knowledge popularization activities and community volunteer activities, introducing content such as garbage classification, degradation and recycling. He found that many young people are willing to contact and deeply understand the knowledge of climate and environmental protection. "My friends and I will also participate in online charity projects, such as donating money to ecological protection zones or donating online charity forests." Li Yuqing felt that such activities were low in cost, easy to achieve, and had a strong sense of participation.
Huang Yanhao, who studies economics and management major, believes that countries around the world should support the development of green industries and introduce corresponding policies to promote the green transformation of some enterprises. Enterprises should also increase investment in green technology, integrate ESG concepts into corporate governance, develop green technology, accelerate green transformation, and become sustainable green enterprises.
survey showed that 77.99% of respondents said they would organize or participate in environmental protection activities in the future, hoping to contribute to environmental protection. In terms of personal career planning , 28.59% of the college students surveyed said that they will invest in environmental protection-related industries or carry out work in related fields in the future, and 58.03% of the college students surveyed said that they may engage in related work in the future or use it as a public welfare undertaking in the future.
Xin Zi feels that although the landscape garden major he studied cannot directly solve the climate problem, they will also pay attention to environmental factors during the garden design and planning process. For example, when designing projects, adapt to local conditions, use more clean energy, and optimize the living environment by establishing a resource circulation system. "Climate change is not only needed to consider by students in climate-related majors. This is a problem faced by all mankind. As college students, if they implement environmental protection concepts in their own fields, and each person will work hard for environmental protection, we can build a better home together."
Zhou Xiaotong is very interested in the statement that "the public uses behavior to guide the market." "In this way, ordinary people have a stronger sense of initiative and responsibility when participating in climate change." In the future, Zhou Xiaotong will continue to pay attention to the dynamics of climate change and environmental protection, and hope to have the opportunity to join non-governmental organization to work for a more livable climate and environment prospect.
Li Zheng hopes that students in related majors or young people in other professional fields can devote themselves more to the cause of responding to climate change. "Under the background of global climate change, students must first build a systematic thinking ability, a global perspective and mentality. When choosing scientific research topics, they should look at their position in the development process of industries, countries and even the world, and target the country's major needs in the fields of energy and climate change. Students in relevant majors can devote themselves to the development and path selection of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. For example, on the energy supply side, how to transform traditional energy systems into new energy systems with clean energy as the main body through innovation, and fundamentally leverage carbon reduction .On the energy demand side, how to accelerate digitalization and electrification based on information technology such as "cloud, large, material, mobile, intelligence, and chain", such as the industrial sector explores hydrogen-energy steelmaking, zero-carbon heating in the construction sector, and the transportation sector adopts more electric vehicles, etc., so as to provide practical and feasible paths and solutions to achieve the dual-carbon goal. "
" Students in other majors can also start with me and start with small things, develop good habits such as turning off electrical appliances casually, green travel, practice low-carbon lifestyle , and make the best contribution to achieving carbon neutrality. At the same time, we can give full play to our knowledge advantages, advocate and organize educational and publicity activities related to climate change, and call for helping to popularize and improve social awareness, so as to drive more people to work together to achieve the dual-carbon goal. "Li Zheng said.
(At the request of the interviewees, all college students in the article are pseudonyms except Huang Yanhao)
Intern reporter of China Youth Daily·China Youth Network Wang Junli Intern Fan Zijing Li Chongming
Source: China Youth Daily
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