- Each year more than 6 million people die from air pollution.
- Around 150,000 people die every year due to extreme weather conditions.
- About 7 million hectares of forests are cut down due to deforestation.
- About 3 billion people rely on dirty fuels such as: animal waste and charcoal.
- Each year 8 million tons of plastic get dumped into the oceans.
Problems this initiative aims to tackle:
- Lack of knowledge and understanding when it comes to education on environmental sustainability.
- Citizens are usually concerned for the environment but when it comes to taking action they tend to pay no attention to it.
- Difficulties in integrating environmental sustainability into mainstream
activities in educational institutions.
Solutions:
- MHR encourages all efforts towards ending environmental issues and adopting better ways to ensure environmental sustainability.
- MHR supports and endorses this initiative for enhancing the environment.
- MHR recommends that civil society organizations get more opportunities in equipping schools and educational institutions with the right tools to increase environmental sustainability, such as lectures and seminars.
- MHR suggests that all educational institutions integrate knowledge on environmental sustainability and include them in the curriculum.
- Allow more hands-on activities regarding environmental sustainability such as: school trips, projects and community work.
- Recognize all the disastrous things that happened and are still happening till now to the environment such as: deforestation, pollution, plastic getting dumped into the oceans and global warming.
- Encourage young learners to come up with new creative ideas and solutions towards environmental sustainability.
- Encourage students to move from awareness of the environmental issues to an understanding of these issues and helping to overcome them through the previously stated points.
