Understanding Climate change within a sustainable school in Community of Madrid (Spain)

Our high school belongs to the network of Sustainable Schools of the Community of Madrid, so we develop lines of work in all the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with a transversal approach (SDG4 Quality Education) in a general goal named Planet (SDG6 Clean water and sanitation, SDG12 Responsible consumption and production, SDG13 Climate action, SDG14 Life below water and SDG15 Life on land) that we show in our poster.

We offer information of the facilities and the experiences that we do with our students, for example:

• Urban garden: study and caring of species that are more resilient to water scarcity.

• Amphibian pond: to mitigate the effect of loss of these spaces in urban or rural environments due to global warming.

• Insect hotel: refuge for insects in an urban environment.

• Composting of organic waste.

• Regeneration of the garden trees with species better adapted to high temperatures.

• Vertical garden: more efficient irrigation systems for extreme heat or cold (continental climate in the area).

• Bicycle parking to encourage the use of sustainable transport.

• Selective waste collection and recycling at the high school.

• Awareness of reducing energy and water consumption: electricity, heating, etc.

• Adaptation of the buildings to the increase in temperatures in summer.

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