{"id":24991,"date":"2024-02-28T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24991"},"modified":"2024-02-28T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:02:09","slug":"environmental-group-launches-carbon-footprint-calculator-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/28\/environmental-group-launches-carbon-footprint-calculator-for-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental group launches carbon footprint calculator for teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_root__k7ljh Paragraph_default-sm-default__L4V1G paragraph_paragraph__OMza9\"><span>Luxembourg&#039;s Sustainable Development Council on Tuesday launched a carbon footprint calculator for children and teenagers to help them better understand their personal habits and how they affect the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_root__k7ljh Paragraph_default-sm-default__L4V1G paragraph_paragraph__OMza9\"><span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a class=\"LinkText_root___HNvL annotation-link_annotationLink__9FZsn\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/dain.co2-rechner.de\/de_DE\/consumption#panel-calc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web application<\/a><\/span>\u00a0D\u00e4in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"LinkText_root___HNvL annotation-link_annotationLink__9FZsn\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/dain.co2-rechner.de\/de_DE\/consumption#panel-calc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CO2 calculator<\/a><\/em><\/span><span>\u00a0aims to &quot;reach young people in their language&quot;, said Jacques Pir for\u00a0<em>Luxembourg Times<\/em>\u00a0. &quot;It&#039;s not about pointing the finger at them,&quot; but instead giving them something to act on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_root__k7ljh Paragraph_default-sm-default__L4V1G paragraph_paragraph__OMza9\"><span>\u201cStudents are aware [of the climate crisis], but in the school curriculum it is not considered as a subject \u2013 like maths or science. This is not the time to deal with such topics,\u201d Pir said, adding that the intention was not to \u201cburden\u201d students completely, but to show how they can begin to contribute to mitigation efforts. (<em>Tracy Heindrichs, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxtimes.lu\/luxembourg\/environmental-group-launches-carbon-footprint-calculator-for-teens\/8797065.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.luxtimes.lu<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Luxembourg Council for Sustainable Development launched a carbon footprint calculator for children and teenagers on Tuesday to help them better understand their personal habits and how they affect the environment. The web app, D\u00e4in CO2 Rechner, aims to \u201cspeak to young people in their own language,\u201d Jacques Pir told the Luxembourg Times. \u201cIt\u2019s not about pointing fingers at them,\u201d but instead [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-kalkulacka"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}