TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Albert-Seifried, Sebastian
A1  - Nawothnig, Lotte
A1  - Tholen, Lena
A1  - Seifried, Dieter
A1  - Straßen, Amelie
A1  - Vogler, Amelie
A1  - Venjakob, Maike
A1  - Wagner, Oliver
T1  - Secondary school student participation in carbon footprint assessment for schools
N2  - More and more cities are setting themselves ambitious climate protection targets, including CO2 neutrality. Schools are important institutions of cities and therefore they have to play a central role in achieving this goal. 
With the investment backlog building up and pressure from the Friday for Future movement increasing, the Wuppertal Institute and Büro Ö-quadrat have initiated the project Schools4Future, aiming to support secondary schools to become climate-neutral. In cooperation with secondary school students and teachers, the project team evaluated the existing situation of the participating schools and developed GHG-balances and feasible climate protection concepts. For this purpose, an Excel-based carbon footprint (CF) assessment tool for schools has been developed which is freely available. The tool covers all important emission areas, including heating energy, electricity use, travel to and from schools, school trips, the school canteen and paper consumption. The students were found capable to conduct the CF assessment with the guidance of the teacher, information materials and support of the researchers. So far, six pilot schools have completed their CF assessment with emissions ranging between 335 and 944 kg CO2 per person. 
In this paper we present the tool and compare the CF assessment of some schools. We further elaborate on how the tool and project has increased the climate awareness and self-efficacy of students and even stimulated measures by the school board.
T2  - Agents of change : ECEEE 2022 summer study on energy efficiency ; 6-11 June 2022
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-80186
UN  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-80186
SP  - 743
EP  - 748
PB  - European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
CY  - Stockholm
PB  - European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
CY  - Stockholm
ER  -