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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.
Energieeinsparung ist angesagt - auch in öffentlichen Gebäuden. Das größte Problem für eine Umsetzung des vernünftigen Gedankens stellt zumeist der öffentliche Haushalt dar, denn eine energetische Sanierung will finanziert sein und die Kassen sind leer. Für mehrere Schulgebäude in Nordrhein-Westfalen wird seit einigen Jahren mit Erfolg ein Finanzierungsmodell angewandt, das privates Kapital einsetzt. Interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürger investieren in Solar- und Sparmaßnahmen und erhalten im Verlauf der Projektlaufzeit über die realisierten Energiekosteneinsparungen ihr Kapital (plus Rendite) zurück. Die erfolgreichen "Solar&Spar"-Pilotprojekte des Wuppertal Instituts zeigen inzwischen, dass der Modellversuch praxistauglich ist.
Solar&Spar
(2003)