UNSDG #13: Climate Action

Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most.

Affordable, scalable solutions are now available to enable countries to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies. The pace of change is quickening as more people are turning to renewable energy and a range of other measures that will reduce emissions and increase adaptation efforts. Climate change, however, is a global challenge that does not respect national borders. It is an issue that requires solutions that need to be coordinated at the international level to help developing countries move toward a low-carbon economy.

To strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris, which went into force in November of 2016. In the agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees centigrade. As of April 2018, 175 parties had ratified the Paris Agreement and 10 developing countries had submitted their first iteration of their national adaptation plans for responding to climate change.
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2022
Wednesday, April 27th
9:30 AM

Turning Microbial Fuel Cells into Power

Aishat Balogun '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Amaya Phipps '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Raymond Schumacher '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Our lead project is about turning microbial fuel cells from plants into power that lower-income suburbs of Chicago can utilize. Many low-income places in the Chicago suburbs live without power and may not have access to electricity or certain technologies. Places of work, schools, and hospitals may need to utilize technology that they don’t have access to. That can ... Read More

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:55 AM

Environmental Activism

Zuyu Liu '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Annika Johnson '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Giada Avina '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Our project is to organize a march and a summit for the environment. This would all be led by student leaders and our main audience would also be students, as it’s important to educate them on the issues of climate change. Our plan is to have local student leaders talk about their progress working with schools, organizations, and municipalities to ... Read More

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

The Impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change on Human Populations

Antonio Gasse '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Daniel Shafiabady '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Vignesh Tiruvannamalai '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

This project involves gathering information from United States national data sources to gain a deeper understanding of changes in temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather data. The goal of the project is to organize the information into a manner which demonstrates the more obscure impacts of global warming and climate change on the United States, beyond just the atmospheric temperature ... Read More

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

Water+

Jesrein Ayeyi '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Nitya Jakka '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Mesoma Akpuokwe '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Our group decided to focus on addressing the 13th UNSDG, climate action. With climate change approaching, more solutions to save our planet need to be implemented. During the research phase, we found that droughts are becoming increasingly common. In California, especially the Bay Area, droughts harm the environment and daily lifestyles. Droughts also reduce water supply for people inhabiting ... Read More

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

10:20 AM

Climate Action Group

Malcolm Wilson-Ahlstrom '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Nikola Freund '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Laura XXX '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Tatyana Pronitcheva '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Roughly 4.13 million tons of trash is produced each year in the city of Chicago, approximately 70% of which is compostable. Our step towards reducing trash pollution, specifically within Chicago, is to implement city wide composting. By composting we can significantly lower the amount of trash produced, in result decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. In order to successfully execute composting ... Read More

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

10:45 AM

Food to Fuel

Srihari Gurugubelli '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Victoria Nalepka '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Ethan Remedios '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Danica Sun '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Within the IMSA community, there are undoubtedly many issues that pose an environmental threat. However, the issue we’ve chosen to address is the excessive food waste produced by students at Lexington that we fail to deal with in an environmentally friendly manner. Specifically, the food waste we produce is left to decompose and release many tons of methane into ... Read More

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM