Henry, Aanya, Yafei, Yousouf, Isabella, Jude and Likhita from the Brentwood Green Team, with the help of Year 12 Environmental Science students, hosted an online workshop on 25 August 2021 for our community titled ‘Climate Action: Target 2030’. This webinar was intended to bring together schools in Victoria and hopefully, across Australia in the future, to discuss actions taken to tackle climate change.
42 participants from 12 different organisations/schools attended this workshop. The consensus of the webinar was positive and very educational for everyone. The teachers and students from Brandon Park Primary School said, "Those students were so passionate, and it was thoroughly engaging and informative!". This was a really great experience for me as a student and gave me the opportunity to enhance my public speaking and presenting skills.
Some of the highlights shared during the webinar included:
- Brentwood emitted 540 tons of Bremissions in 2019. Our greenhouse gas emissions dropped by nearly 23% from 2015 to 2019 due to installation of solar PV, LED upgrade, recycling, tree planting and composting.
- Brentwood is optimistic to achieve a net zero-emissions school by 2030 through the new initiatives that are going to be introduced.
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The Q&A segment towards the end of the workshop provided everyone an opportunity to share the actions they are taking in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Please watch the recording of our webinar here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQbV19Uikao
Yousouf Palitanawala
Year 11 student & Green Team vice-captain