Climate change and carbon footprint information
Get help with reducing your personal carbon footprint and emissions. Learn about climate change issues and how you can take positive action.
Climate change
Climate change is the long-term shift in temperatures and weather patterns. While natural factors like the sun's activity and volcanic eruptions can cause these shifts, human activities have been the main driver since the 1800s. Burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.
Download our WEAP factsheet to learn more about climate change and find tips to help.
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WEAP: Climate change 101Document
Climate change useful resources
Climate change websitesClimate change websites
- Climate change explained – advice and information from the UK government website
- Effects of climate change – explained by the Met Office
- Climate change – information from Natural History Museum
- Causes and effects of climate change – explained by the United Nations
- What is climate change? A really simple guide - BBC News
- Sustainability advice – independent advice from the Centre for Alternative Technology
- Climate kids – NASA’s guide to climate change, for children
- Walsall local climate action plans, warming stripes, local emissions and initiatives – Walsall information from Carbon Copy
- What does net zero mean for you? - information from Citizens Advice
Understanding and reducing your carbon footprint
A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted by an individual, organization, event, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent. Greenhouse gases can contribute to climate change. Finding ways to reduce your carbon footprint can have a positive effect on climate change.
Download our WEAP factsheet to learn more about carbon footprint and find tips to help.
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WEAP: Carbon FootprintDocument
Carbon footprint useful resources
Carbon footprint websites
- Learn why your footprint matters and the Footprint Calculator – Information from World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
- Climate change insights, families and households, UK – Data from Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- Carbon footprint of every day items – Advice from Clever Carbon
- Carbon footprint lesson plan for teachers – a resource for teachers from Clever Carbon
- The Carbon Literacy Project – advice and support from the Carbon Literacy Project
You Tube resources
These links will open videos on You Tube.
- What’s your diet’s carbon footprint calculator – Information from BBC News
- What is food sustainability and why is it important – advice from BBC Bitesize
- Grown your own fruit, vegetables and herbs – tips from RHS Gardening
- 10 easy to grow vegetables for beginners – tips from BBC Gardeners World magazine
- Fruit and veg for children to grow – a guide from BBC Good Food
- Cooking sustainably and reducing food waste – advice from FoodPrint
- Allotment and community gardens in Walsall – Walsall Council
- Goscote Greenacres – Community garden
- Caldmore Garden – Community garden
- Plan my journey – information from Transport for West Midlands
- Cycling and cycle routes in Walsall – Walsall Council
- Walsall bike project and community cycling club
- Wyrley and Essington canal walks – information from Canal and River Trust
