Debt and Climate Change

Suggested age range: 12 - adult
Estimated time required: Five - six minutes, or longer if speaker notes used extensively.
Format: PowerPoint

Details: Accompanies the Debt and Climate Change briefing published by Jubilee Debt Campaign in mid-2007, or can stand alone as an introduction to the issue. A simple presentation of some basic facts, along with many photographs, showing how climate change is particularly affecting poor indebted countries, how their debt burdens make the situation worse, and how the rich world's 'carbon debt' far outweighs any financial debts these countries can be said to owe.
Includes speaker notes.


Publisher: Jubilee Debt Campaign
Cost: free

Curriculum Links include:
Citizenship
RE
Science
Geography