UNESCO BSP Webinar Air quality, lichens, climate change and citizen science

Air pollution is one of the world’s largest health and environmental problems. Globally, death rates from air pollution have been falling which has mainly been the result of progress on tackling indoor pollution but still a lot can be done to prevent outdoor pollution.

The webinar is part of the Baltic Sea Project’s air quality month and is designed to give participants some background information on the global air quality problem; to provide some examples about citizen science projects; to share concrete methods to motivate action connected to the Sustainable Development Goals related to air quality; to ask schools to join lichen BioBlitz and to teach how to use the iNaturalist application; to share a lichen identifier sheet (printable) for the 12 most common bioindicators for air quality around the Baltic Sea; and to call out for a lichen-related art campaign “Green life among lichen”. Everything to help you create active and interesting school lessons in your country for better environmental understanding as a member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network! So, join us!