Environmental Education in mitigating the climatic effects of the district of Chókwè in Mozambique

Abstract

The present study aimed to promote the debate about what we can do to mitigate the climatic effects in Chókwè-Mozambique, focusing on Environmental Education, conservation, reducing emissions caused by deforestation, sensitizing local communities to the replacement of plants in places with greater degradation and invest in public transport, using less individual vehicles. Based on the results of the questionnaire, a bibliographic survey of a qualitative, quantitative, exploratory and descriptive nature was made. We worked with a sample of 48 people. The research involved a search for various information related to the theme, in order to clearly understand the causes that cause the climatic effects in Chókwè, generating consequences for social relations, population levels, food stocks, the extinction of certain animal species and forest, in new diseases, in population and environmental displacements, favoring the participation of apprentices as an active agent in the process of regulating social relations capable of adjusting conduct, in ecologically sustainable standards and suitable for mitigation and adaptation to climatic effects. For this, several debates were developed with the target audience of the research (charcoal producers, street vendors, minibus drivers, apprentices of the Agrarian Institute of Chókwè, especially teachers), creating innovative and motivating strategies in response to current changes. As a result of the discussions, we verified that the Institute does not have any curricular program that has integrated Environmental Education in the mitigation of climatic effects, not being in compliance with Mozambican legislation.