Climate Change and Disasters: Against the Clock
Read before time runs out and answer questions — analyze the impact of climate change on disaster risk.
What will you learn in this game?
Relationship between climate change and disasters. Understands how climate change affects disasters.
How to use it in class?
Reserve 10–15 minutes at the end of the lesson so students can play individually or in pairs, then discuss the results together. Focus: reinforcing the learning outcome "Relationship between climate change and disasters" with real-life examples.
Reading Text
Question 1 / 3Climate change is increasing disaster risk in terms of both frequency and severity. **Temperature increase → More fires:** When global temperature increases by 1°C, wildfire risk increases by 20-30%. Turkey's 2021 forest fires came after record temperatures. **Sea level rise → Coastal floods:** Sea levels are expected to rise 0.3-1 meters by 2100. This could affect 1 billion people worldwide. **Extreme precipitation events → Urban floods:** In the last 50 years, the frequency of extreme precipitation events has increased by 50%. Concrete cities cannot absorb this water. **Drought → Food insecurity:** Prolonged droughts destroy agricultural land and can lead to migration and conflicts. The Sendai Framework (2015-2030) and the Paris Agreement (2015) are two key international documents that acknowledge the climate-disaster link.