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EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Powering ahead

Continuing her series on introducing the Sustainable Development Goals, Dr Diane Boyd explores the importance of green energy sources

One in ten people in the world is without electricity. Renewable energy technologies, along with improved energy efficiency, must be key to getting power to everyone.

The renewable energy share of final energy consumption has gradually increased – from 16.3 per cent in 2010 to 17.3 per cent in 2017 – but this needs ‘stepping up’ to meet long-term climate goals.

We can take access to energy for granted and don’t often consider what it is, where it comes from and how valuable a resource it is.

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EYFS (2017) UTW states that ‘Enriching and widening children’s vocabulary will support later reading comprehension’.

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