'A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)

Global Issues

In this section of the site, you can research and learn more about a number of important issues relating to international development and global justice. Each could be used in lessons as a source for an investigation.


Debt	Energy	Food	Health	Refugees

Trade	Transport	Waste	Water	Women

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did you know!

Water can be fresh but never new. All the water in the world, in the ice caps, the oceans, the clouds, in the rivers and under the ground, is about a billion years old. There’s always been the same stock of water on Earth, it just moves around the planet, changing to ice or seawater or rain.

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