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Green Schools Program Green Schools Program

What does the Green Flag represent? What is the Green-Schools How does a school get a

program? Green-Schools award?

The EU have made the sustainable development

Goals to reduce the speed of global warming

Companys and organisations must comply with the

rules to not get heavily taxes

kilkenny, with the new libaray opening.

they want to adopt these new changes In Ireland, Green-Schools is operated in partnership with Local

Authorities and has been a fully national programme since 2001.

Internationally it is known as ‘Eco-schools’. The award part of the

scheme comes in the form of a green flag - a now well respected

and recognised Eco-label.

Schools take trips to places there they can learn about the

environment hands on for example going to their local gardening

centre, a farming centre, or library

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