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CARBON ALMANAC
RWS has been recognised as a Foundational Partner by
the Carbon Almanac after translating its children’s version
of the popular book into multiple languages.
The Carbon Almanac is a collaboration amongst hundreds
of writers, researchers, thinkers and illustrators which
provides fully referenced, authoritative information on the
impact of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases on the climate.
The children’s version, Generation Carbon, is a free eBook
with a wealth of facts and information about climate
change. It has tips on how to make a difference, presented
using diagrams, cartoons and illustrations, in an easy-tounderstand format.
“We’re extremely grateful to the team at RWS for providing
their outstanding language services,”
explains Seth Godin, Founder of the Carbon Almanac.
“The earlier we’re able to educate people about their
impact on the world and climate change, the more chance
we have of fighting it. RWS linguistic expertise has enabled
us to bring our insights to a younger audience on a scale
that has a real chance of making an impact.”
The RWS language teams, based globally, have so far
translated Generation Carbon into Arabic, Chinese,
Spanish (Latin American), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and
Korean, with others in progress.
As language and translation is in our DNA, this was an
exciting project for RWS to get involved in. Through our
teams’ involvement we were able to bring together our
core linguistic skills, project management and desktop
publishing abilities to unlock understanding of the climate
crisis among the world’s youngest generation.
Target languages were selected, based on multiple
criteria including number of speakers globally, volume of
greenhouse gas emissions in associated countries and
the risk of inundation in prominent urban centres from
climate-related sea-level rise.
The result is an informative and authoritative eBook that
makes a complex subject easy for children to digest and
understand and addresses a hugely important issue that
affects each and every one of us.
Generation Carbon is
available for free download
from the Carbon Almanac
website
https://
thecarbonalmanac.org/
kids/translations/
Cathryn Barnard from The Carbon Almanac presented a print version of the book to Thomas Labarthe, President of RWS Language Services and
Technology, to thank RWS for translating the children's version of the book, Generation Carbon, into multiple languages.
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