Literasi Karbon dalam kalangan Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Rendah: Kajian Kes di Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya

Abstract

Carbon literacy is a key medium to enhance the understanding of an individual's consciousness on reducing carbon emissions in the atmosphere towards addressing the issue of global warming and climate change. This article aims to identify the level of carbon literacy among lower secondary schools students in Malaysia. The study involved 463 Form 2 students from eleven schools in the Federal Territory of Putrajaya. The schools were selected using a systematic sampling and respondents were selected using a simple random sampling. Questionnaire Likert scale of 1 to 5 were used as a research instrument. Carbon literacy variable studies include four variables, namely the carbon footprint knowledge, low carbon attitudes, carbon literate value and low carbon practices. Carbon footprint knowledge variables consist of six sub variables: energy saving, recycling, mode of travel, carbon footprint, air pollution and the greenhouse effect. As for the variables of carbon literacy attitude, sub variables consist of energy saving, recycling and mode of travel followed by sub variables of carbon literacy value of the individual and the society. And for the practice of low-carbon, it consists of sub variables, namely energy saving, recycling and mode of travel. Result showed that the questionnaire reliability obtained with Cronbach alpha values for each variable was greater than 0.7. Meanwhile, the level of knowledge of the carbon footprint, low-carbon attitudes, values and practices of low-carbon literacy carbon is at a high level as a whole except for the variable sub knowledge that air pollution is moderate. These findings demonstrated that carbon literacy level of students at the high level and the situation are clear implications of a positive target inapplicable in Federal Territory of Putrajaya towards a Low Carbon City and Green City in 2025.