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Climate Solutions 101: Making It All Happen
Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 9-12, 6-8, ap-college
Synopsis
- This video discusses how to start enacting the many solutions to climate change, including the cost savings and social benefits that these solutions provide.
- It discusses the implementation required and identifies solutions that span from individual actions to large-scale changes in regulations, agriculture, investments, transportation, and government expenditures.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Engineering
Authors: Project Drawdown
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This is a positive video that encourages people to take action and support climate solutions.
- The video can be divided up into shorter sections, if needed.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with topics such as taxes, government subsidies that support certain industries, and climate change.
- The narrator says "hell" at 56 seconds into the video.
- This is the final video in a series of six videos from Project Drawdown called "Climate Solutions 101."
Differentiation
- This video could be used as an exit ticket for STEM classes after learning about climate change.
- There are additional links to more information for extension material.
- Students could research the various solutions to climate change in more detail using this table of solutions.
- Other resources about climate change solutions include this video on empowering women and girls, this StC lesson on solutions to climate change, this StC lesson on Wangari Maathai and deforestation, and this video about food waste.
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About the Partner Provider
Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.
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