Effective Climate Action
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Provided by: OER Project|Published on: August 21, 2025
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Synopsis
- In this module from the OER Project: Climate, students will learn about the most effective ways to implement climate solutions for different groups, individuals, and organizations.
- Students will understand the levers of power that can contribute to solutions, evaluate a climate solution, and hear and read examples of young people making a difference.
- This is one of many lessons in the online Climate course by OER Project.
Subjects: Economics, Civics
Authors: OER Project: Climate
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource does a great job of focusing on climate action from a broader lens, without making the bulk of the information about reducing individual carbon footprints.
- Students will be inspired by the various stories of young people making a difference and taking action.
Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with the causes, impacts, and adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change.
- It may benefit students to be familiar with government and non-government organizations that work to address problems.
- To access teaching tools, like a teacher guide to accompany this module, teachers will need to create a free account.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Teachers can use the Climate Action Sort activity as both a pre-assessment and a post-assessment to measure what students learned from the reading.
- After reading about the business levers of change, students can further explore greenwashing with this lesson.
- To further illustrate the intersectionality of climate change as described in the video, teachers can show students the UN Sustainable Development Goals and explain that climate change is woven into all of the goals.
- To have the video pause to ask questions, students will have to check the box below the video.
This lesson teaches students about effective climate action and how different levels of action are best done by different groups (individuals, NGOs, governments, etc.). Students will read about a variety of climate actions, their obstacles, and how these were addressed. The information presented is accurate, and this resource is recommended for teaching.
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