Teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Overview As a High School or Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as outlined by the United Nations for nations to adopt and work towards, for a sustainable future. This lesson plan […]

Marxist Theories and Climate Change

Marxist Theories and Climate Change Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics or Social Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching social theoriesin Marxism. This lesson plan will allow you to introduce Marxism in social theory taught across Sociology, Political Science, Economics, and other disciplines. It includes teaching […]

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade

Environmental Economics: Cap-and-Trade Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching climate mitigation environmental policies and specifically about the cap-and-trade system. This lesson plan allows you to teach about economic policy responses to climate change. This lesson plan includes resources to explain various policy […]

Measuring Value of Abatement for Climate Policy

Impact of Climate Change on Measuring Value of Abatement for Climate Policy Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about implementation of environmental policies by measuring the value of abatement. This lesson plan will enable you to teach your students about assessing […]

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Teaching Opportunity Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Overview Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching about opportunity costs using an in-class experiment of trading emissions permits for the use of a hypothetical fuel that emits greenhouse gases. Global warming due to greenhouse gas […]

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Policy for ‘Green Recovery’

Impact of Climate Change on The COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic Policy for ‘Green Recovery’ Overview As an Undergraduate Economics teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students how countries around the world design economic policies for a ‘green recovery’ from the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by reducing carbon emissions while […]

Introduction to Climate Change Economics

Introduction to Climate Change Economics Video A video micro lecture by David Archer, The University of Chicago, titled ‘The Economics of Climate Change’ which is a part of an e-learning course on science and modelling of climate change. This video discusses the ‘tragedy of commons’ to understand how climate change impacts society. The lecture also […]

Climate Change in the Economics Classroom

Climate Change in the Economics Classroom Video A video lecture by Rahul Chopra, TROP ICSU and IISER Pune on climate change educational resources that Economics teachers can use in their classrooms. These educational resources integrate climate change understanding with the core curriculum in Economics. This video lecture is part of an online e-learning course (MOOC) […]