A guidebook of gender-sensitive approaches to climate change policy for city planning. It discusses the different ways in which women and men are affected by climate change. This guidebook includes discussions on gender inequalities such as gender division of labour, gender differentials in income, gender biases in decision making, and other factors contributing to climate vulnerability.
Students will understand how climate change impacts genders differently. They will also learn the importance of gender sensitivity in formulating climate change policies. Students will be introduced to gender sensitive climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience in cities.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
How does climate change affect genders differently?
Give a few reasons why climate change policies should use a gender-sensitive approach
What are the priorities for gender-sensitive climate policies at urban levels?
About the Tool
Tool Name
Gender and Urban Climate Policy: Gender-Sensitive Policies Make a Difference
Discipline
Humanities, Social Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Gender, Gender and Climate Change, Gender Inequality, Urban Planning, Public Policy, Climate Change Policy, Climate Vulnerability
Climate Topic
Climate and Society, Policies, Politics, and Environmental Governance
Type of Tool
Reading
Grade Level
Undergraduate, Graduate
Location
Global
Language
English
Translation
–
Developed by
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
A teaching module developed by Climateprediction.net on climate physics and climate models. The module for ‘A level Physics’ students includes introductory resources, exercises and worksheets on climate change models. The module consists of the following sections:
Introducing climate prediction
Climate modelling using Modellus
Simple Climate Model
The logistic equation
Advanced Climate Model
Science Behind the News Headlines
Students will be introduced to iterative modelling with spatial and temporal resolutions that can be used in Gas Laws and Thermal Physics. They will also learn about advanced logistic equations and how to apply them to the issue of climate change.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is a simple energy balance model?
How can logistic equations be used to predict climate and weather changes?
Discuss, with example, how climate change science is portrayed in the media?
About the tool
Tool Name
A level Physics
Discipline
Physics
Topic(s) in Discipline
Climate Physics, Thermal Physics, Gas Law, Atmospheric Physics, Chaos Theory, Chaotic Systems, Climate Change Models, Logistic Equation, Greenhouse Gas Effect
Climate Topic
Planetary Energy Balance; Planetary Climate; Climate Variability Record
A video that introduces permafrost and its distribution on Earth. The video also describes the changing nature of permafrost across several regions due to higher surface temperatures and the possible impact of permafrost thawing on Earth’s climate.
A video/microlecture by The Knowledge Exchange that discusses the impacts of climate change on society. This video was excerpted from an edX course, “Making Sense of Climate Change Denial” available at https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-of-climate-science-denial. It includes discussions by various experts on direct and immediate societal impacts of climate change and on development, production, consumption and biodiversity. The video also talks about the difference in climate change impacts for developed and developing nations.
Students will understand the effect of climate change on present day society. They will also learn how climate change affects developing communities and nations. They will further discuss how climate change is no longer a problem for the future but one that must be dealt with immediately.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
How does climate change impact society?
How does climate change impact developing and developed nations differently?
What are some of the current climate change issues?
A reading that describes natural carbon sources and sinks. This reading by Noelle Eckley Selin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes how anthropogenic activities alter the concentration of carbon in various sources and sinks, thus, contributing to global warming.
Students will learn about the various types of carbon sinks and sources. They will further understand the importance of the removal of this excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using technologies for carbon capture and storage, and carbon sequestration.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What are the natural sources and sinks of carbon on Earth?
Discuss the importance of carbon sequestration for climate mitigation.
Discuss carbon sequestration through carbon capture and storage technologies.
About the tool
Tool Name
Carbon Sequestration
Discipline
Chemistry, Environmental Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Sources and Sinks
Climate Topic
Climate and the Atmosphere; Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; Climate and the Biosphere; Climate and the Lithosphere
A reading that describes the relationship between climate change and the occurrence of newly emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19. This reading by Daisy Dunne for Climate Brief discusses the rise in zoonotic diseases due to changes in habitats and closer interactions of humans and wild animals. It further highlights how these interactions are exacerbated by land-use changes such as deforestation and habitat loss.
Students will learn how climate change induced changes to biodiversity and habitat could lead to transmission of viruses from animals to humans. They will further understand how and why pandemics could develop when climate change affects the biogeographical distribution of species.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
Why is there a possibility of increased incidence of newly emerging viruses in recent times?
How could climate change increase the risk of inter-species virus spillover in the future?
Discuss some of the factors necessary for the transmission of diseases from animals to humans.
About the tool
Tool Name
Q & A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?
A video lecture that discusses international climate change policy and governance by Navroz Dubash, Center for Policy Research. This video lecture is part 1 of a 2-part lecture series titled ‘Climate Change: Policy and Governance: Global Negotiations and Domestic Policy Making’ of a MOOC. This MOOC has been developed by the National Resource Center on Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.
The lecture includes four main discussion sections:
Understanding climate change science: This section discusses the basics of climate science and focuses on two main questions- “why is climate change a problem?” and “how does climate science shape climate politics and policy?”
Challenges of tackling climate change: This section largely focuses on why climate change is a difficult issue for countries to tackle.
History of climate change negotiations: This section discusses the various climate change negotiations that have taken place over the last 20 years and a structure for future international negotiations and policies.
The Paris Agreement of 2015: This section discusses the 2015 international climate change agreement.
Through the use of global and regional data, the lecture discusses global warming and international agreements and treaties. The lecture discusses the concept of “zero-sum allocation” which highlights the finite nature of carbon dioxide that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Here, Dubash poses the question of “who gets to emit this carbon?”. Through the use of the example of air pollution, he also highlights the concept of “positive-sum approach” that discusses the possibility of increasing development as well as reducing carbon emissions. The lecture then discusses how countries believe that climate change is a “zero-sum” problem that would negatively impact economic development and often leads to reduced responsibility for their climate actions. Dubash discusses how this may influence economic and foreign policy. The lecture also discusses the term “polycentric governance” that describes the climate problem as a net problem of actions and choices by individuals, communities, corporations, cities, states and countries, where mitigation would involve understanding the root of those choices. The video describes the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992), The Kyoto Protocol ( 1997), the Copenhagen Climate Convention (2009) and the Paris Agreement (2015) and their implications on geopolitical alliances, competition between countries, global development and international negotiations.
Students will be introduced to the history, frameworks and challenges of international climate change policy and governance. They will also learn about the implications and debates about concepts such as “zero-sum allocation” and “positive-sum approach” on a regional and national level. Students will further learn how the various international climate change agreements have shaped geopolitical alliances, global development, foreign policy and the overall global climate context. They will also learn about the negotiations that developed and developing countries have put forth to ensure maximisation of their economies without compromising on development. Additionally, students will learn about the need to understand the fundamentals of climate change science to ensure efficient policy and decision making.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
Discuss the history of international climate change negotiations.
Discuss and debate the issue of development versus mitigation in the context of climate change
About the tool
Tool Name
W10 CO8 LO1 Climate Change: Policy and Governance: Global Negotiations and Domestic Policy Making
Discipline
Social Sciences, Public Policy, International Relations
Topic(s) in Discipline
Public Policy, Climate Policy, International Studies, Governance, Paris Agreement, Development, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992), The Kyoto Protocol ( 1997), Copenhagen Climate Convention (2009), Paris Agreement (2015)
Climate Topic
Policies, Politics and Environmental Governance, Energy, Economics and Climate Change
Type of tool
Video (48 mins)
Grade Level
Undergraduate, Graduate
Location
Global
Language
English
Translation
Developed by
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
An article by Richard Barwell, University of Ottawa titled ’Climate change in the mathematics classroom: a local approach to a global challenge’ that describes how mathematics teachers can prepare their students to engage with climate change. This reading hosted on the Canadian Mathematical Society’s website includes discussions on the following topics:
The mathematics of climate change
The role of citizens
A critical mathematics perspective
Mathematics teaching and climate change: a local approach
Students will understand the role of mathematics in understanding and dealing with climate change. They will also discuss the use of mathematics in emphasizing the role of citizens when dealing with climate change.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is the role of mathematics in understanding climate change?
How can local weather and climate data be used in mathematics teaching?
About the Tool
Tool Name
Climate change in the mathematics classroom: a local approach to a global challenge
A reading that describes how the cement industry contributes to global warming. This reading by Carbon Brief discusses the production of traditional cement and how this contributes to 8% of carbon dioxide emissions globally. It further highlights the projected increase in demand for concrete, particularly in developing countries, and how this could potentially raise emissions further.
Students will learn about global large-scale cement production and the resulting carbon emissions. They will also learn about alternate and ‘novel’ methods of production that are being researched and the complexities of switching to these modes of production. They will further understand the practical, political and economic complexities with respect to cutting emissions as per global standards.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is cement and how is it produced?
List some of the reasons ‘emissions per tonne of output’ has reduced in cement production? In contrast, why are sector emissions still on the rise?
Discuss the current ‘roadmap’ of cement production with respect to the 2C scenario.
About the tool
Tool Name
‘Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change’
Discipline
Chemistry, Environmental Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Environmental Chemistry, Cement, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pollution
Climate Topic
Climate and the Atmosphere; Climate and the Anthroposphere
A reading by Chris Budd, University of Bath titled ‘The Mathematics of Climate Change’ that discusses the use of mathematical concepts and techniques to address climate change. The reading demonstrates the use of mathematical modelling, probability, statistics, dynamical systems theory and scientific computing to understand global warming, loss of ice, sea level rise, extreme weather events and make future predictions.
Students will understand how mathematics contributes in understanding the Earth’s climate system and climate change.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is the role of mathematics in understanding climate change?
How can mathematical models be used for climate prediction?
A video lecture by Rahul Chopra, TROP ICSU and IISER Pune on climate change educational resources that Environmental Sciences teachers can use in their classrooms. These educational resources integrate climate change understanding with the core curriculum in Environmental Sciences. This video lecture is part of an online e-learning course (MOOC) titled ‘Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines’ developed by the National Resource Centre (NRC) on Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune as part of the Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT), Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India.
This video lecture presents several lesson plans and teaching tools that Environmental Sciences teachers can use to teach topics in their discipline using climate related activities, case studies and examples. It also includes discussions on the use of digital pedagogy for effective classroom instruction. This lecture presents how Environmental Sciences teachers can teach topics such as Water Security, Human Health and Disease, Climate Justice, Agro-ecosystems, Food Production and Crop Yields, Climate Resilient Agriculture, Energy, among others.
About the Tool
Tool Name
Climate Change in the Environmental Sciences Classroom
Discipline
Environmental Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Climate Change Overview
Climate Topic
Climate Literacy
Type of tool
Video/ Microlecture (52 mins)
Grade Level
High School, Undergraduate
Location
Global
Language
English
Translation
Developed by
Rahul Chopra, TROP ICSU and IISER Pune
Hosted at
YouTube Channel of IISER Pune
Link
Climate Change in the Environmental Sciences Classroom:- Link Climate Change: A Guide For Teachers Of All Disciplines:- Link
A video lecture by Andrew Szasz, University of California, Santa Cruz titled ‘A Sociology of Climate Change’ that discusses how climate change can be taught in the Sociology classroom. This video lecture includes discussions on the following:
Societal causes of climate change
Causes identified in the “green” updating of Classical Theory
Causes identified in the contemporary Environmental Sociology
Climate impact on society
Extreme weather events
Food
Water
Health and Illness
Economic impacts, at the level of the nation (U.S)
Political impacts
Unequal impacts, globally, among nations
Unequal impacts, in the U.S., by State and by region
Unequal impacts, in the U.S., by race and class
The potential for catastrophic impacts
Societal responses to climate change
The science; discovery; communicating; activism
Climate activism, the social movements
Climate denial, the counter-movement
Private sector actors, pro and con
Non-environmental “civil society” actors, pro and con
Traditional media-print (newspapers), network television
Online media- websites, blogs, social media
Public opinion
Policy- international; other nations
Policy- federal (US)
Policy- State, local (US)
Technological innovation (clean, renewable energy); green cities
“Plan B”: geoengineering
Students will understand the importance of the Social Sciences and the discipline of Sociology in understanding climate change.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
How does society contribute to climate change?
What are some of the impacts climate change has and may have on society?
How has society responded to the threat of climate change?
A computer-based game that shows the carbon footprints of different types of food. The objective of the game is to click on images of different foods – for example, cheese, banana and steak – from lowest to highest carbon footprint before the 30-second timer runs out. The clock is paused each time an answer is submitted to show whether players answered correctly. At the end of the game, a tally is provided of right and wrong answers.
Students will be introduced to the carbon footprints of different foods. Before they begin the game, students may take a moment to read descriptions of carbon footprints of different foods that are provided in the form of a slideshow at the bottom of the screen.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is the carbon footprint of different foods?
How have anthropogenic emissions impacted Earth’s climate change?
Discuss why animal-based products generally have greater carbon footprints.
A reading tited ‘Role of Chemistry in Earth’s Climate’ by A. R. Ravishankara, Yinon Rudich, and John A. Pyle in the American Chemical Society. This article is part of the ‘Chemistry in Climate’ special issue and provides an overview of the links between chemistry and climate change. This short article describes how concepts in chemistry can be used to understand the Earth’s climate including the correlation between the release of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, aerosols and global warming.
Students will be introduced to how the study of chemistry can contribute towards our understanding of the Earth’s climate and climate change due to anthropogenic causes. They will also learn about greenhouse gases, carbon chemistry, various pollutants and how they impact Earth’s climate.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is the role of chemistry in understanding climate change?
How have anthropogenic emissions impacted Earth’s climate change?
About the tool
Tool Name
Role of Chemistry in Earth’s Climate
Discipline
Chemistry, Earth Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Climate Change Overview, Environmental Chemistry
Climate Topic
Introduction to Climate Change; Climate Literacy
Type of tool
Reading
Grade Level
High School, Undergraduate
Location
Global
Language
English
Translation
Developed by
A. R. Ravishankara, Yinon Rudich, and John A. Pyle
A reading titled, ‘Finding Chemistry Connections in Climate Change’ by Jason Olsen for the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT), provides an introduction to climate change, its impacts and their connection to chemistry. This reading includes discussions on topics in Chemistry that teachers can teach which have a connection with climate change understanding. These include
Chemical Reactions including conservation of mass, combustion reactions, balancing equations, stoichiometry/moles, exothermic reactions linked to Burning Fossil Fuels and CO2 Production as Climate Change Topics
Gas Laws including pressure, temperature; Density including convection; Enthalpy; Kinetic Molecular Theory including states of matter, phase changes, latent heat linked to Extreme Weather Events as Climate Change Topics.
Kinetic Molecular Theory including states of matter, phase changes; Conservation of mass linked to Declining Arctic Sea Ice, Decreased Snow Cover, Glacial Retreat and Sea Level Rise as Climate Change Topics.
Solutions including dissolved gases; Acids and bases linked to Ocean Acidification as Climate Change Topic.
Kinetic Molecular Theory including molecular motion, temperature; Enthalpy linked to Global Temperature/ Ocean Temperature as Climate Change Topics.
Covalent bonds including molecular vibrations linked to Greenhouse Effect as Climate Change Topic.
Students will be introduced to the main causes and effects of climate change. They will further understand the connections between chemistry and climate change, including burning fossil fuels and chemical reactions, extreme weather events and gas laws, and changing sea levels and Kinetic Molecular Theory.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is the role of chemistry in understanding climate change?
How have anthropogenic emissions impacted Earth’s climate change?
A comic book by Somdatta Karak, CSIR- Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, India that introduces the impacts of climate change on fragile ecosystems and how it affects the lives of people living there. This comic is inspired by a talk by Mayuresh Gangal, Nature Conservation Foundation, Bengaluru, India titled ‘Fragile Ecosystems and Climate Crisis’ as part of the Climate Change Challenge outreach program of the CCMB. This reading can be used as an introduction to the topic of climate change by primary, middle school and high school teachers. It includes discussions on
What are fragile ecosystems?
Climate Change impacts in fragile ecosystems such as Coral Islands
The Coral Reef ecosystem
Coral bleaching due to global warming
Human migration due to the impacts of climate change
Lives and livelihoods and climate refugees
Students will learn about what is climate change. They will learn about different fragile ecosystems such as coral islands, deserts, high mountains and deltas. They will further understand the impacts of climate change on coral islands and how the climate crises can lead to human migration from these fragile ecosystems.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
What is Climate Change?
Describe the coral reef ecosystem.
How is climate change causing the collapse of coral reefs in India and globally?
What are climate refugees?
About the Tool
Tool Name
Caring For Others In The Climate Crisis
Discipline
Environmental Sciences
Topic(s) in Discipline
Climate Change Overview, Introduction to Climate Change, Ecosystems, Coral Reefs
Climate Topic
Introduction to Climate Change, Climate Literacy, Climate and the Biosphere
Type of tool
Reading
Grade Level
Primary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate
Location
Global
Language
English
Translation
Developed by
Somdatta Karak
Hosted at
Climate Change Challenge page of the CSIR- Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology website published here
A teaching module by Our Climate Our Future titled ‘Agriculture and Climate Change’ that discusses the impacts of climate change on agricultural crops and products. This resource can be used as an introduction to the topic by teachers interested in teaching about food security or agriculture. The teaching module includes a classroom/laboratory activity that is based on the National Climate Assessment report.
Students will learn about the effects of climate change on agricultural produce in the U.S.A. Through discussions and interactive worksheets, they will also learn about food insecurity caused by climate change.
Use this tool to help your students find answers to:
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