Assignment Task: Prepare a report that models different global policy approaches to climate change and recommendations for keeping climate change in check, and then create an infographic or a presentation for targeted audiences.
Follow these steps to complete Part 1:
Step 1: Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed solutions to reducing your carbon footprint.
- What are suggested actions you can take to reduce your carbon footprint based on your results?
- Does the cost of going green limit your ability to reduce your carbon footprint?
Step 2: Compare and contrast existing solutions, conclusions, or approaches to reducing your carbon footprint.
- Locate the "free" options and see how simple changes can reduce your carbon footprint.
- Locate the "$" options and see how these approaches can reduce your carbon footprint.
- Compare the "free" and "$" options. Which do you see as most beneficial and why? Are any of the "$" options feasible?
Step 3: Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed scenarios for reducing global climate change.
- We can start saving the energy from our home itself, and later can implement these things on a much wider scale at the society level, then at the city level, then district level, and finally at the country level and global level. Consider how your individual changes can impact global climate change efforts.
Step 4: Summarize the most effective solution to global climate change.
- Use the resources provided in the course text, websites, and/or articles to help summarize the most effective solutions.
Follow these steps to complete Part 2:
Step 5: Highlights key results from your modeling of different global policy approaches to climate change.
- Discuss key global policy approaches and provide insights on how they are critical to reducing global climate change.
- Identify global policies in place that you believe are most beneficial to global climate change reduction.
Step 6: Describe ways to address climate change issues and environmental issues at the individual level.
- Use your analysis earlier where you constructed a proposed solution to reduce carbon footprint and affect global climate change. What individual changes can you make that can address climate change and environmental issues?
- Provide reasons to persuade your readers that your proposed solution will achieve the desired environmental change.
- Describe 3-5 strategies to address climate change and environmental issues at the global level. For example, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, relying on clean energy technologies, or replacing petroleum and diesel vehicles with electric and hydrogen fuel vehicles.