Subject guide
Government-led adaptation and mitigation strategies for global climate change:
Government-led adaptation and mitigation strategies for global climate change:
- global geopolitical efforts, recognizing that the source/s of greenhouse gas emissions may be spatially distant from the countries most impacted
- carbon emissions offsetting and trading
- technology, including geo-engineering
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Key terms: Adaption and Mitigation
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1. What the Newspapers say...TOK Link
Form a group of four. Each person should read one article below and be ready to feedback to the other members of your group:
Watch the video. How could this work as a RLS? What knowledge questions could be explored?
Form a group of four. Each person should read one article below and be ready to feedback to the other members of your group:
- What is the message of the article? What was the agenda of the writer?
- What first order and second order knowledge questions does it suggest to you?
- Explore these knowledge questions briefly with your group members.
Watch the video. How could this work as a RLS? What knowledge questions could be explored?
2. Climate treaties and agreements
Climate change conference task
Person 1 - The Kyoto Protocol 1997
Person 2 - The Paris Agreement 2015
Use the website below and your textbook to create revision resource which includes all of the following:
1 - Publicity photo from the event with leaders involved
2 - Objectives
3 - Who signed up? Who didn't?
4 - Successes & Failures (for the Paris agreement you should mention recent developments from Trump/USA)
Person 1 - The Kyoto Protocol 1997
Person 2 - The Paris Agreement 2015
Use the website below and your textbook to create revision resource which includes all of the following:
1 - Publicity photo from the event with leaders involved
2 - Objectives
3 - Who signed up? Who didn't?
4 - Successes & Failures (for the Paris agreement you should mention recent developments from Trump/USA)
3. Technology including geo-engineering
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Answer these questions using the 'Hard talk video' to the left:
•What is geo-engineering? •What is the issue with carbon removal according to the Royal Society report? •How far are we away from clean and affordable carbon capture? •What is most likely with carbon storage? •How does solar radiation management work? •What would be the advantages of solar radiation management? •To what extent could solar radiation management create geo-political problems? •How clear is the link between solar radiation management and decreased rainfall in some regions of the world? •How do Nature Geoscience see the impact on rainfall? |
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| technological_fixes.pdf |
Types of technology:
A. Carbon dioxide removal
-Afforestation/ deforestation
-Biochar
-Geosequestration
-Artificial trees
- Desert Greening
- Green buildings/ Algae covered buildings
- GM crops
-Ocean Fertilization
B. Solar reflection
-Micro-bubbles in sea water
-Brightening clouds
- Stratospheric aerosols/sulphur dioxide
- Orbiting solar mirrors
-Increasing albedo
C. Reactive geo-engineering approaches
-Sea walls (including the creation of coral seawalls in low lying atolls)
- Raising land levels in areas threatened by sea level rise and floating islands
Research at least 1 technology from each section of technologies that have been developed to combat the impacts of climate change.
Start with the textbook. You could also use the links below
A. Carbon dioxide removal
-Afforestation/ deforestation
-Biochar
-Geosequestration
-Artificial trees
- Desert Greening
- Green buildings/ Algae covered buildings
- GM crops
-Ocean Fertilization
B. Solar reflection
-Micro-bubbles in sea water
-Brightening clouds
- Stratospheric aerosols/sulphur dioxide
- Orbiting solar mirrors
-Increasing albedo
C. Reactive geo-engineering approaches
-Sea walls (including the creation of coral seawalls in low lying atolls)
- Raising land levels in areas threatened by sea level rise and floating islands
Research at least 1 technology from each section of technologies that have been developed to combat the impacts of climate change.
- The name of the approach
- An outline of how the approach would work and which aspect of climate change it would tackle and how
- The possible costs and benefits of the approach
- Your considered opinion on the potential usefulness of the approach and of geoengineering in general as an approach to tackling climate change
- Visuals which support what you say - this might include annotated photos, diagrams.
Start with the textbook. You could also use the links below
Copenhagen Water Ways
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Yokohama Stadium
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Mexico Forestry system
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France Green Roofs
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4. Carbon emissions off-setting and trading
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Use the materials above to answer the following questions:
- What is carbon trading and what is carbon offsetting? What is the difference between them?
- What are the possible benefits and problems of each?
Reducing Emissions from from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REED)
•Processes and Possibilities - How does UN REDD Work?
•Using the following links answer the following questions
•How does the UN REDD Programme incentivize?
•How is it funded?
•How many national projects are involved and where are they located?
•How do REDD projects impact indigenous groups?
•Processes and Possibilities - How does UN REDD Work?
•Using the following links answer the following questions
•How does the UN REDD Programme incentivize?
•How is it funded?
•How many national projects are involved and where are they located?
•How do REDD projects impact indigenous groups?
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The source/s of greenhouse gas emissions may be spatially distant from the countries most impacted