Climate & Energy
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Climate Change Inequality
In this free resource, explore how climate change disproportionately affects certain communities and could drastically increase global inequality.
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The Sustainable Development Goals
In this free SDG resource, learn about the formation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and review the opportunities and challenges for meeting them.
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The Paris Agreement
What is the Paris Agreement? In this free resource, learn what actions countries are taking to address the global threat of climate change.
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What Is Climate Change?
In this educational video, learn why the climate is changing, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.
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How the Paris Agreement Helps Stop Climate Change
The Paris Agreement offers the world a pathway for addressing climate change, but challenges persist.
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How Renewables Can Boost a Country's Energy Security
Climate change poses energy security challenges, but building more renewable sources and taking other steps can help strengthen supply and lower risks.
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Protecting Global Food and Water Supplies in a Warming World
Discover how climate change is diminishing global food and water security, and how the world can adapt to those vital resource challenges.
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How Climate Change Reduces Biodiversity
Climate Change is straining the earth’s ecosystems. Learn how humans can adapt to protect them.
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How to Address the Economic Costs of Climate Change
Climate change–related weather events will destroy bridges, roads, homes, and even power plants—unless those structures become more resilient.
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How Climate Change Threatens National Security
The effects of global warming are creating various security threats. Governments can take certain measures to adapt to those increasing risks.
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Climate Change Threatens to Displace Many People
Extreme weather and climate change effects could drive millions of people to migrate. Government leaders can take steps to address those flows of people and prepare the communities at their destinations.
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How Humans Cause Climate Change
Every aspect of modern life carries hidden environmental costs. Recognizing the human-driven causes of climate change can help build a more sustainable future.
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How Climate Change Can Get Even Worse
Climate change can amplify itself through feedback loops. It can also trigger catastrophic “tipping points.”
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What Are Market-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change?
Learn how policymakers can design incentives to motivate climate action.
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How to Lower Industry-Sector Emissions
Industrial emissions pose big challenges for the climate. Innovative industrial solutions can make a difference.
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How to Lower Transportation-Sector Emissions
The ways we move around the world are making it hotter. Electric vehicles and other innovations offer climate change solutions.
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How To Lower Energy-Sector Emissions
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy can help mitigate climate change.
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How to Lower Buildings-Sector Emissions
The buildings we live in cause emissions. Changing our edifices can set up a more sustainable future.
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How to Lower Agriculture and Land-Use Emissions
Agriculture is warming the planet. Changing how we farm and manage land can decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
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What Is Geoengineering?
Learn more about the promises and perils of artificially manipulating the environment to combat climate change.
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How Are International Agreements Helping Fight Global Warming?
Explore the challenges facing international cooperation and the major treaties where the world has agreed to work together.
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What Is a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism?
Learn how governments can prevent international carbon leakage from their climate mitigation policies.
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The Inflation Reduction Act
What is the IRA? In this free resource, learn what the United States' largest-ever climate change legislation does.
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Why Is The Free Flow of Oil Important?
Why does the price of oil change so much? Learn how crude oil affects the global economy and the potential for economic development, and how fluctuating prices can contribute to crises.
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How Can AI Combat Climate Change?
In this free climate change resource, learn how AI is helping countries reduce carbon emissions, but some innovations could ultimately contribute to a warming planet.
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How Do Governments Combat Climate Change?
In this free resource, explore seven ways countries are responding to a changing environment, from cap and trade policies to clean energy standards.
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What Is Water Scarcity?
Is there a global water crisis? In this free resource, learn how climate change is causing water scarcity to worsen worldwide.
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Sources of Energy: A Comparison
Learn how turning toward cleaner energy sources means factoring in economic and energy needs alongside environmental ones.
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The Greenhouse Effect
How do greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming? Learn why the world is getting warmer in this free climate change resource.
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Why Scientists Are Watching Greenland
In this free climate change resource, learn why melting ice in Greenland is causing global sea level rise.
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Climate Change and the Coffee Industry
In this educational video, learn how climate change's effects on agriculture can have serious economic consequences for the world.
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Who Releases the Most Greenhouse Gases?
Learn how the world measures greenhouse gas emissions and how different approaches imply different levels of responsibility.
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Who Is Responsible for Climate Change?
Why do developed and developing countries disagree about who is responsible for climate change? Explore the history of industrialization and its impacts on climate in this video.
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Climate Change Adaptations
Explore how eleven countries are adapting to the effects of climate change in this free resource.
Learning Journeys
A learning journey is a student facing, curated collection of resources that explore a topic from a specific perspective.
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How to Mitigate Climate Change
Learn how the world can lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the threat from climate change.
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Climate Change: Actions
Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the various methods being used to address climate change.
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Climate Change: Effects
Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the effects of climate change on communities around the world.
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Climate Change: Policy
Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the debates about various policies to combat climate change.
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Climate Change: Introduction
Explore this collection of learning resources to understand how climate change poses an extraordinary threat to the planet and its inhabitants.