CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations is releasing a comprehensive library of accurate, accessible, and authoritative teaching and learning resources on climate change and its implications for global issues and foreign policy. Explore these free resources and their accompanying teaching materials.
Explore the Topics
- Understanding the Causes of Climate Change
- How to Mitigate Climate Change
- How the World Can Adapt to Climate Impacts
- What Is Geoengineering?
- Climate Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles
- Energy Challenges – coming soon
As a part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ commitment to addressing climate change, CFR Education is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Coursera to create a three-course specialization on climate change. Coming in 2025!
Full Library of Climate Resources
Understanding the Causes of Climate Change
How to Mitigate Climate Change
How the World Can Adapt to Climate Impacts
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Protecting Global Food and Water Supplies in a Warming World
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Extreme Weather & Disaster Response – coming soon
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Sea Level Rise – coming soon
Climate Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles
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How Are International Agreements Helping Fight Global Warming?
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What Are Market-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change?
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How Is the Paris Agreement Supposed to Work? – coming soon
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Federal vs. Local Policy Arenas – coming soon
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Legal Remedies – coming soon
Energy Challenges - coming soon
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How Renewables Can Boost a Country’s Energy Security (video)
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How Earth’s Minerals Are Helping the World Meet Its Climate Goals – coming soon
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Transmission – coming soon
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How Permitting Reform Can Speed Up the Clean Energy Transition – coming soon
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Why We Need to Treat Electricity Like a Limited Resource – coming soon
Geoengineering
Teaching Resources
High School
- High School Essay & Discussion Questions covering causes of climate change, mitigation, climate impacts and adaptations, energy challenges, policy levers, geoengineering and climate videos
- Climate Change: Introduction (Lesson Plan)
- Climate Change: Coffee and Costs (Lesson Plan)
- Climate Change: Mitigation (Lesson Plan)
Higher Education
- Higher Education Essay & Discussion Questions covering causes of climate change, mitigation, climate impacts and adaptations, energy challenges, policy levers, geoengineering and climate videos
- Create A Mitigation Awareness Video (Activity)
- Climate Prompts: Fact or Fiction? (Activity)
- Solar Geoengineering Mini Simulation Activity
Climate Change Simulations
- Hurricane in the Caribbean
- Solar Geoengineering
- Stopping Deforestation in the Amazon
- U.S. Arctic Policy
- Should the United States Ratify the Law of the Sea?
- Global Climate Change Policy (National Security Council)
- Global Climate Change Policy (UN Security Council)
Explore Library of Climate Events
- Engaging Students in Interdisciplinary Climate Education (Recording on edWeb, November, 2024)
- Higher Ed Webinar: Teaching Climate Change (Recording on CFR Education, November, 2024)
- Teaching Climate Change Across Disciplines in 2025 (SXSW EDU, March 2025)
- Climate Change: What Your Students Want to Know AND What They Can Do About It (Recording on Share My Lesson, March 2024)
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CFR Education from the Council on Foreign Relations aims to close the global literacy gap in our country by providing accessible, accurate, and authoritative resources that build the knowledge, skills, and perspective middle, high school, and higher education students need to understand and engage with today’s most pressing global issues.