Climate Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles
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Provided by: Council on Foreign Relations|Published on: January 9, 2025
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Synopsis
- In this collection of articles, students will read about the economic and environmental implications of government policies to mitigate climate change.
- Students will learn about examples of international policy collaborations, different options for climate policy, and the considerations for equity and fairness in public policies.
- Students will learn about the Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, and Paris Agreement and market-based strategies such as subsidies, carbon tax, and cap-and-trade systems.
Subjects: Economics, Civics, History
Authors: CFR Education
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource addresses the importance of equity and fairness, which is important for students to consider.
- The resource does a great job of explaining the different policies and the implications for each of them.
Prerequisites
- Students should understand the causes and impacts of climate change.
- It may benefit students to have some economic and policy terms defined, such as subsidy, loan, grant, and others.
Differentiation & Implementation
- After reading the articles, students can create a timeline of worldwide collaboration events and environmental policies, adding future dates with climate policies they hope for.
- To demonstrate their understanding of mitigation policies, students can write about the positives and negatives of carbon tax, subsidies, cap-and-trade systems, and carbon border adjustment mechanisms for reducing emissions.
- These articles primarily covered mitigation costs and policies. After reading the articles, students can research adaptation costs and implementations. The resource CFR Education: Climate Change Adaptations can help students explore some examples of adaptations.
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