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Provided by: OER Project |Published on: August 21, 2025
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Synopsis
In this module from the OER Project: Climate, students will evaluate the role governments have in implementing decarbonization strategies.
Students will evaluate the national and local governments as policy makers and major consumers, understanding different ways they can address climate change.
This is one of many lessons in the online Climate course by OER Project.
The reading in this module contains a sidebar to conveniently define content-specific terms.
The questions and activities in this module are thought-provoking and allow for variation in students' answers.
Prerequisites
Teachers may need to define some terms for students, such as green premium, grant, and capital.
To access related materials, including a teacher guide, teachers will need to create a free account.
Differentiation & Implementation
To have the video pause and ask questions, students can mark the box below the video.
To make connections to language arts, students can write persuasive letters to their representatives, calling on them to implement the decarbonization solution they wrote about in their Implementation Plan.
Teachers can connect this lesson to the Sustainable Development Goals by asking students to consider what else governments can do to address more of the goals. Alternatively or additionally, students can consider how decarbonization strategies may help to address more of the goals in addition to Goal 13, Climate Action.
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