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Job Function Action Guides

Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: September 23, 2024

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Synopsis

This resource includes twelve guides for corporate professionals of various categories to take climate action at work.
Students will learn how climate change relates to each profession, discover steps professionals can take to leverage their jobs to help fight the climate crisis, and explore some case studies of real professionals who have incorporated these ideas.

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Subjects: Career Skills

Authors: Project Drawdown

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Teaching Materials

Positives

There is a wealth of information, so each student should be able to find a guide they connect to.
Each guide includes an Action Checklist that is one page and easy to read.

Prerequisites

Students should understand climate change, its causes, impacts, and possible solutions.
Teachers may want to show students Project Drawdown's Table of Solutions to familiarize them with climate solutions.
To access the Climate Action Checklists, teachers and students will have to enter some information every time. Teachers may want to download these twelve PDFs ahead of time.

Differentiation & Implementation

Using the guides as inspiration, students can create a guide to inform others how to incorporate climate-centered considerations into their role as students.
If teachers know professionals that are taking a climate initiative at work, they can invite them to talk about what they do.
Students can create infographics to summarize their learning and inform local businesses and professionals about how they can make their job a climate job.
Older students creating career plans can include what they will do to take climate action in their careers.

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About the Partner Provider

Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.

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