Risk, Resilience, and Decision-making
Grades9, 10, 11, 12, APEconomics, Geography
What it is
This four-part video series explains some issues faced by businesses due to climate change.
The series corrects the long-held but now-failed assumption of climate stability, connecting business, insurance markets, human health, and climate adaptation.
The four videos cover impacts on agriculture, architecture, insurance, and labor, each running from four to six minutes.
Teaching tips
Prerequisites:
Ensure students are familiar with climate change and some of its impacts on weather and seasonal changes.
Classroom Implementation:
Use the first video, “Business Assumptions in a Changing Climate,” in business, agriculture, and geography classes to demonstrate the role of climate change in the agricultural industry.
These videos can enhance discussions in business and economics classes to discuss how industry and the economy are impacted by climate change.
Give each group an area of focus- agriculture, architecture, insurance, or labor- to use the video as a starting point for a research project investigating the influences of climate change on their given area and possible solutions.
Extensions:
Challenge students to propose a product as a solution to a problem that businesses face in a changing climate.
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