The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade
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Provided by: Project Drawdown|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This 2020 comprehensive report of realistic and achievable climate solutions details the most effective ways to reduce emissions, support carbon sinks, and improve society.
- It is an update to Project Drawdown's first publication in 2017 and stresses the need for utilizing all solutions currently available.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Project Drawdown
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The introduction provides ten key concepts, an overview of the problem and solutions, graphics to support understanding, and a brief introduction to Project Drawdown.
- The introduction and summary could be used to facilitate short reading assignments or activities that focus on solutions and positive actions.
Additional Prerequisites
- The actual pages on the PDF and the pages in the page preview bar on the left side do not match. Page 1 of the actual PDF begins on page 9 of the page preview bar on the left side.
- There are three main sections in this document: Reduce Sources (pp. 14-49), Support Sinks (pp. 50-65), and Improve Society (pp. 66-69) that could be used independently or with other sections of the paper.
Differentiation
- High school students can use this resource for group projects about climate solutions or for research on the benefits of many climate solutions. Groups could choose one climate solution to research fully and then report their findings to the rest of the class or to a broader audience.
- Students can learn more about each particular solution using this table of solutions from Project Drawdown.
- Social studies classes can connect this resource to lessons about civics, human rights, gender equity, or the rights of other species to exist.
- Engineering classes could use sections of this paper to provide examples of technological innovations that provide global solutions to climate change and the many challenges faced because of it.
- Language arts classes can use this resource for advanced reading comprehension and as an example of professional scientific writing.
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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.
Scientist Reviewed
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