The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade

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.