Climate Solutions 101: Making It All Happen

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Grades8, 9, 10, 11, 12, APEarth and Space Sciences, Engineering

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What it is

This video from Project Drawdown discusses how to start enacting the many solutions to climate change, including the cost savings and social benefits that these solutions provide.
It discusses the implementation required and identifies solutions that span from individual actions to large-scale changes in regulations, agriculture, investments, transportation, and government expenditures.

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Positives

This is a positive video that encourages people to take action and support climate solutions.
The video can be divided up into shorter sections, if needed.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with topics such as taxes, government subsidies that support certain industries, and climate change.
The narrator says "hell" at 56 seconds into the video.
This is the final video in a series of six videos from Project Drawdown called "Climate Solutions 101."

Differentiation & Implementation

This video could be used as an exit ticket for STEM classes after learning about climate change.
There are additional links to more information for extension material.
Students could research the various solutions to climate change in more detail using this table of solutions.
Other resources about climate change solutions include this video on empowering women and girls, this StC lesson on solutions to climate change, this StC lesson on Wangari Maathai and deforestation, and this video about food waste.

From the scientist review

The resource presents immediate solutions for climate change with action plans to improve environmental sustainability and enhance economic development. The resource is recommended for teaching.

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Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, AP
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Engineering
Format: YouTube Video
Language: English
Location: Earth
Provider: Project Drawdown
Authors: Project Drawdown
Published: April 27, 2021
Last updated: July 16, 2026
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Standards alignment · D2.Eco.1.6-8 + 5 more

Core

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards

D2.Eco.1.6-8Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
D4.6.6-8Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
D2.Eco.1.9-12Analyze how incentives influence choices that may result in policies with a range of costs and benefits for different groups.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

MS-ESS3-4.Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
MS-ETS1-2.Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
HS-ETS1-3.Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.

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