Drawdown Lift

Positives

• Students can learn about the program through both text and video.
• There are links to videos, webinars, podcasts, articles, and other Project Drawdown publications that students can explore to learn more.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the causes, effects, and solutions to climate change.
• The Project Drawdown Climate-Poverty Connections Report details the specific solutions that both lessen climate change and poverty.

Differentiation

• Students can discuss the issues of injustice that connect climate change and poverty, such as the disproportionate impact climate change has on people living in extreme poverty, even though they contribute very little to global emissions.
• Economics classes can research methods for low-carbon economic growth and the financial barriers to implementation.
• Geography classes can explore the regions of interest for this initiative, Africa and South Asia, and discuss the specific challenges of these areas and why they were targeted.
• Civics classes can discuss how developed countries can best support developing countries in supporting equality, reducing poverty, and slowing climate change.