What Is Climate Adaptation?

Provided by: The Nature Conservancy |Published on: March 22, 2023

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Synopsis

This animated video explains the concept of climate adaptation and the many ways nature can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The video introduces students to different ways communities can adapt to climate change, such as through ecosystem protection and resilient agriculture, and the challenges they may face.

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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: The Nature Conservancy

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The video uses engaging animations to explain concepts like extreme weather, carbon sequestration, and inequality.
The video highlights how those disproportionately impacted often have the least access to adaptation solutions.

Additional Prerequisites

Before watching the video, students should understand the causes and effects of climate change.
Students should understand the concepts of resiliency and vulnerability.
The video ends at 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

Differentiation

It is essential that students are aware that many of the most affected communities have already been adapting to climate change for years, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.
Science classes can use this video to make an emotional connection to lessons about ecosystems, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, photosynthesis, and marine ecosystems.
Although not mentioned in the video, students should also know that the most affected communities are especially in need of financing for these solutions.
This video can be used to introduce students to the concept of climate justice.
This resource can also be used in health classes during lessons about the effects of climate change on health outcomes and in social studies classes during lessons about equity.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. The Nature Conservancy has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.

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What Is Climate Adaptation?

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