Adaptation and Innovation

Unit 3: Adaptation and Innovation

Teacher Resources

To lessen the impacts of climate change, we need to both adapt and innovate. How can we leverage innovation and targeted action to effectively and equitably respond to climate change?

Lesson 3.1

Evaluating Climate Solutions

There are many different ways we can take action to confront climate change. Understanding the differences between adaptation and mitigation solutions will help you understand the need for a comprehensive approach.

Lesson 3.2

Climate Change Adaptation

To understand how we can adapt to a planet that is already getting warmer, you’ll evaluate which adaptation solutions will make the biggest difference in reducing the impacts of climate change.

Lesson 3.3

The Need for Climate Innovation

While positive trends have added up to make a real difference, the solutions we have aren’t enough to solve all our problems. We’re going to need even more innovation to develop the tools we need to reach our climate goals.

Lesson 3.4

Effective Climate Action

Understanding the different levers of climate action will help us effectively implement climate solutions. Explore the different ways individuals, businesses, and government can work to amplify the impact of our actions.

Lesson 3.5

The Green Premium

Solving climate change will be hard, and it will be expensive. We to need to find innovative ways to overcome the obstacles presented by the green premium, or the additional expense for a low- or zero-carbon alternative.

Featured Materials

Video

Podcast: Smog Cloud Silver Linings

Are there some climate change solutions that create more problems than answers? This Radiolab podcast explores the problem of geoengineering and wrestles with the question of what we should be doing about climate change and what we should even be talking about.

Infographic

Resilient Cities

We need to adapt our cities to be more resilient in the face of climate change, and one place to start is with our buildings. This infographic explores building adaptations that can make our cities more resilient and livable.

Activity

Adaptation Solution Research

Research and evaluate a climate change adaptation solution of your choice. By digging into a single strategy, you’ll be better equipped to assess and understand the value of adaptation solutions you encounter in the future.

Video

The Need for Climate Innovators

We need innovators from a wide range of backgrounds to solve the climate problem. Explore the different ways experts from many fields are working together to make climate solutions a reality, which will help you think about the different paths you could take to become a climate innovator.

Article

Working the Levers of Climate Action

With a problem as complex and global as climate change, effectively implementing climate action isn’t always easy. We’ll think about how we implement solutions along with the levers of action (individual, business, and government) that can help us achieve our goals.

Article

Understanding the Green Premium

Green premiums make climate-friendly choices costly—but fossil fuels have their own hidden costs, too. We’ll need to reduce green premiums through continued to innovation to make climate-friendly options more accessible and widespread.

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Unit 3: Adaptation and Innovation