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Unit 3: Adaptation and Innovation

To lessen the impacts of climate change, we need to both adapt and innovate. Explore the most effective ways to respond to impacts and reduce emissions.

Lesson 3.1

Evaluating Climate Solutions
Discover how adaptation and mitigation solutions work together to highlight the need for a comprehensive approach to climate action.

Lesson 3.2

Climate Change Adaptation
Examine the most effective solutions for helping individuals and ecosystems adapt to climate change.

Lesson 3.3

The Need for Climate Innovation
We’ve made a lot of progress, but key challenges remain. Explore how we can develop innovative solutions to take on the toughest problems of climate change.

Lesson 3.4

Effective Climate Action
Investigate what needs to happen in our government, corporations, and communities to take on climate change.

Lesson 3.5

The Cost of Decarbonizing
What are the costs of climate action—or inaction? Learn how the price tag of climate changes impacts our ability to solve the problem.

Featured Materials

Podcast: Smog Cloud Silver Linings
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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.
Resilient Cities
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Resilient Cities

Explore the building adaptations that can make our cities more resilient and livable in the face of climate change.
Adaptation Solution Research
Adaptation Solution Research
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Adaptation Solution Research

Research and evaluate a climate change adaptation solution of your choice to better understand the obstacles and opportunities it presents.
The Need for Climate Innovators
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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.

Working the Levers of Climate Action
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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.

Understanding the Green Premium
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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.