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Unit 4: Decarbonization

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What are the primary challenges of and key solutions to decarbonization and how can we effectively support these solutions both now and in the future?

Lesson 4.1

The Grand Challenges
Each year, humanity releases 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere. This lesson explores each of the Grand Challenges, the five primary economic sectors responsible for releasing carbon emissions.

Lesson 4.2

Decarbonization Solutions
There are many solutions to reduce emissions in the Grand Challenges, but not all solutions are equal. Explore how we can evaluate solutions to maximize their impact and what we can do to get them into widespread use.

Lesson 4.3

Enacting Climate Solutions
Now that we understand the main sources of carbon emissions and promising solutions to decarbonization, you’ll consider the best strategies we can use to implement these solutions.

Lesson 4.4

Decarbonization Goals
Climate goals can be implemented at all levels of government. In this lesson, you’ll explore the importance of climate goals and how they work in tandem with government policy to lead to meaningful decarbonization action.

Lesson 4.5

A Climate Future
While it can sometimes feel abstract, climate change is changing the ways we live our everyday lives. Explore how climate change and our response to it will impact our health, our jobs, and our complex human systems.

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Emissions Image Sort
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Emissions Image Sort

Where do greenhouse gas emissions come from? Sort images of greenhouse gas emissions into different categories to prepare you to learn more about the sources of these emissions.

The Grand Challenges
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The Grand Challenges

The Grand Challenges are the five main economic sectors responsible for carbon emissions. Understanding where emissions come from is essential to being able to take action to reduce them.

Can We Make Electricity Without Fossil Fuels? Crash Course Climate & Energy #3
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Can We Make Electricity Without Fossil Fuels? Crash Course Climate & Energy #3

Electricity makes our modern lives possible—but can we make electricity without fossil fuels? This video explores how we might decarbonize the electricity supply.

Decarbonization Goals
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Decarbonization Goals

To get to net zero, we will need clearly set, ambitious goals at all levels, from the international to local level. Each set of goals will play an important role in getting us to zero through coordinating efforts and adapting to local conditions and realities.

Climate Expert Exploration
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Climate Expert Exploration

Consider your interests and explore the work of different climate experts that will help us combat climate change. We will need experts across a range of careers if we are to achieve our climate goals.

Envisioning a Climate Future
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Envisioning a Climate Future

Explore the ways our health, our jobs, and the systems we use to manage a complex world will shift as climate change continues to impact our future and what we can do to create the future we want to inhabit.

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