Global Climate Policy Debates & Solution Brainstorm Worksheets

Provide your advanced high school students with this 42-page climate policy curriculum that focuses on advanced dialectical analysis rather than simplified activism. This curriculum will encourage active learning for your students by transforming passive learning into a deep intellectual engagement through multi-perspective debate, policy creation, and ethical reasoning.

Students will explore:

The transition from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement and the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR)

Carbon pricing mechanisms (Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade), as well as the Social Cost of Carbon

The ethics of geoengineering (Stratospheric Aerosol Injection [SAI], moral hazard, risks associated with unilateral use of SAI)

Environmental justice, climate debt, and the Cobalt Paradox in developing countries

Youth climate lawsuits, climate refugees and international law, methane agricultural policies, financing urban adaptation, and accountability for greenwashing

Includes 10 high-level student worksheets with conceptual fill-in-the-blank (using a unique 7-underscore system), real-world case studies and hypothetical case studies, critical debate prompts, and challenging policy creation assignments for students. Teacher answer keys, implementation guides, visual diagrams (Climate Policy Trilemma, Stakeholder Matrix, and Carbon Pricing Mind Map), and differentiation strategies are also included.

Ideal for AP Environmental Science, AP Government, AP Economics, IB Global Politics, Honors Humanities, and Model UN/debate programs. Encourages real critical thinking, systems analysis, and nuanced understanding of the trade-offs between enhancing developing countries.

The Key Reasons Why Parents and Schools Appreciate It:

Facilitates unbiased critical thinking instead of dogmatic, ideologically-based, practical-thinking-by-proxy students making arguments for and against competing choices (e.g., Growth vs. Fossil-Fuel Abolition; Independent Sovereign Nation vs. World Government; Technology as Hope or as a Curse).

Extensive preparation for taking Advanced Placement tests; writing college level essays, debating other humans, as well as the development of well-thought-out arguments using established policies, and ethical reasoning based on sound ethical reasoning standards.

A balanced view of the world; an honest consideration of the challenges facing developing nations, "Just Transition", climate liabilities, and the risk of neo-colonial influence in creating green supply chains.

Teacher support that is broad in scope and purpose; includes teacher-oriented teacher guides, "look-for" answers for the teachers, pacing guides and strategies for differentiating instruction, visual aids to illustrate concepts, and techniques for managing classroom conversations.

An exceedingly entertaining way to teach about Climate Change, as well as Science, by creating opportunities for students to compete with each other on an intellectual level, as opposed to being preached at.

Primary Audience & Classes: 9-12 (Secondary School) Advanced Students Advanced Placement Environmental Science Advanced Placement U.S. Government/Comparative Government Advanced Placement Macroeconomics/Microeconomics (on Carbon Pricing) IB Diploma Programme: Global Politics, Environmental Systems/Societies (ESS), and Economics Advanced Placement/honors world/history/contemporary issues Model United Nations, Debate and Mock Trial Teams Future Advanced 10-graders: Gifted/Track 11/12 grades -- Advanced Placement courses.

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