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Subject guide
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Government-led adaptation and mitigation strategies for global climate change:
  • global geopolitical efforts, recognizing that the source/s of greenhouse gas emissions may be spatially distant from the countries most impacted
  • carbon emissions offsetting and trading
  • technology, including geo-engineering
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Key terms: Adaption and Mitigation

1. What the Newspapers say...TOK Link

Form a group of four. Each person should read one article below and be ready to feedback to the other members of your group:
  1. What is the message of the article? What was the agenda of the writer?
  2. What first order and second order knowledge questions does it suggest to you? 
  3. Explore these knowledge questions briefly with your group members.

Watch the video. How could this work as a RLS? What knowledge questions could be explored?

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New York Times: How Republicans Think About Climate Change
New York Times: Fighting Climate Change? We’re Not Even Landing a Punch
The Conversation: Why I’ll talk politics with climate change deniers – but not science
Greenpeace: Fossil Fuel Funding of 2016 Presidential Candidates

2. Climate treaties and agreements

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Climate change conference task 

Person 1 - The Kyoto Protocol 1997
Person 2 - The Paris Agreement 2015

Use the website below and your textbook to create revision resource  which includes all of the following:
1 - Publicity photo from the event with leaders involved 
2 - Objectives 
3 - Who signed up? Who didn't? 
4 - Successes & Failures (for the Paris agreement you should mention recent developments from Trump/USA)
UN Treaties site
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3. Technology including geo-engineering
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Answer these questions using the 'Hard talk video' to the left:
•What is geo-engineering? 
•What is the issue with carbon removal according to the Royal Society report? 
•How far are we away from clean and affordable carbon capture? 
•What is most likely with carbon storage? 
•How does solar radiation management work?
•What would be the advantages of solar radiation management? 
•To what extent could solar radiation management create geo-political problems? 
•How clear is the link between solar radiation management and decreased rainfall in some regions of the world? 
•How do Nature Geoscience see the impact on rainfall?

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Types of technology: 
A. Carbon dioxide removal
-Afforestation/ deforestation
-Biochar
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Geosequestration
-Artificial trees
- Desert Greening
- Green buildings/ Algae covered buildings

- GM crops

-Ocean Fertilization 

B. Solar reflection
-Micro-bubbles in sea water
-Brightening clouds
- Stratospheric aerosols/sulphur dioxide
- Orbiting solar mirrors
-Increasing albedo


C. Reactive geo-engineering approaches
-Sea walls (including the creation of coral seawalls in low lying atolls)
- Raising land levels in areas threatened by sea level rise and floating islands

Research at least 1 technology from each section of technologies that have been developed to combat the impacts of climate change. 
  • The name of the approach
  • An outline of how the approach would work and which aspect of climate change it would tackle and how
  • The possible costs and benefits of the approach
  • Your considered opinion on the potential usefulness of the approach and of geoengineering in general as an approach to tackling climate change
  • Visuals which support what you say - this might include annotated photos, diagrams.
Resources to use: 
Start with the textbook. You could also use the links below 
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Copenhagen Water Ways
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Yokohama Stadium
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Mexico Forestry system
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France Green Roofs
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4. Carbon emissions off-setting and trading
Use the materials above to answer the following questions:
  1. What is carbon trading and what is carbon offsetting? What is the difference between them?
  2. What are the possible benefits and problems of each?
Reducing Emissions from from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REED)
•Processes and Possibilities - How does UN REDD Work?
•Using the following links answer the following questions
•How does the UN REDD Programme incentivize?
•How is it funded?
•How many national projects are involved and where are they located?
•How do REDD projects impact indigenous groups?

The source/s of greenhouse gas emissions may be spatially distant from the countries most impacted
Inequality Explained: 7 ways climate change and inequality are connected
 c) Now read the article on the left.
  1. Summarise the seven points made in no more than 250 words.
  2. Define social justice. To what extent is climate change an issue of social justice?
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        • What is the problem with plastic?
        • How can we manage climate change?
        • Mitigation and adaptation strategies
        • Protest as a means of change
        • Change maker project
        • Y8: Model United Nations
    • Year 7 Humanities >
      • Year 7 Geography >
        • Biomes
        • Why do the impacts of tectonic hazards vary?
        • Topic 3: Microclimate Investigation
        • Settlement Studies
        • Geography in the news
      • Year 7 History >
        • 1. The Ancient World >
          • a. Prehistoric Life >
            • Middle School History
          • b. Egypt or Rome? >
            • Historical Enquiry - Comparing Ancient Societies
            • Ancient Egypt
            • Ancient Rome
          • Assessment
        • 2. The Medieval World >
          • "Muck and Misery" Investigation
          • Medieval Guidebook Assessment
          • Medieval Baghdad
        • 3. The American West >
          • Native American Culture
          • The First Settlers
          • Pioneers
          • Mormons
          • Homesteaders
          • Cowboys and cow towns
          • The Plains Wars
          • Impact of settlement on the Native Americans
          • Assessment
        • 4. The Industrial World
        • 5. Civil Rights
        • 6. The Significance of the Lives of Ordinary People
        • 7. Year 7 Assessments
        • 8 . Digital Library
  • HS Geography
    • IB Geography >
      • Introduction to IB Geography
      • Paper 1- Geographic Themes >
        • Urban Environments >
          • Urban sections 1-3
          • Sustainable Cities
        • Leisure, sport and Tourism >
          • Introduction to Leisure, sport and tourism
          • A global sporting event- The Olympics
          • Managing Rural Tourism Hotspots
          • Managing urban tourism hotspots
          • Tourism as a development strategy
          • Sustainable tourism
          • Variations in Sphere of Influence
          • The impact of Rural festivals
        • Geophysical Hazards >
          • Earthquakes
          • Volcanoes
          • Landslides
      • Paper 2: Geographic perspectives >
        • Changing populations >
          • Population density
          • Processes of population change >
            • Megacities
            • Forced migration
          • Possibilities of population change >
            • Aging population
            • Population policies
            • Gender Equality
            • Human trafficking
            • Demographic dividend
          • Debate: Should the UN curb population growth?
        • Global Climate - Vulnerability and Resilience >
          • The causes of global climate change
          • Impacts of climate change
          • ​Disparities in exposure to climate change risk and vulnerability
          • GOVERNMENT LED ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES
          • Civil society and corporate strategies to address climate change
        • Global resource consumption and security >
          • Global trends in consumption >
            • GLOBAL AND REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL PROGRESS TOWARDS POVERTY REDUCTION.
            • Measuring trends in global consumption
            • Patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of water
            • Global patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of land/food
            • Global patterns and trends in the availability and consumption of energy
          • Nexus thinking >
            • Two countries with contrasting levels of resource security...
            • Waste disposal and recycling
          • Resource Stewardship >
            • Divergent thinking about population and resource consumption trends
            • The circular economy
        • Infographics
      • Paper 3: Global Interactions >
        • Power, place and networks >
          • Global networks and flows
          • Global Interactions & Global Power
          • Human and physical influences on global interactions
        • HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & DIVERSITY >
          • Development opportunities
          • Changing cultures and identities
          • Cultural Hybridity
          • Local responses to global interactions
        • Environmental risks
        • Geopolitical and economic risks
      • IB Revision- mocks 2021
      • IB Revision
      • Internal Assessment
      • Extended Essay in Geography
    • IGCSE Geography >
      • Population and Settlement >
        • Population >
          • Why is population growing?
          • Population density and distribution
          • Over and Under population
          • Dependent populations
          • Population policy: One Child policy China
          • HIV and AIDs
          • Migration
          • Population revision
          • Debate: Should the UN curb population growth?
        • Settlement >
          • Settlement and service provision
          • Urbanisation
      • Natural Environment >
        • Earthquakes and Volcanoes >
          • Plate tectonics
          • Case study of a volcano: Montserrat
          • Haiti Earthquake
          • Why do people live in hazardous areas?
          • Tectonics revision
          • REVISION- WHAT HAPPENS AT TECTONIC PLATES?
        • Rivers >
          • Hydrological characteristics and processes
          • River Landforms
          • Benefits and threats of rivers
          • Management of rivers: Hard and Soft engineering
          • Rivers revison
        • Coasts >
          • Coastal processes
          • Coastal management
          • Different coastal environments
          • Mangroves
          • Hurricanes- cyclone Alia, Bangladesh
          • Hurricanes- Hurricane Harvey
          • Coasts revision
          • Coastal skills
        • Weather and Climate >
          • Weather measurements
          • The Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem
          • Deserts
          • Climate and vegetation revsion
      • Economic Development >
        • 3.1 Development
        • Industry
        • Globalisation
        • Food production
        • Water
        • Tourism
        • Energy
        • Environmental risks of economic development
        • economic development revision
      • Geographical Enquiry
      • Geographical Skills
      • IGCSE Revision
      • Year 11 Geography mock revision: Jan 2021 >
        • Paper 2: Geographical Skills
        • Paper 4: Fieldwork paper
        • Paper 1: Knowledge paper
  • HS Economics
    • IB ECONOMICS TEACHER PAGES >
      • Activity Styles
    • Year 10 >
      • 1.0 THE BASIC ECONOMIC PROBLEM
      • 2.0 HOW MARKETS WORK AND MARKET FAILURE
      • 3.0 THE INDIVIDUAL AS PRODUCER, CONSUMER AND BORROWER >
        • 3.3 Workers
        • 3.4 Firms
        • 3.5 Small firms and causes and forms of the growth of firms
        • 3.6 Economies and diseconomies of scale
        • 3.7 Firms costs, revenues and objectives
        • 3.8 Firms and Production
        • 3.9.5 Monopoly Markets
      • REVISION OF UNITS 1, 2 AND 3
      • SUMMER LEARNING
    • Year 11 >
      • 4.0 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN AN ECONOMY >
        • 4.1 Introduction to Macroeconomics
        • 4.1.1 The Role of Government
        • 4.2.1 Macroeconomic Aims of Government
        • 4.2.3 Economic Growth
        • 4.7 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
        • 4.8 INFLATION
        • 4.4.0 FISCAL POLICY
        • 4.4.1 MONETARY POLICY
        • 4.1.2 SUPPLY-SIDE POLICIES AND MACROECONOMICS REVISION
      • 5.0 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT >
        • Top Trumps: Economic Development
        • 5.1 DIFFERENCES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
        • 5.3.1 POVERTY
        • 5.3 POPULATION
      • 6.0 INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
      • iGCSE Economics Revision Sessions - May 23rd to June 1st
      • Revision Support
    • Year 12 >
      • 1. Introduction to Economics
      • 2. Microeconomics >
        • 2.A. COMPETITIVE MARKETS: DEMAND AND SUPPLY >
          • HL Demand FE 2022
        • 2.B.ELASTICITIES
        • 2.C.GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION >
          • HL 2020 Government intervention
        • 2.D.MARKET FAILURE >
          • To What Extent Does the American Health Care Market Represent a Market Failure?
        • 2.E.THE THEORY OF THE FIRM 1: PRODUCTION, COSTS, REVENUES, AND PROFIT HL
        • 2.F.THE THEORY OF THE FIRM II: MARKET STRUCTURES HL
        • Real World Examples: Theory of the Firm
      • 3. Macroeconomics >
        • 2A. THE LEVEL OF OVERALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
        • 2B. AGGREGATE DEMAND
        • 2C. AGGREGATE SUPPLY
        • THE MULTIPLIER (HL)
        • INFLATION
        • LOW UNEMPLOYMENT
        • EQUITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
        • ECONOMIC GROWTH
        • OVERVIEW OF DEMAND-SIDE AND SUPPLY-SIDE POLICIES
        • FISCAL POLICY
        • MONETARY POLICY
        • SUPPLY-SIDE POLICIES
      • Exam Papers
      • IA's >
        • IA Marking Exercise
        • Economic Diagrams
      • Extended Essay in Economics
      • SUMMER LEARNING
    • Year 13 >
      • 4. International Economics >
        • 4.A.International trade
        • 4.B.Exchange rates and the balance of payments
        • 4.C.Economics integration and the terms of trade
        • 4.D.Be ambitious resources
      • 5. Development Economics >
        • Understanding Economic Development
        • Topics in Economic Development
        • Foreign sources of finance and foreign debt
        • Consequences of economic growth and the balance between markets and intervention
      • IB Economics - Exams
      • IB ECONOMICS REVISION PAGES >
        • Give Me Fives
        • Economics Past Papers
        • Student Video Tutorials
        • Additional Revision Activities
    • Digital library
    • TOK Inspired Economics Page
    • Process for Deciding Economics University Predicted Grades
  • HS History
    • What is History?
    • IBDP History >
      • Pre - IB History
      • Rationale
      • Introductory Tasks
      • Perspectives Blog
      • IB History Revision Sessions - April 6th to May 1st
      • Paper 1 - Prescribed Subject >
        • Military Leaders >
          • Genghis Khan 1200-1227 >
            • Introduction to the Mongols
            • Mongol Historiography
            • Rise to Power
            • Military Might
            • Leadership
            • Campaigns in China and Asia
            • Impact of the Mongols
            • TOK - Genghis
          • King Richard I of England 1173-1199 >
            • Richard I - Life before 1189
            • Richard I - Crusader King 1190 - 1193
            • Richard I - Military Leadership
            • Richard - Impact
            • Richard I - Reputation and Historiography
            • TOK - Richard I
          • Source Skills
      • Paper 2 - World History Topics >
        • Essay Writing Skills - Paper 2
        • Authoritarian States >
          • Theory
          • Hitler >
            • Emergence and rise to power >
              • HOW MUCH HOPE WAS THERE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC 1919-29?
              • HOW DID THE AIMS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE NAZI PARTY DEVELOP BETWEEN 1919-1923
              • HOW FAR DID THE CONDITIONS OF 1929-33CONTRIBUTE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAZI STATE?
              • WHERE DID SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL SOCIALISM COME FROM?
            • Consolidation and maintenance of power >
              • HOW DID HITLER CONSOLIDATE HIS POWER TO CREATE AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME?
              • WHAT PART DID PERSONALITY AND PROPAGANDA PLAY IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER?
              • WHAT WERE THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF NATIONAL SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT?
              • WHAT WAS THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF OPPOSITION TO NAZI RULE AND HOW WAS IT DEALT WITH?
              • WHAT WAS THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN POLICY ON HITLER'S CONSOLIDATION AND MAINTENANCE OF POWER?
            • Aims and results of policies >
              • WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCED DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL POLICY
              • ​HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS NAZI ECONOMIC POLICY?
              • WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NAZIS AND THE CHURCHES WITHIN GERMANY?
              • HOW DID THE NAZIS SEE THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRY TO ENSURE THE SUPPORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE?
              • ​HOW DID NAZISM AFFECT THE ARTS AND MEDIA?
              • HOW WERE SOCIAL RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL MINORITIES TREATED WITHIN THE NAZI STATE?
              • WHAT WAS THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE NAZI STATE?
              • ​HISTORIOGRAPHY: HISTORIANS VIEWS ON HITLER AS ‘MASTER OF THE THIRD REICH’ AND NAZI GERMANY AS A TOTALITARIAN STATE?
              • HITLER: WEAK OR STRONG DICTATOR? NAZI GERMANY: TOTALITARIAN STATE?
          • Castro >
            • Castro RTP
            • Castro Establisment and consolidation
            • Castro: Aims and results of policies
        • Independence movements 1800 - 2000 >
          • India - Asia >
            • Origin and rise of the Independence Movement >
              • 1857 and Colonial India
              • The Growth of Nationalism
              • Factors in the rise of the Independence Movement
            • Methods and success of the Independence Movement >
              • Leadership in India
              • Why did India win independence?
            • Challenges facing the newly independent state
          • Cuba - The Americas >
            • origins of Cuban Independence before 1823
      • Paper 3 - History of Europe >
        • Essay Writing Skills - Paper 3
        • Monarchies in England and France 1066 - 1223 >
          • Medieval England
          • Pre 1066 - Background
          • The Norman Invasion and its Impact
          • The Angevin Commonwealth
          • The Rise of Capetian France
          • Philip Augustus and Richard
          • Normandy and France - Rivalry and War
          • Royal Government in England and France - A Comparison
        • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1774 TO 1815 >
          • THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
          • 1789: THE END OF THE ANCIEN REGIME
          • CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY:REFORMING FRANCE 1789-92
          • WAR, REVOLT AND OVERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY 1792-3
          • GOVERNMENT BY TERROR 1793-4
          • THERMIDORIAN REACTION AND THE DIRECTORY 1794-9
          • THE IMPACT OF THE REVOLUTION
          • NAPOLEON: CONSULATE AND EMPIRE
          • DIGITAL RESOURCES: FRENCH REVOLUTION
        • Imperial Russia 1854 - 1924
      • Internal Assessment (IA) >
        • Formulating a Question
        • Initial Proposal
        • IA Section 1
        • IA Section 2
        • IA Section 3
        • IA Referencing
        • Marking Exercise
        • Timeline Class of 2018
      • Core >
        • Extended Essay
        • Theory of Knowledge
        • CAS
    • IGCSE Cambridge History >
      • Revision Checklists
      • REVISION Past Papers >
        • MODEL Paper 1
        • MODEL Paper 2 >
          • MODEL Paper 2: Cold War Causes
          • MODEL Paper 2: Treaties
      • Depth Study A: WW1 >
        • 1. Why was war not over by December 1914?
        • 2. Why was there stalemate on the Western Front?
        • 3. How important were other fronts?
        • 4. Why did Germany ask for an armistice in 1918?
        • WW1 EXAM QUESTIONS
      • Core Content 1: Treaties
      • Core Content 2 & 3: League 20s & 30s
      • Core Content 4 : Blame for Cold War?
      • Core Content 5: Cold War Conflicts
      • Depth Study B: Germany >
        • 1. Was the Weimar Republic doomed from start?
        • 2. Why was Hitler able to dominate Germany by 1934?
        • 3a. How effectively did the Nazis control Germany?
        • 3b. What was it like to live in Nazi Germany?
  • HS Business
    • REVISION Past Papers >
      • MODEL Paper 2
    • Unit 1 : Understanding Business Activity >
      • IGCSE Business 1.1
      • IGCSE Business 1.2
      • IGCSE Business 1.3
      • IGCSE Business 1.4
      • IGCSE Business 1.5
    • Unit 2 : People in Business >
      • IGCSE Business 2.1
      • IGCSE Business 2.2
      • IGCSE Business 2.3
      • IGCSE Business 2.4
    • Unit 3 : Marketing >
      • IGCSE Business 3.1
      • IGCSE Business 3.2
      • IGCSE Business 3.3
      • IGCSE Business 3.4
      • IGCSE Business 3.5
      • IGCSE Business 3.6
    • Unit 4 : Operations Management >
      • IGCSE Business 4.1
      • IGCSE Business 4.2
      • IGCSE Business 4.3
      • IGCSE Business 4.4
    • Unit 5: Financial Information & Financial Decisions >
      • IGCSE Business 5.1
      • IGCSE Business 5.2
      • IGCSE Business 5.3
      • IGCSE Business 5.4
      • IGCSE Business 5.5
    • Unit 6: External Influences on Business >
      • IGCSE Business 6.1
      • IGCSE Business 6.2
      • IGCSE Business 6.3
  • SOCIOLOGY HOME
    • Unit 1: Theory and Methods >
      • How do sociologists study society?
    • Unit 4: Family
    • The story of Power England
  • TEACHER PAGES
    • Mrs Bennett
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    • Mr Bish >
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      • February 1953
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