2.3 Responding to global climate change

Unit Contents

• 2.3.1 Climate change risk and vulnerability
• 2.3.2 Global geopolitical efforts
• 2.3.3 Mitigation strategies
• 2.3.4 Civil society and corporate strategies

2.3 Responding to global climate change is part of the core — Global change (Paper 2). The geographic inquiry for this sub-topic is: the effects of global climate change on places, societies and environmental systems

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Geographic inquiry: The effects of global climate change on places, societies and environmental systems

• Disparities in exposure to climate change risk and vulnerability, including variations in people’s location, wealth, social differences (age, gender, education), risk perception
  • Detailed examples of two or more societies with contrasting vulnerability
• 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
• Civil society and corporate strategies to address global climate change
  • Case study of the response to climate change in one country focusing on the actions of non-governmental stakeholders

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