3. Responding to global climate change

Geographic inquiry: Possibilities for responding to climate change and power over the decision-making process

• 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

• Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities: Why perspectives and viewpoints may be different about the need for, practicality and urgency of action on global climate change