2.3.4 Technology and geo-engineering

Content

Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- Possibilities for responding to climate change and power over the decision-making process
Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Government-led adaptation and mitigation strategies for global climate change: technology, including geo-engineering
Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge and understanding of several mitigation strategies for global climate change including:
  - carbon emissions offsetting
  - carbon trading
- To be able to discuss the possibilities of various mitigation strategies and their likely success.

Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial

The Guardian · 22 April 2025

Carbon sequestration
- The process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or other sources, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere.

Geoengineering
- The deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change.

Mitigation
- The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

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Outline one example of a geo-engineering strategy designed to mitigate climate change. [2]
Suggest two reasons why some people oppose the use of geo-engineering as a response to climate change. [4]