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UN CC: Learn - knowledge sharing platform

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Investing in People and Learning to Foster a Climate Resilient and Green Transition

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Another great site with lesson plans.

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Climate change education across the curriculum, across the globe

Climate change is considered to be the most critical factor affecting sustainable and equitable development, increasing conflicts, and causing massive extinction of species. Its impact is inseparable from our day-to-day life, now and in future, so is both a problem to be addressed by action policies, and a problem that requires education and that can be adopted for more effective teaching.

The TROP ICSU project collects and curates educational resources for teachers and self-learners to learn about Climate Change. The quality of life of future generations is largely dependent on the quality of education that we impart to today's students.

The goal is not to introduce Climate Education as a stand-alone topic, but to integrate it with the core curriculum of Science, Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

Teaching Tools
Individual resources from researchers and educators, that can be used to teach a topic in the core curriculum of a particular discipline with the help of a climate-related example.

Lesson Plans
Each Lesson Plan consists of a set of teaching tools and a write-up, packaged in the form of a step-by-step guide for the classroom.

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Climate change education across the curriculum, across the globe Climate change is considered to be the most critical factor affecting sustainable and equitable development, increasing conflicts, and causing massive extinction of species.

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"Empowering young people is what I've been all about for so long, beginning our roots and shoots program, back in 1991, with 12 high school students. [...] Young people, such as those who are here today, such as all of you who took part in this competition."
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, ClimateScience Olympiad Finals Ceremony, COP26 Glasgow.
"Empowering young people is what I've been all about for so long, beginning our roots and shoots program, back in 1991, with 12 high school students. [...] Young people, such as those who are here today, such as all of you who took part in this competition."
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, ClimateScience Olympiad Finals Ceremony, COP26 Glasgow.

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Take action on system climate solutions. Science-backed, easy-to-understand climate education for everyone.

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Apocalypse Never (by Michael Schellenberger)

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Apocalypse Never (by Michael Schellenberger)

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Now a National Bestseller!

Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.

Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.

But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die," contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.

Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.

Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions.

What's really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.

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Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal.

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The Optimistic Environmentalist (by David R. Boyd)

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The Optimistic Environmentalist (by David R. Boyd)

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A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others. The Optimistic Environmentalist chronicles these remarkable success stories. Endangered species - from bald eagles to gray whales - pulled back from the precipice of extinction. Thousands of new parks, protecting billions of hectares of land and water. The salvation of the ozone layer, vital to life on Earth. The exponential growth of renewable energy powered by wind, water, and sun. The race to be the greenest city in the world. Remarkable strides in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink. The banning of dozens of the world's most toxic chemicals. A circular economy where waste is a thing of the past. Past successes pave the way for even greater achievements in the future. Providing a powerful antidote to environmental despair, this book inspires optimism, leading readers to take action and exemplifying how change can happen. A bright green future is not only possible, it's within our grasp.

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A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others.

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"This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW." -Jane Goodall

Fears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children's future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.

In the face of extreme eco-anxiety, scholar and award-winning author Elin Kelsey argues that our hopelessness-while an understandable reaction-is hampering our ability to address the very real problems we face. Kelsey offers a powerful solution: hope itself.

Hope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom to show why evidence-based hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for change. Kelsey shares real-life examples of positive climate news that reveal the power of our mindsets to shape reality, the resilience of nature, and the transformative possibilities of individual and collective action. And she demonstrates how we can build on positive trends to work toward a sustainable and just future, before it's too late.

Praise for Hope Matters

"Whether you consider yourself a passionate ally of nature, a busy bystander, or anything in between, this book will uplift your spirits, helping you find hope in the face of climate crisis." -Veronica Joyce Lin, North American Association for Environmental Education "30 Under 30"

"A tonic in hard times."
-Claudia Dreyguis, author of Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times

"Beautifully written and an effective antidote against apathy and inaction."
-Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Center for the Environment and Society

Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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"This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW." -Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children's future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates

"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." -Melinda Gates

"Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school-we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective-from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

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"This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn't enough. But I hope this book will be." Hans Rosling, February 2017.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that.

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An Inconvenient Apocalypse (by Wes Jackson & Robert Jensen)

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An Inconvenient Apocalypse (by Wes Jackson & Robert Jensen)

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Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction.
For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse-and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable future. Longstanding assumptions about economic growth and technological progress-the dream of a future of endless bounty-are no longer tenable. The climate crisis has already progressed beyond simple or nondisruptive solutions. The end result will be apocalyptic; the only question now is how bad it will be.

Jackson and Jensen examine how geographic determinism shaped our past and led to today's social injustice, consumerist culture, and high-energy/high-technology dystopias. The solution requires addressing today's systemic failures and confronting human nature by recognizing the limits of our ability to predict how those failures will play out over time. Though these massive challenges can feel overwhelming, Jackson and Jensen weave a secular reading of theological concepts-the prophetic, the apocalyptic, a saving remnant, and grace-to chart a collective, realistic path for humanity not only to survive our apocalypse but also to emerge on the other side with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world.

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Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by contraction.For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse-and yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster.

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How the World Really Works (by Vaclav Smil)

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How the World Really Works (by Vaclav Smil)

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."-Bill Gates

"Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil-accept or doubt his 'just the facts' posture-but you probably shouldn't ignore him."-The Washington Post

An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible-a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check-because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.

In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable-the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020-and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions.

Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors... [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world's toughest challenges."-Bill Gates "Provocative but perceptive . . .

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Climate Change Education for Mitigation and Adaptation (by Allison Anderson)

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Climate Change Education for Mitigation and Adaptation (by Allison Anderson)

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Seaspiracy: Directed by Ali Tabrizi. With Ali Tabrizi, Richard O’Barry, Lucy Tabrizi, Lori Marino. Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.

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Directed by Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent. With Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon. The world"s climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

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Flexible, ready-to-use climate change activities for high school and undergraduate educators, based on MIT’s award-winning Today I Learned: Climate podcast.

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The Grand Canyon Trust has incredible resources for students on land and water rights, indigenous perspectives and climate education.

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Protecting the Grand Canyonlands - Environmental Conservation | Grand Canyon Trust

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A nonprofit organization dedicated to Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau conservation and environmental advocacy.

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Climate change is a long-term shift in global or regional climate patterns. Often climate change refers specifically to the rise in global temperatures from the mid-20th century to present.

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Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage.

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We promote use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!

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The Earth Institute - Columbia University

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The Earth Institute was established in 1995 to advance our understanding of Earth science and apply that knowledge to decisions made by governments and businesses around the world. A world leader in the science and knowledge to address climate challenges, the Earth Institute continues its mission today as an integral part of the Columbia Climate School.

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Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming

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Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming

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Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming | PBS LearningMedia

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Students conduct an experiment to determine CO2 levels in four different gases, examine evidence of global warming in our environment, and consider their own role in contributing to global warming.

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Climate Change

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Combining several content areas can guide students to develop a deep understanding of how climate change affects them and their community.

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There's a great need for rigorous, relevant, and impactful learning about climate change, one of the most important issues facing our generation. When interdisciplinary learning and student choice are incorporated, students can attain a more enduring understanding of climate change, think innovatively, and transform their ideas into meaningful civic action.

Using multiple content areas, peer-reviewed data, informational text, and scaffolding to examine climate change, we can push student thinking in original ways while also challenging traditional methods of thinking; we can collectively reimagine new ways to educate, advocate, and connect all members of a community. The following project highlights this learning with an integration of science, technology, art, social studies, and mathematics.

Our project: rising Sea Levels

For "The Water Line Project," students researched how 10 feet of rising sea levels would impact 23 coastal states in the United States. From their research they created a presentation and shared their knowledge with their class in a think-pair-share model. They also shared their research and learning with community members within and outside of the school.

The "Water Line Project" bulletin board had printed research slides, a map of the United States marked with paint to visually represent land affected by 10-foot rising sea levels, and papier-mâché sculptures. Based on their research, students picked one animal or insect that rising sea levels would negatively affect. Using recycled newspaper and wheat paste, they created three-dimensional papier-mâché sculptures and attached them to the same bulletin board. The public display of learning allowed students the opportunity to engage the larger school population in an interactive and authentic way.
Courtesy of Amanda Schaeffer
At the heart of every great project is student choice. When students have choices in their learning and how they demonstrate it, they're more engaged, invested, and able to see the relevancy and application of their learning.

"The Water Line Project" allowed students the opportunity to investigate and use their curiosity to generate their own questions, which they used to guide their learning. Students could choose which state they wanted to research and what insect or animal to focus on. Many students picked their state based on personal experiences, such as having family or traveling there; they chose their animal as a result of research of adaptations and ecosystems within that location.

One way to help students begin to unravel the complexity of peer-reviewed research and data is to create teacher-guided research pathways. Using thoughtful structures, intentionally choosing where students can explore openly, and having limits scaffolds knowledge, allows creativity to flourish, and encourages student ownership of learning.

"The Water Line Project" used the online learning platform Canvas and research pathways where each subtopic of climate change, such as shrinking of the Arctic ice, deforestation, and thawing of permafrost, had its own webpage that included a wealth of resources, such as videos, articles, and guided data platforms such as that of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) or the " Sea Level Rise Viewer" from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). In addition, an embedded Padlet allowed students the opportunity to share their research with other students from different sections and different academic years.

The goal of using informational text and interpreted data is to teach students to question bias, consider multiple perspectives, and embrace ambiguity. This is often difficult for students and requires strategic questioning and planning. One strategy is to begin with statistics that are relevant to a student's experience. For example, in "The Water Line Project," students could look at the impact of rising sea levels on an area of interest, like sports stadiums, art museums, and national and state parks, as a starting point for their research. From that point, students refined their research and had to focus on certain data points.

Giving students the opportunity to look critically at data and to consider the context with which the data is being analyzed opens up the conversation to begin framing future research and information.

Providing advocacy and student empowerment opportunities allows students to invest in their communities both within and outside of school. "The Water Line Project" is one example of a project that breaks down the traditional structure of knowledge and places agency in student hands by rethinking shared online spaces, including social media, and collective thinking.

When students feel empowered to share their learning with a wider audience, they begin to see themselves represented and reflected in their communities as agents of change. This brings relevancy to their learning, since they can apply it to many different aspects of their lives.

Using interdisciplinary learning to investigate climate change can provide students with an opportunity to use data-driven research and informational text, which in turn allows students to engage in deeper learning. Offering students choice and the opportunities for agency and advocacy empowers them in their learning and provides them with a way to engage in their communities.

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Tweets, Ads, and Lies: Researchers Are Fighting against Climate Misinformation

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Scientists have known for decades that the continued use of fossil fuels, like gas, oil, and coal, is the primary reason for the climate crisis. Global temperatures are soaring due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, but with urgent, systemic actions, there is still time to make a difference. But how do we ensure people get accurate and scientific information about climate change that can help save the planet? It starts with taking on climate lies.

In a yearlong project, called Data and Misinformation in an Era of Sustainability and Climate Change Crises, researchers at Boston University worked to do just that. They recently shared their findings during a full day research symposium held at the Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). The event, aptly titled Taking on Climate Lies, took a deep dive into the project's three main research areas: how climate misinformation permeates social media platforms, in particular Twitter and Reddit; misleading advertising in mainstream media; and language used to sow doubt about the urgency of climate change.

"Misinformation is pervasive, it's at a very unique moment in our culture, and a post-truth society cannot survive," said Benjamin Sovacool, director of BU's Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). "This work couldn't be more timely."

From the 17th floor of CDS, where the symposium took place, Boston's skyline was on full display-a place threatened by increasing sea level rise and extreme heat. The Charles River glistened below, and the city's famous red and white Citgo sign was visible in the distance through the glass windows behind the audience, as researchers presented findings from the project.

"We need a championing of stories," said Jonathan Schrag, Massachusetts' deputy climate chief and director of investment for decarbonization and resilience, who delivered the keynote address. "We need accurate information that clearly articulates where to invest."

He also advocated for making that information easily accessible for consumers, not just to fight climate lies, but also so they can take full advantage of tax credits passed with the Inflation Reduction Act and other incentives that make decarbonizing and electrifying homes and cars more affordable.

Climate Misinformation on Twitter

One major theme throughout the symposium was the fossil fuel industry's role in shaping the climate conversation. Irena Vodenska, a BU Metropolitan College professor of finance and IGS core faculty member, talked about fossil fuel companies starting to spread false climate information decades ago. Like when Exxon's own scientists reportedly found that burning fossil fuels would cause catastrophic climate change, disrupt ecosystems, and lead to planetary warming and changes in weather patterns, but the company instead promoted information saying the opposite.

Vodenska and a cross-disciplinary team of BU researchers shared their efforts to examine climate mis- and disinformation on Twitter and Reddit, a tactic that became part of the fossil fuel industry's communication strategy. They analyzed over 22,000 tweets that spread climate disinformation, and identified over 60 Twitter accounts funded by ExxonMobil-the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company-that promote false and misleading information about the climate crisis.

The narratives related to climate change skepticism have evolved over the years. This graph, which can be viewed with more detail here, tracks tweets that downplay the seriousness of climate change. Courtesy of Hyunuk Kim.

By further analyzing the tweets, they surfaced two major recurring themes from the ExxonMobil-linked accounts: "climate change is not threatening," and "Biden's energy plans hurt economic growth." On Reddit, the researchers analyzed content on three subreddit forums, /r/climate, /r/climatechange, and /r/climateskeptics, posted from 2008 to present day. Misinformation was present in all three groups (especially /r/climateskeptics), but there were more instances when skepticism about climate change was refuted or challenged in the science-focused groups, /r/climate and/r/climatechange.

"Climate change should not be a political issue," said Vodenska. "It's an issue that impacts the place we all live, whether you're Democrat or Republican."

The team is aiming to use their language processing techniques to study misinformation across other subject areas, and hope that their tools can eventually help make fact-checking and flagging information on social media platforms more accurate.

"A big takeaway for me is that there's a small, but loud number of voices that are putting out climate misinformation," says Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, executive director of IGS. "They're networked and working together, so how do we disentangle that, and how do we promote science as a way forward?"

Separating Truth from Lies

Alongside social media, one of the most effective ways climate lies spread is through native advertising-a type of paid content that looks deceivingly like real news articles. Michelle Amazeen, a BU College of Communication associate professor of mass communication, advertising, and public relations, and Chris Wells, a COM associate professor of emerging media studies and core faculty in IGS, identified the news publications that run the most native advertisements and the companies that pay for them.

"It's a form of camouflage," Amazeen says. They looked at the top 50 English-language news organizations by web traffic in the US and found that 26 have published native advertising. Those included the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, and the HuffPost. A single native advertising article can cost over $500,000, making it an extremely enticing revenue stream for media organizations that have notoriously struggled financially since the early 2000s.

The researchers showed dozens of native advertisements paid for by companies like Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute, and Energias de Portugal. A notable example came from the New York Times, with the headline, " The Future of Energy? It May Come From Where You Least Expect," paid for by ExxonMobil. The ad was used in the lawsuit brought against Exxon by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who as attorney general sued the company for deceptive advertising to consumers and for misleading investors about the risks posed by climate change, including systemic financial risk.

Amazeen and Wells have found that disclaimers-like "Paid Post"- do little to alert readers. They explained that these types of ads misrepresent the full extent to which fossil fuel companies are responsible for climate change-often touting their efforts to be "green" and "sustainable," without acknowledging that those efforts make up a tiny fraction of their business, or that they're causing the damage in the first place.

Amazeen and Arunima Krishna, a COM assistant professor of mass communication, advertising, and public relations, also shared how all these types of climate misinformation influence people's beliefs. In 2021, Krishna surveyed 645 Americans about their views on climate change, categorizing the public into four groups: disinformation immune, disinformation vulnerable, disinformation receptive, and disinformation amplifying-the smallest group, who hold extremely negative attitudes about climate change, doubt humans' role in accelerating it, and are motivated to spread the disinformation they believe.

According to Krishna, having these categories can lead to better targeted information campaigns that can more effectively educate people about the realities of climate change. She told the symposium audience that, based on the research, before engaging with or trying to influence someone who is vulnerable or has accepted false information about climate change, or any topic, it's imperative to first understand the other person's perspective.

"Despite the issues, social media is an incredibly dialogic platform," Krishna says. "I think that we need to remember that, and go back to the roots of social media, which emerged as a way to encourage dialogue among people who can't otherwise interact."

The next step for researchers is to test different correction strategies-like how and where a paid post is labeled on social media platforms, or where and when to repudiate fake news. IGS also has plans to further investigate corporate environmental, social, and governance investments by improving ways of measuring impacts and metrics to see if companies are following through on their commitments.

To cap the day, BU leaders-including deans from COM, MET, and the College of Engineering-took part in a panel discussion to share their perspectives on the University's leadership on climate solutions. Ioannis Paschalidis, director of Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, and Gloria S. Waters, BU vice president and associate provost for research, talked about different initiatives and research opportunities. Mariette DiChristina, dean of COM, talked about the college's collaborations, such as one with the Civic Science Fellows program.

"We have to create defenses," Sovacool said after the day's events. "And that starts with projects like this."

This research was jointly funded by IGS and the Hariri Institute.

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Sponsored by the United States Department of State, the Teacher Suite of Online Courses allows educators to engage with knowledgeable peers and experts and support educators in fostering students’ global competences. These interactive massive open online courses (MOOCs) are free, publicly accessible, self-paced, and include lesson plans and videos for use in the classroom.

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Global Education 101 introduces educators to teaching for global competence. Educators who complete this introductory course can:

Understand the foundations of global competence;

Grow as globally competent educators;

Learn practical strategies for incorporating global education into the classroom.

Teaching Online for Global Competence equips educators with the knowledge and skills they need to be confident online global instructors. Educators who complete the course can:

Explore frameworks, tools, and resources that can be used in global classrooms;

Facilitate virtual learning and collaboration;

Engage students in cross-cultural community building.

Solving Global Problems provides educators with an understanding of problem-driven learning and how to apply it in their classrooms. Educators who complete the course can:

Understand elements of problem-driven learning;

Apply problem-driven learning across content areas and grade levels;

Strengthen students' global competencies by addressing real-world challenges.

STEM Innovations and Global Competence invites educators to explore the intersection of STEM subjects and global competence. Educators who complete the course can:

Understand how STEM and global competence are related;

Develop skills to create STEM curriculum that fosters student innovation and global competence;

Build resources for establishing cross-cultural collaborations and integrating STEM topics;

Learn how to empower students to solve global problems using STEM skills.

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These interactive massive open online courses (MOOCs), which include lesson plans and videos, allow educators to engage with knowledgeable peers and experts and support educators in fostering students' global competences.

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SubjectToClimate (StC) FREE Professional Learning Modules

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SubjectToClimate (StC) FREE Professional Learning Modules

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For a comprehensive overview of all StC's professional learning modules for free, Margaret Wang shared the followling link: https://subjecttoclimate.org/professional-learning/subjecttoclimate-climate-education-essentials-courses

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This is a series of courses developed by SubjectToClimate to help teachers teach about climate change.Level 0 is about climate change basics. It includes five modules, including the history of climate science, climate science basics, and climate solutions. Level 0 takes approximately 4 hours to comp…

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SubjectToClimate(StC) Module 4: How can I incorporate climate change content into my classes?

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SubjectToClimate(StC) Module 4: How can I incorporate climate change content into my classes?

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Margaret Wang, one of our TGE presenters, shared this resource with us! SubjectToChange's fourth module will help you become familiar with six approaches to incorporating climate change content into the classroom; evaluate which approach best matches your teaching style, grade level, subject, and setting; and identify ways to implement the approach in the classroom.

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Explore the MIT Climate Portal Educator Guides at https://climate.mit.edu/tilclimate-guides-educators.

This resource was shared by our presenter Sylvia Scharf! It shares flexible, ready-to-use climate change activities from MIT with educators!

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Flexible, ready-to-use climate change activities from MIT

TILclimate guides for educators are developed by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative as an extension of our TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) podcast, to make it easier for you to teach climate change, earth science, and energy topics in the classroom. The short (10-15 minute), science-driven episodes of TILclimate can be used as a substitution for a lecture, a supplemental introduction to a unit, and more. Episodes of TILclimate and the associated educator guides are designed to further student understanding of multiple interlocking aspects of climate change, with a particular focus on solutions.

In each educator guide, you will find a series of activities that can be taught individually or all together, including:

One or more short introductory activities for group learning (10-25 minutes)

Data-driven deeper dives using trusted visualization and analysis tools (20-45 minutes)

Activities that invite students to think about how they would share their learning with family and friends

Teacher pages that provide setup instructions, discussion questions, background resources, a summary of relevant skills, standards and disciplinary core ideas, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers

Image credit: remixed from a photo by Todd Van Hoosear via Flickr
Educator guides are available for these episodes of TILclimate:

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Flexible, ready-to-use climate change activities for high school and undergraduate educators, based on MIT's award-winning Today I Learned: Climate podcast.