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Attempts to manage and mitigate climate change
Online Lesson | 16 Oct 2026 | Start: 19:00 | DURATION: 2 HOURS Specification content
3.1.1.4 Water, carbon, climate and life on Earth
Human interventions in the carbon cycle designed to influence carbon transfers and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Learning outcomes
- Students to have a clear understanding of the concepts of mitigation and adaptation.
- Students to be able to describe and explain in detail a range of specific strategies that are employed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
- Students to understand that mitigation can occur at a variety of scales, from individual to global.
- Students will be able to explain how adaptation can be used at a local scale to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
- Students should be able to recognise that strategies to mitigate climate change have implications for development in the area they are applied, and in areas affected by climate change.
Suggested timing
2 hours
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Course Module: Water and carbon cycles (Autumn 1) | Lesson Attempts to manage and mitigate climate change :
Online Lesson | 16 Oct 2026 | Start: 19:00 | DURATION: 2 HOURS
Specification content
3.1.1.4 Water, carbon, climate and life on Earth
Human interventions in the carbon cycle designed to influence carbon transfers and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Learning outcomes
- Students to have a clear understanding of the concepts of mitigation and adaptation.
- Students to be able to describe and explain in detail a range of specific strategies that are employed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
- Students to understand that mitigation can occur at a variety of scales, from individual to global.
- Students will be able to explain how adaptation can be used at a local scale to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
- Students should be able to recognise that strategies to mitigate climate change have implications for development in the area they are applied, and in areas affected by climate change.
Suggested timing
2 hours
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