Introduction to Climate Change

With further warming, climate change risks will become increasingly complex and more difficult to manage. Multiple climatic and non-climatic risk drivers will interact, resulting in compounding overall risk and risks cascading across sectors and regions. Climate-driven food insecurity and supply instability, for example, are projected to increase with increasing global warming, interacting with non-climatic risk drivers such as competition for land between urban expansion and food production, pandemics and conflict. (IPCC, 2023)

In this section you will find a number of learning resources that will help you teach or learn about climate change at a general, global level. First, there is a set of ready made presentations in PDF format suited for teaching or self studies. In the same section you will find quizzes related to the same themes. The quizzes are made with the H5P tool.

Then there is a concept map showing the causes and effects of climate change. The concept map covers some, but not all aspects of climate change. The map emphasizes the need for systems thinking when dealing with climate change.

Videos and podcasts contains a selection of YouTube videos and podcasts that are relevant for self studies or

The tool chapter lists a number of tools and web sites that can be used to dig deeper into concepts like carbon fotprint, using simulators, calculators and the like. These can be used to build exercises and group work tasks. Other teaching resources are found here as well.

Carbon trading and financial mechanisms has been given a chapter of its own, as billions of dollars related to these mechanisms are floating around globally, which gives an opportunity for especially forestry based activities to get a share of these resources.

High level, international climate negotiations form the basis for political decisions related to climate change. For anyone who’s work is in some way related to climate change, it is important to have a basic understanding of these processes and their implications.