2.3.

2 Global geopolitical efforts

 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:

Content
Case study or detailed examples

• Neither required by the syllabus

Aims of this lesson

• To have knowledge and understanding of global geopolitical efforts

to mitigate global climate change.
• To have knowledge and understanding of UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change as a government-lead geopolitical
effort.
• To have knowledge and understanding of government-led
mitigation strategies.
What the papers say...TOK Link

1. Form a group of four. Each person should read one article below and be ready to feedback to the other members of
your group:What is the message of the article? What was the agenda of the writer?
2. What first order and second order knowledge questions does it suggest to you?
3. Explore these knowledge questions briefly with your group members.

Watch the video. How could this work as a RLS? What knowledge questions could be explored?
• HOW REPUBLICANS THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE - NYTIMES
• FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE? WE’RE NOT EVEN LANDING A PUNCH - NYTIMES
• WHY I’LL TALK POLITICS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS – BUT NOT SCIENCE - THE CONV
ERSATION
• GREENPEACE ARTICLE
 Base knowledge and understanding

Video: The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 seconds

Visualisation (next Slide) : 5 charts that explain the Paris climate agreement

News article: BBC News - What is in the Paris climate agreement? [31
May 2017}
Visualisation
 mitigation

Words to adaptation
be defined geopolitical

IPCC
Group investigation
- The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992
- The Kyoto Protocol 1997
- The Paris Agreement 2015
- Cop 28 Dubai

Use the website below and your textbook to create a Google Slides
presentation which includes all of the following:
Slide 1 - Publicity photo from the event with leaders involved
Slide 2 - Objectives
Slide 3 - Who signed up? Who didn't?
Slide 4 - Successes & Failures (for the Paris agreement you should mention
recent developments from Trump/USA)
UN TREATIES SI
Context
Timeline of global geopolitical efforts
A history of climate change negotiations

UNFCCC - 20 Years of Effort and Achievement - Key Mileston

es in the Evolution of International Climate Policy
The Paris Agreement
The Paris Climate Change Agreeme
nt Explained

CarbonBrief
- Paris 2015: Tracking country clim
ate pledges
[15 September 2015]

The Paris Accord is a Bad Deal for A

merica

The Paris Accord: What is it? And

What Does it All Mean?
The failure of climate change negotiations
Climate Secretary admits Copenhagen failures
Concepts
It is possible that global geopolitical efforts,
such as the Paris Agreement, will mitigate the
causes of global climate change. The power to
make the the global geopolitical efforts
successful lies will countries at all levels of
development.
Review
State and explain one global geopolitical
attempt to mitigate the causes of global
climate change. [1 + 2]