Assessment 5 1150

This assessment gives you an opportunity to practice your problem-solving skills and you will do this by evaluating the feasibility and impact of individual and global actions that can be taken to limit climate change and selecting the best solutions. It will show that you can identify a problem and examine possible solutions. You will be able to apply what you’ve learned about the environment and climate change to the decisions you make in your daily life, solving a larger problem like climate change by contributing on an individual level. You will also have the opportunity to consider broader changes at a global level that can impact climate change. Problem solving is a universal skill and one you will continue to refine as you progress throughout your career. This assessment asks you to use what you’ve learned throughout the course about solving real-world problems with science.

This assessment has two parts:

• Part 1: You will first analyze and construct a proposed solution to reduce carbon footprint and affect global climate change.
• Part 2: You will create an infographic (using tools such as Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint) or a PowerPoint presentation based on your proposed solution to a targeted audience.

For this assessment, use the information you gleaned by determining your carbon footprint from the EPA’s Carbon Footprint Calculator found in the .

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Review this scenario:

You are a junior researcher at a consulting firm that deals mainly with how world governments can effectively respond to climate change. Climate experts agree that changing our individual consumption habits can make a difference, but they also stress that climate change must be addressed as well through government policy. However, all climate policies come with their own costs and benefits; for example, greatly reducing economic development in growing countries could have dramatic human costs.

You’ve also been asked to model different global policy approaches to climate change. These approaches will be presented to you as three different situations in which some policies are favored over others. After modeling these situations, you will assess the projected temperature and then suggest additional policies to keep the overall rise within 2C. Climate scientists agree that limiting temperature rise to this amount will help us avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Finally, you will write the results of your modeling and your recommendations for keeping climate change in check.

Use the to complete this assessment.

Follow these steps to complete Part 1:

• Step 1: Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed solutions to reducing your carbon footprint.
• What are suggested actions you can take to reduce your carbon footprint based on your results?
• Does the cost of going green limit your ability to reduce your carbon footprint?
• Step 2: Compare and contrast existing solutions, conclusions, or approaches to reducing your carbon footprint.
• Locate the “free” options and see how simple changes can reduce your carbon footprint.
• Locate the $ options and see how these approaches can reduce your carbon footprint.
• Compare the free and $ options. Which do you see as most beneficial and why? Are any of the $ options feasible?
• Step 3: Examine the factors that influence the feasibility of proposed scenarios for reducing global climate change.
• We can start saving the energy from our home itself, and later can implement these things on a much wider scale at the society level, then at the city level, then district level, and finally at the country level and global level. Consider how your individual changes can impact global climate change efforts.
• Step 4: Summarize the most effective solution to global climate change.
• Use the resources provided in the course text, websites, and/or articles to help summarize the most effective solutions.

Follow these steps to complete Part 2:

• Step 5: Highlights key results from your modeling of different global policy approaches to climate change.
• Discuss key global policy approaches and provide insights on how they are critical to reducing global climate change.
• Identify global policies in place that you believe are most beneficial to global climate change reduction.
• Step 6: Describe ways to address climate change issues and environmental issues at the individual level.
• Use your analysis earlier where you constructed a proposed solution to reduce carbon footprint and affect global climate change. What individual changes can you make that can address climate change and environmental issues?
• Provide reasons to persuade your readers that your proposed solution will achieve the desired environmental change.
• Describe 35 strategies to address climate change and environmental issues at the global level. For example, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, relying on clean energy technologies, or replacing petroleum and diesel vehicles with electric and hydrogen fuel vehicles.

You will have two deliverables for this assessment:

• The completed .
• The infographic or PowerPoint presentation.

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message.
• Font and font size: Arial, 12 point.
• Citations: Include complete citations of your sources. Review for more information on how to cite your sources.