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The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development – Trailer

Visit edX.org to enroll in The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development: https://www.edx.org/course/the-best-start-in-life-early-childhood-development

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Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact - Trailer

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Why Should We Care About Climate Change?

Explains the difference between natural climate change of the past and man-made climate change today, introducing the hockey stick graph.

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Paleoclimate Evidence of Climate Change

Looks at climate change in the historical context, explaining why the rate of climate change today is unprecedented.

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What is Climate Change?

Introduces the idea of climate change, highlighting the difference between weather and climate, and the history of natural climate change versus man-made climate change.

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Allocation of Rights

Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other sectors of the economy. Specifically, soil ownership does not entitle one to mineral rights (though there are some countries with exceptions to this). Mineral rights often belong to the government. Ownership of the geological information also poses a significant issue in asymmetrical knowledge ��e.g. industry holding more…

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Other Drivers of Climate Change

The rising greenhouse gas concentrations have been the main drivers of the overall rise of Earth’s temperature, especially during the recent decades, but year-to-year fluctuations of temperature have even more causes. It takes time for Earth to reach new equilibriums of warming for the atmosphere and ocean, so that means that even with the high concentrations of greenhouse gases that we have today, there would be a gradual warming to catch up with greenhouse effect. There are notable…

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Climate Action: Solutions for a Changing Planet – Trailer

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Recent History of Climate Change

This chapter discusses current trends in climate science, beginning with maps produced by Professor James Hansen. The first map shows a bell curve of temperatures for each place during the time interval of 1951 to 1980 so that we know the normal distribution of temperatures in each part of the world and define extreme events as three-stand-deviation outliers of super hot and cold to determine the frequency of such events. While these extreme events did not occur during that period, they occur…