ENGR 826 - Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

Course Description

This course will focus on scalable solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability, drawing on knowledge and insights from climate scholars across the UC system. The class is originally based on “Ten Scalable Solutions,” that arose from discussions involving 50 faculty from the 10-campus UC system under UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative. This class consists of lectures from experts across the UC campuses, and features the digital textbook, “Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions.”

Learner Outcomes

• Explain basic concepts of climate change science.
• Explain some of the social, scientific and political antecedents that led to the climate crisis.
• Compare the impact that climate change has on the world from various perspectives, including (but not limited to) scientific/technological, socio-economic, governance/regulatory.
• Identify various solutions for carbon neutrality and climate stability, and their interrelationships.
• Identify the winners and losers from climate change mitigation strategies and consider nuanced variations on strategies that lessen negative impacts.
• Organize climate mitigation under the six clusters and apply the pragmatic, scalable solutions from the Bending the Curve textbook in ways that address human dimensions of the problem.
• Identify some of the roles that individuals and groups can play in addressing climate change in one’s community.
• Identify opportunities for action within one’s community.
• Articulate a statement of personal and societal responsibility for environmental equity, ethics, and justice which can guide decisions and behaviors.