GEOG 115

Main Course

Natural Climate Solutions

Description

Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: previous climate or physical geography courses. Consideration of how many solutions exist to tackle the climate crisis besides ending fossil fuels. Study of solutions that use multiple nature-based approaches to remove carbon dioxide from the air through reductions in carbon emissions and increases in carbon uptake from ecosystem protection, management, and restoration. Exploration of natural and human dimensions with central focus on global and regional carbon cycle and its changes. P/NP or letter grading.