Overview

Overview

Climate change is the topic of its own course, and you will have dealt with it in several of your other classes. For this lesson, we will focus on the energy-climate change nexus. We know that a big part of the issue with climate change is the greenhouse gas emissions from consuming fossil fuels, and most of that occurs to generate energy. Hence, energy and climate change are intricately linked.

We will focus on climate change but from the perspective of energy. We have learned this semester that there are four drivers for energy decisions and policy- accessibility, reliability, security, and sustainability. And we have realized that a large part of the sustainability attributes relates to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to: 

• List the conflicting priorities between climate change-driven policy, and energy-driven policy
• Identify how the four attributes of energy (accessibility, reliability, security, and sustainability) relate to climate change

Lesson Roadmap

Questions?

If you have questions, please feel free to post them to the Questions about EGEE 401 Discussion forum in Canvas. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help a classmate.