Module 3: Climate Change Self-awareness and paradoxes of climate footprint: mine, yours, ours… and all’s

This module focus on climate change and raise self-awareness on our climate footprint. It integrates perspectives from science  to provide knowledge, skills and attitudes to the students to address climate change issues. The main aim is to explore the nine planetary boundaries and examine how scientific understanding is translated into policy, public communication, and action. Through visual tools like global warming stripes and climate logos, the module emphasizes the importance of raising awareness, communicating effectively, and confronting the complexities and paradoxes of climate activism. It also addresses the legal and political responses to the climate crisis and challenges students to reflect on their personal commitment to climate action.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the planetary boundaries concept
2. Understand the impacts of the planetary boundaries
3. Recognize the importance of a strong image in climate communication
4. Use correctly the terms of the climate glossary
5. Creatively conceive new communication ideas for climate action
6. Check which countries have issued climate emergency declarations
7. Recognise legal initiatives to fight climate change
8. Describe the causes for climate science uncertainty
9. Justify the relevance of the IPCC reports
10. Have a critical perspective on the paradoxes of fighting climate change and climate activism
11. Provide examples of individual contributions to climate change mitigation