ENGR 171 University of California Riverside Climate Change Solutions Essay

• Please try to make linkages to the class material; for example:
  1. how does the course’s six clusters and ten solutions relate to what you have investigated with your project?
  2. What is your project’s potential for addressing climate change?
• Shoot for 3750 words or greater (3-5 pages) for the entire document, including the executive summary.

There are some helpful document to read in the uploaded files

Projects Dimensions:

• How does your case study fit or map onto the six clusters and 10 solutions? Which curves are they bending? Are you targeting short lived climate pollutants or CO2?

• How does your topic or plan motivate people to take action?

• How are people convinced of the legitimacy of climate change science;the need for actions; conveyance of a sense of urgency?

• Technologies deployed and barriers: Off-the shelf versus newtechnologies; How will you improve it?

• Are they scalable? How; if not why not?

• Integration of local interests (localization) with global impact

• Role of behavioral changes, market mechanisms employed, corporate support

• How fast can your proposed actions have an impact given the constraints of public and political support?

• What governance practices are being deployed?

• How are principles of effective leadership being employed?

• What social movement are you trying to engage in or create?