About This Lesson
Description
Carbon pricing, including cap-and-trade and carbon taxes, is one tool in the toolbox governments have to reduce the impacts of climate change. What kind of a tool is it? After an introduction to carbon pricing, students use an online simulator to investigate multiple pathways to a cooler future.
SWBAT
- Explain the basics of a cap-and-trade and carbon tax system.
- Understand some impacts from carbon pricing systems.
Skills
- Graph reading
- Analyzing simulation data
