Published June 2, 2026 | Version 2

Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change

  • 1. EDMO icon Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Description

Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change presents information that is important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change, and solutions. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion-starters or launching points for learning about the climate
crisis and what’s being done to address it across the world. The guide aims to promote greater climate literacy by providing an educational and communication framework of principles and concepts.

Notes (English)

This version of the guide has all links to federal resources directed to archived versions of the resource, so that the information is still usable. Outside of the links, the content and formatting is unaltered from the original version.

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Related works

Is supplement to
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.21829709 (DOI)
Is supplemented by
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.21813465 (DOI)