Researching Climate Change & The Law

Researching Climate Change & The Law

Fall 2025

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Researching international climate change law

• Step 1: As a reminder, identify your legal issue and what different aspects of law are involved. For example, is this an issue with environmental law and intellectual property?
• Step 2: Identify relevant secondary sources and primary sources of law like the UNFCCC and other relevant treaties.
• Remember: Treaties and general principles of law are consider binding in international law.

• Useful Secondary Sources:
• UNFCCC eHandbook - This handbook from the UN provides a great starting point into the overview of UN climate change treaties, the UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol and Paris agreement, as well as the negotiation process and issues covered by the UN.

• IPCC Library - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Library holds a repository of IPCC Assessment Reports, Special and Methodology Reports and Techinical Reports from IPCC experts and workshops.
• Step 4: If you start to regularly work with or research a particular issue, make sure to track treaty changes.
• Track International Changes here: Global Climate Action Tracker

Example: International Law & Climate Change

• Step 1: As a reminder, identify your legal issue and what different aspects of law are involved. For example, is this an issue with environmental law and intellectual property?
• Step 2: Identify relevant secondary sources and primary sources of law like the UNFCCC and other relevant treaties.
• Remember: Treaties and general principles of law are consider binding in international law.

• Useful Secondary Sources:
• UNFCCC eHandbook - This handbook from the UN provides a great starting point into the overview of UN climate change treaties, the UNFCC, Kyoto Protocol and Paris agreement, as well as the negotiation process and issues covered by the UN.

• IPCC Library - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Library holds a repository of IPCC Assessment Reports, Special and Methodology Reports and Technical Reports from IPCC experts and workshops.
• Step 4: If you start to regularly work with or research a particular issue, make sure to track treaty changes.
• Track International Changes here: Global Climate Action Tracker

Researching U.S. climate change law

• Step 1: As a reminder, identify your legal issue and what different aspects of law are involved. For example, is this an issue with environmental law and intellectual property?
• Step 2: Identify relevant sources of law like the UNFCCC and other relevant treaties.
• Remember: Treaties and general principles of

• How to find the sources:
• Step 4: If you start to regularly work with
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Researching Florida climate change law

• Step 1: As a reminder, identify your legal issue and what different aspects of law are involved. For example, is this an issue with environmental law and intellectual property?
• Step 2: Identify relevant sources of law like the UNFCCC and other relevant treaties.
• Remember: Treaties and general principles of

• How to find the sources:
• Step 4: If you start to regularly work with
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Contextualize your topic

Plant Growth Stages

Sections like this will help you stay organized.

Sections like this will help you stay organized.

Sections like this will help you stay organized.

Sections like this will help you stay organized.

Sections like this will help you stay organized.

Use tables and infographics

Visual communication is a key tool. It is easier for us to 'read' images than to read written text. That's why disciplines like Visual Thinking facilitate knowledge organization through the use of images, graphics, infographics, and simple drawings.

Flax

Poppy

Carnation

SEASON

Sunflower

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Write a great headline

Pose a question or problem that makes the class think; it is the essential ingredient to maintain their attention. It is usually posed at the beginning of the topic to encourage critical thinking and participation.

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Describe the topic and the content you are going to cover in class and don't forget to emphasize why the topic is interesting

Describe the topic and the content you are going to cover in class and don't forget to emphasize why the topic is interesting

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• Let the communication flow!

Awesome timeline, step by step

Although you shouldn’t overuse bullet points, icons and diagrams can be your best allies when presenting. You’ll hold the attention of your class and the information will be imprinted in their brains.

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Social beings

Narrative beings

We are visual beings

We need to interact with each other. We learn collaboratively.

We tell thousands and thousands of stories. ⅔ of our conversations are stories.

We are capable of understanding images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.

Use an image

And use this space to describe it. To insert an image, you can upload it from your computer or use the resources within the tool.

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Write a great headline

Visual content is a cross-cutting and universal language, like music. We are capable of understanding images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.

Write a great headline

Visual content is a cross-cutting and universal language, like music. We are capable of understanding images from millions of years ago, even from other cultures.