Climate Policy & Citizen Science
📋 What it is
Individuals, communities and governments all act — and ordinary people can gather real data and drive change.
🗣️ Coach says
Action happens at every level. Individuals make choices, communities build clean projects, and governments set policies (like the treaty that healed the ozone layer). And you don’t have to wait — citizen science lets ordinary people gather real climate data. Change comes from many people acting together.
🧠 Memory hook
Action at every level: individual + community + government. Citizen science = you can help NOW.
😂 Giggle
Why was methane such a troublemaker?
It was 80 times more potent at trapping heat than CO₂ in the short term — and it came from the most unexpected places!
😲 Whoa!
The global treaty that phased out ozone-destroying chemicals is healing the ozone layer — proof that coordinated policy can fix a planet-scale problem.
✅ Quick check: Give one example proving coordinated policy can solve a global environmental problem.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
The 1987 treaty phasing out ozone-destroying chemicals — the ozone layer is now healing.
The ozone treaty shows global policy can work.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Find one citizen-science project (bird counts, air quality) — real data anyone can help gather.