Climate Change, Energy And Resources

Climate change is the issue that ties almost every other global topic together. The world keeps warming because we burn coal, oil and gas for the energy that powers our homes, factories and transport, and those same fuels are finite. In Global Perspectives you are not asked to memorise the science for its own sake; you are asked to think about the issue the GP way: to weigh how it looks to a single person, to a country, and to the whole world, to test the evidence and the arguments on both sides, and to reason your way toward fair and workable courses of action.

This note shows you how to do exactly that. You will see the core facts stated with their sources and years, the three perspectives set side by side, the big debates laid out as argument and counter-argument so you can stay balanced, and a set of report and team-project ideas you could actually use. Throughout, the worked examples model the skills the exam rewards: spotting a perspective, evaluating a claim, framing a sharp question and building a line of reasoning.