2024 Current Issue Resources

Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future Current Environmental Issue Study Resources

2024 Current Issue Objectives

  1. Define energy and explain how energy is relevant in our everyday lives.
  2. Explain how traditional non-renewable energy sources such as petroleum, coal and natural gas are extracted and utilized to create energy.
  3. Identify the environmental, social, and economic advantages and disadvantages of these traditional nonrenewable energy sources and evaluate their suitability for meeting the world’s energy needs of the future.
  4. Describe the criteria for an energy source to be renewable and identify examples.
  5. Explain how Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric systems generate electricity, and identify the technological advancements that have made that possible.
  6. Identify the environmental, social, and economic advantages and disadvantages of Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric power and evaluate their suitability for meeting the world’s energy needs of the future.
  7. Describe the impact of renewable energy projects have on natural resources and the environment on both local and global scales.
  8. Identify actions or innovative approaches to address negative impacts from renewable energy on natural resources and the environment.
  9. Explain the benefits and limitations of concurrent use of renewable energy projects on agricultural lands.
  10. Describe the landscape of renewable energy across various regions of the world, including strengths and challenges.
  11. Explain the barriers to transitioning to renewable energy and identify solutions to these barriers.
  12. Define Energy Justice, and describe its connection to environmental justice and climate justice.
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