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 climatecrisis 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.

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.