The role of climate change education on individual lifetime carbon emissions

used in a number of school districts in California, and studies examining changes in student attitudes and behavior will be reported in the future. Supporting information S1 Text. Survey instrument used for the graduates of the COMM 168 course. (DOCX) S2 Text. Procedure for estimating reductions in carbon emissions from the survey responses. (DOCX) S3 Text. Focus group protocol. (DOCX) S4 Text. COMM 168 syllabus. (PDF) Acknowledgments We are grateful to the students involved in this study for their time and participation, and Dr. Elizabeth Walsh for her helpful suggestions on our data analysis. We also thank Liz Palfreyman for her help in gathering some of the student demographic data. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Eugene C. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd. Formal analysis: Diana Centeno. Funding acquisition: Eugene C. Cordero. Investigation: Eugene C. Cordero. Methodology: Eugene C. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd. Project administration: Eugene C. Cordero. Supervision: Eugene C. Cordero. Writing – original draft: Eugene C. Cordero. Writing – review & editing: Diana Centeno, Anne Marie Todd. References 1. United Nations. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. New York: United Nations, General Assembly; 1992. 2. Læssøe J, Mochizuki Y. Recent trends in national policy on education for sustainable development and climate change education. J Educ Sustain Dev. 2015; 9: 27–43. 3. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO strategy for the

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