Environmental Science (ENVS 101) Climate, Energy, and Policy Study Guide
University of Colorado Boulder
Environmental Science (ENVS 101) | Study Guide

Overview
A study guide on climate systems, energy use, emissions, policy choices, and sustainability tradeoffs across environmental science topics.

Key topics
•climate system basics
•energy sources and tradeoffs
•emissions and impacts
•policy responses

Suggested study tasks
•compare one mitigation and one adaptation strategy
•explain one feedback loop
•trace a policy choice to an environmental outcome

Common pitfalls
•treating climate and pollution as identical topics
•ignoring uncertainty and scale when comparing solutions