In this lecture
- Write a defensible climate rationale
- Distinguish causal claims from correlated ones
- Handle a project that would have happened anyway
The chain a reviewer follows
A climate rationale has to connect an intervention to a climate outcome by steps someone else can check, not assert. This lecture rewrites a weak rationale - 'this project supports climate resilience' - into a chain of specific, checkable claims, and shows what each rewrite was fixing.
Projects that were worth doing anyway
A project is not disqualified for being sensible on its own merits. What matters is stating plainly what the climate finance specifically buys beyond what would have happened regardless - the increment, not the whole project, is the rationale's job to defend.
Materials
Yours to keep, and usable away from the platform.
- Climate rationale worksheetWorksheet · 94 KB
Design prototype - the attachments are placeholders and nothing downloads yet.
Lecture quiz
4 questions, plus 2 written questions at the end - taken whenever you are ready. This is what unlocks the next lecture.