Further Instructions to Help you for the Country Report/Brief: A policy brief is

Further Instructions to Help you for the Country Report/Brief:
A policy brief is a concise summary of a particular issue. For our purposes, it will be a summary of the current state of climate change policy in a particular country, state, or region that you have selected to study. It is aimed at government policymakers, scientists, interested parties who want to influence policy and create changes in society.
The format of the brief should be about four (4)-double spaced pages (1000 – 1250 words). It may have one or more charts or graphs. It should have a few sections: 1) an objective section that gives balanced information for the current state of climate change and global warming in the country, state, region that you have selected including a survey of basic data; 2) an advocacy section arguing in favor a particular course of action (as if you were hired to help your selected country, state, region). Please also include a Title and a Works Cited page along with any photographs, graphs, charts, and pictures as evidence.
Your brief should have enough background for the reader to understand the historical narrative for the past several decades; evidence/data to support the current state of affairs; evidence/data to convince or persuade readers that the problem must be addressed in terms of your recommendations; and some rhetoric/motive to stimulate the reader to make a decision. Alternative solutions can also be provided in the advocacy section.
In Part 1 where you need to be concise/brief/to the point: Identify the Country’s including its geography (including desert environments, coastal, mountain, average temperatures), World Heritage and/or Natural Heritage, GDP, population demographics, and with an overall assessment of its political views, bilateral relations, people-to-people links, economic overview, trade and investment, and any recent high level visits from other countries, nations, peoples. Again, keep it brief but no ‘mindless-writing’ to fill up the pages, so be sure to include key information to help build your argument.
Identify the Country’s climate change policies: Is it part of the Paris Agreement? Is it not? Why not? What are its own in country agreement? When did it ratify any agreements? Any bilateral agreements for climate and environment? What role does it play with the United Nations? And other organizations (International, locally)?
What are some of its goals to reduce carbon emissions? What are some of its goals to lower the temperature globally?
Identify any other pertinent information related to climate change and the country you have selected.
In Part 2 you should: Identify the individual and specific climate change problems for your country. Use your selected/curated solid data and any recent evidence drawn from your sources to advocate solutions to the current situation. What are the effects of the current situation? Why did it happen? How can it be solved? How long will it take to solve? Whom or what are the obstacles to solving it? Give specific examples.
Relate locally to the bigger narrative around the world globally in the penultimate paragraph before your final summary concluding paragraph.