Alternative Ways to Help With the 2025 Goals: Citizens, the Environment, Governments

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What You Can Do

Help with safe & ethical advocacy for some or all of the categories- they are:

  • Advocacy for the Environment

  • Advocacy for Energy Suppliers

  • Advocacy for Governments

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Advocacy for Industries:

  • All Businesses

  • Farming Industry

  • Food Industry People, including consumers

  • Transport Industry

  • Building Retrofitting & New Buildings

  • Other types of Industries



What You Can Do

When there are a total of 600-650 recommendations in Project Drawdown and the 6 Sector Solution, what is an effective and efficient way for citizens to do their part with preventing climate change?

A really helpful way for citizens to approach this is to find 5 tasks you “could potentially do” each week to prevent climate change (preferably tasks of higher importance for preventing climate change in Project Drawdown) and to allocate a certain amount of time each week for attempting them, around your personal circumstances/energy that week (anything between 10 minutes and 10 hours per week- e.g. 1-2 hours).

This is a fairly easy and really helpful way that citizens can help with doing their part with preventing climate change. To do this secretly, you could print off (double sided) the list of 650 items or Project Drawdown and remember to ethically, safely be careful. You don’t have to achieve all 5 each week- it’s about trying a number of %s within the allocated time.

You could do this as the largest part of your 4-12 %s and you can definitely include environmental things in the 5 if you think they’re urgent or important enough.

(However, if you install solar panels, please make sure that you spend at least 1-2 hours researching online how hundreds of these look on different roofs, how exactly they will look on your roof, where exactly they should be placed, your unique cost-benefit ratio around this.)

What are areas that someone “could potentially do” in a week?

  1. Read over something (e.g. the “practice reduced food waste” section) and think of ways you could potentially apply it through %s

  2. Search online for government incentives for building fixtures & fittings like solar panels that will lower energy prices for you

  3. Scroll down all the way to get a quick overview of what the 8 billion are supposed to do (according to some of the best resources available) with a special focus on Project Drawdown’s bolded solutions and safe and ethical %s that could help with this

  4. Encouraging the whole world to do 5 per week if safe and ethical, e.g. secretly/ through printing, if needed

  5. Go over some of the advocacy categories and understand how (safe and ethical) advocacy for these could happen, e.g. read over these and ask how can I safely and ethically encourage these

  6. %s that ethically, safely prevent tipping points would be really helpful, because once tipping points are reached, they act as huge accelerants for climate change disasters

  7. Any climate change disaster adaptation actions that you could do (e.g. reading information about climate adaptation actions like preparing your area) would be a good idea

  8. Because most of the world is supposed to be achieving 100 climate change actions, if there are any ways to encourage other people to (safely and ethically) write down and attempt 5 things each week, then climate change might be prevented

  9. Things that governments and large organizations could potentially do could be 4 to 7 %s forward per week like problem solving how to long-term advertise current incentives for rooftop solar/ plant-rich diets/ reduced food waste, Start working with the energy industry to figure out what problems they have with the goals and what they would like help with to achieve them in a way that protects prices, Emailing the food industry and asking them to review potential food waste areas for the government, Asking the farming industry if they could do industry-wide help sheets on climate change practices (but at the same time to ask farmers to prioritize the quantity of food supply and their own profitability).

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1 What You Could Do

2 Help with safe & ethical advocacy for some or all of the categories- they are:

  • Advocacy for the Environment

  • Advocacy for Energy Suppliers

  • Advocacy for Governments

The above is a summary of what is in UNEP’s 6 Sector Solution and Project Drawdown.

Please see the next page for a summary of the business methods they mentioned.

What You Could Do

1 Food solutions

Have a look at the huge numbers to the right of the first two Project Drawdown categories- if you go to Project Drawdown’s 100 best climate change to dos, these are the 3rd and 4th largest... Worldwide food choices and behaviors are a huge part of the 2025 and 2030 goals.

  • Advocate for waste reduction

  • Advocate for nature-based agriculture

  • For example, encourage your politicians to propose ambitious regulation, push for and support policies, speak up in your organizations, talk to friends, attend or arrange events or communities, join a local, national or international organization

  • Shop seasonally and locally when possible

  • Adopt a diet that reduces forest habitat loss and degradation purchasing products with deforestation-free ingredients, when possible

  • Buy only what you can eat or save: Plan meals, write shopping lists, use portion-sizing tools for rice and pasta and cook with leftovers, embrace ugly fruit and vegetables, store food to maximize freshness, including by freezing food when appropriate if possible

  • Read some of the reports and stories in the 6 Sector Solution, such as How to feed 10 billion people, Transforming global food systems, 10 things you should know about industrial farming, and Legislative approaches for sustainable agriculture and natural resources government

 

2 Encouraging these

Safely and ethically encouraging these internationally would help with climate change impacts. Part of this is the solution to prices- while clean cooking not only helps climate change, the environment and people’s health, it costs more for a lot of poor people. So ways to help make these cheaper would be really appreciated.

  • >>> Tipping points- e.g. the Amazon- this should be #1. Tipping points are accelerants- once they’re reached, they act as huge accelerants for climate change problems

  • Family Planning and Education 68.90

  • Clean Cooking 76.34

  • Help with safe & ethical advocacy for some or all of the categories- they are:

    • Advocacy for Industries (All Businesses, Farmers, Food Industry People, including consumers, Transport Industry, Building Retrofitting, New Buildings, Other Industries)

    • Advocacy for the Environment

    • Advocacy for Governments

    • Advocacy for Energy Suppliers & Governments

  • Join the United Nations ActNow campaign to take action on climate change

  • Read the 6 Sector Solutions Reports or Stories

  • Ask companies and governments for information about how they produce and source both goods and services; read up on their commitments to sustainable production and practices

  • Ask companies and government bodies for sustainable options

  • Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests

  • Divest from investments or pension funds investing in fossil fuels

3 Buildings fixtures and fittings getting closer and closer to net zero

There are a lot of these, so they have been shared between Level 1 and Level 5, where Level 1 is where people typically start from.

Level 1 

  • Understand how much energy you use and try to consume less of it

  • Find out where your home loses energy and take steps to address it

  • Understand a home’s energy efficiency before you buy or rent

  • Use energy that comes from renewable sources if possible- getting solar panels on your roof (distributed solar photovoltaics) is a particularly effective way to do this

  • If possible, choose utilities and operators committed to decarbonization and energy efficiency

  • Switch to LED lighting and understand efficiency performance when buying new appliances, especially air conditioners.

  • Use curtains and blinds to keep homes cooler and reduce the need for air conditioning

  • Regulate temperature by adding verandas, green roofs, high-inertia walls and bio-based insulation made from renewable or recyclable materials

  • Seal windows and doors, stop thermal bridges through insulation, install double-glazed doors and invest in heat pumps

 

Level 2

Level 3 

Level 4

4 Transport solutions

  • Join bike-, scooter- or car-sharing services

  • Buy electric vehicles and cars that use cleaner fuels

  • Choose rail over air and travel as little as possible

  • Reduce your commute by working from home

5 Recycling Solutions

  • Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle what you consume

  • Support companies that practice sustainable and circular practices; for example, patronize businesses that provide spare parts, offer take-back services to reclaim used goods and use recycled materials.

Advocacy for Protecting and Restoring the Environment 

  • >>> Tipping points should be #1- or rather, %s to ethically and safely prevent them. Most of this would be focusing on preventing specific tipping points, and on how to interpret and apply the 2025 goals.

  • Tipping points are accelerants- once they’re reached, they act as huge accelerants for climate change problems.

  • Advocacy against deforestation

  • Advocacy for tipping point forest’s protection and conservation

  • Advocacy for nature restoration

  • For example, encourage your politicians to propose ambitious regulation, push for and support policies, speak up in your organizations, talk to friends, attend or arrange events or communities, join a local, national or international organization

  • Read the 6 Sector Solution’s Reports, Stories and Resources, such as UN-REDD, the Green Gigaton Challenge, Financing sustainable land use, and Cote d’Ivoire’s forest friendly chocolate

Advocacy for Energy Suppliers

And advocacy to help problem solve this…

For example, coal, oil and gas suppliers should avoid closing until there are the same amount of renewables built to replace them, to protect Sustainable Development Goal number 7: Affordable Energy.

 

 

  • Advocacy for renewable energy and clean energy

  • Advocacy for energy efficiency

  • Advocacy for climate action

  • Advocacy to put a price on carbon

  • For example, encourage your politicians to propose ambitious regulation, push for and support policies, speak up in your organizations, talk to friends, attend or arrange events or communities, join a local, national or international organization

  • Read the 6 Sector Solution’s Reports, Stories and Resources, such as:

 

Advocacy for Governments (but only if it’s safe enough)

Join the Race to Zero global campaign that is rallying support from business, cities, regions, and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.

Supporting the different types of Industries with the challenges they deal with and with the resources they need to solve climate change

Project Drawdown’s 100 Solutions: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions

The 6 Sector Solutions: www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/

1 Overall (some of largest or with multiple benefits)

 

2 Ways to make these more affordable or well-known:

 

3 For Food and Reducing Food Waste

  • Measure food loss, create waste baselines and implement strategies to reduce food waste

  • Set and promote science-based targets to increase the availability and uptake of plant-rich diets, increase sustainable production and minimize food waste

  • Align national diet recommendations with climate goals

  • Inform consumers and producers about food choices and how to reduce food loss waste across the supply chain

  • Promote and support climate-smart and sustainable agriculture practices

4 For Energy Suppliers

  • Commit to more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions and energy transition strategies

  • Set national and sub-national decarbonization and net-zero carbon targets

  • Halt policies that support the fossil fuel industry, including excessive subsidies

  • Introduce policies that incentivize renewable energy and promote energy efficiency

 

5 For Industries

  • Impose and strengthen energy efficiency standards in industries

  • Price carbon — this will facilitate the drawdown of carbon-intensive technologies and promote more sustainable alternatives

  • Promote the use of efficient and renewable heating and cooling in industries

  • Incentivize and mandate less emissions of greenhouse gases, including cutting methane leaks

 

6 For Transport

  • Incentivize a transition to zero-emission transportation, including for cars, taxis, buses, trucks and trains

  • Invest in and remove barriers to non-motorized mobility infrastructure, like protected bicycle lanes or paths for pedestrians

  • Switch fleets to electric vehicles

  • Promote the significant public health benefits of low-carbon policies, including increased public transportation and non-motorized mobility

 

7 For Buildings

  • Retrofit public buildings

  • Plan cities for strategic density and mixed use of buildings and urban fabric, so that neighborhoods have the services they need at the local scale

  • Develop smart systems to integrate buildings, mobility and energy systems, including traffic management, distributed EV-charging and integrated planning processes

  • Integrate grey, blue and green infrastructure to manage resources and runoff with minimal impact to the environment

  • Invest in physical and market infrastructure to better link rural and urban producers and consumers

  • Promote the installation of solar panels, heat pumps, and heat storage technology

  • Incentivize the installation of central cooling and heating and the use of energy efficient lighting and appliances

  • Incentivize mini-grid solutions, district heating and cooling and waste to energy systems

  • Mainstream sustainable building within urban and rural planning

  • Set carbon-neutral building standards for new construction

  • Read relevant reports and articles such as:

  • 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

  • New toolkit helps countries switch to climate smart cities

 

8 For the Environment

  • The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It runs through 2030, which is also the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change.

  • Restore 150 million hectares of forests and other landscapes by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030 – the two primary goals of the Bonn Challenge

  • Halve tropical deforestation by 2025 and stop net deforestation by 2030 globally

  • Systematically monitor and evaluate the progress of conservation and restoration efforts

  • Stop policies and subsidies that incentivize deforestation and peatlands degradation and promote their restoration

  • Work with suppliers to find collaborative solutions to minimize ecosystem impacts across the supply chain

  • Invest in landscape conservation and restoration as part of net-zero emission efforts; investments must meet high social and environmental standards

  • Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests and peatlands.

  • Join a local or national organization supporting forest and peatlands habitat conservation and restoration

  • Promote investments in deforestation and peatlands drainage-free supply chains.

  • Promote diets that reduces forest habitat loss, peatlands drainage and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free and peatlands drainage-free ingredients, when possible.

 

Advocacy for All Types of Businesses (where it’s safe & ethical)

Level 1-5 (first things could do, next things could do)

  • In the next article

  • Join Race to Zero global campaign that is rallying support from business, cities, regions, and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.

The information on this page has been re-organized multiple times from Project Drawdown’s Climate Change Solutions www.drawdown.org/ solutions/table-of-solutions and the interactive Six Sector Solution: www.unep.org/interactive/ six-sector-solution-climate-change.

 
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