Alternative Ways to Help With the 2025 Goals: Industries, Businesses
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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 Governments
Advocacy for Energy Suppliers
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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 do 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. And 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?
Read over something (e.g. the “practice reduced food waste” section) and think of ways you could potentially apply it through %s
Search online for government incentives for building fixtures & fittings like solar panels that will lower energy prices for you
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
Encouraging the whole world to do 5 per week if safe and ethical, e.g. secretly/ through printing, if needed
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
%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
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
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
Tasks for governments and larger organizations could potentially do could be things like 4 to 7 %s forward per week problem solving how to long-term advertise 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).
1 Advocacy for All Types of Businesses (where it’s safe and ethical)
Level 1 (the hows of how businesses could do this)
Join the Race to Zero global campaign that is rallying support from business, cities, regions, and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.
Understand your exposure to climate risk and please take precautions ahead of time
Capitalize on government incentives that can help you lower your average energy usage
Re-organize these 5 levels of potential tasks according to what you can do sooner and what you think is more important (e.g. larger points in Project Drawdown)
Print this off so you can make notes or cross off what you’ve done
Embrace the opportunities associated with resource efficiency, renewable energy and that a transition to renewable energy will create across your supply chains
Join a local or national organization supporting forest and peatlands habitat conservation and restoration
Level 2 (the hows of how businesses could do this)
Monitor and reduce your company’s energy usage and strive for energy efficiency; Audit the energy use and resource efficiency of your operations to identify cost-effective high-impact reductions
Assess and reduce your energy use, climate change emissions, sustainability, environmental emissions
Please be careful with employee’s comfort and wellbeing, especially around temperature, so that they can be productive and will stay at your company for longer
Have a read of the categories in Project Drawdown’s 100 solutions, and if any of these are relevant to you. For example, recycling technology, alternative refrigerants, solar photovoltaics, energy storage, electricity/ building improvements might be relevant to you
Switch to rail for the transportation of raw materials
Embrace video conferencing for meetings and conferences
Arrange for flexible and staggered working arrangements
Divest holdings in fossil fuel companies
Educate your consumers and clients about sustainability
Level 3 (the hows of how businesses could do this)
Integrate corporate food loss and waste strategies across your company, including by making it easier for consumers and employees to limit their food waste- this is one of the largest solutions out of Project Drawdown’s 100 solutions
Create a corporate commitment to halve food loss and waste by 2030
Work with suppliers and clients to find solutions that reduce food loss and waste across the supply chain, targeting waste hotspots like weak links in the supply chain
Measure and report company food loss and waste
Set up processes for surplus food rescue to transfer healthy, uneaten food to services who can distribute it to those in need
Encourage diets that reduce 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.
Level 4 (the hows of how businesses could do this)
Consider overlaps between making your supply chain climate resilient and restoring forests and ecosystems, and make it happen.
Work with suppliers to find collaborative solutions to minimize ecosystem impacts across the supply chain
Promote investments in deforestation-free supply chains and peatlands drainage-free supply chains.
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.
Level 5 (the hows of how businesses could do this)
Make long-term sustainability a core part of your business and investment practices
Set decarbonization and net-zero carbon targets
Switch fleets to electric vehicles
Be a leader in sustainable industrial practices
Be a leader in sustainable and low-carbon practices
Scale up research and development to create new options for low-carbon industrial processes
Make your products and processes so that it is a lot easier for customers and employees to reduce, reuse, repair and recycle your products
2 Advocacy for the Farming Industry
Asking farmers to check if they can apply these would be really helpful- a number of these provide sizable financial win/wins.
At the same time, asking farmers to first prioritize world food supply (prices) and fertilizer- apparently fertilizer 4x food production and is really needed.
Finding overall and specific things (e.g. some are for specific types of farmers)
For crop farmers
Perennial Staple Crops 32.87
Tree Intercropping 24.40
Multistrata Agroforestry 23.94
Bamboo Production 19.60
Improved Rice Production 14.43
Nutrient Management 11.48
Biomass Power 3.59
Biochar Production 3.00
For animal farmers
Silvo Pasture 42.31
Managed Grazing 20.92
Improved Cattle Feed 15.05
For sea farmers
Seaweed Farming 4.72
Improved Fisheries 1.54
Improved Aquaculture 0.78
3 Advocacy for Food Industry People, including consumers
Measure and report company food loss and waste
Adopt a corporate commitment to halve food loss and waste by 2030
Work with suppliers and clients to find solutions that reduce food loss and waste across the supply chain, targeting waste hotspots like weak links in the cold chain
Integrate corporate food loss and waste strategies across your company, including by making it easier for consumers and employees to limit their food waste
Ask grocery stores, restaurants and hotels to tackle food loss and champion those who lead the way
Set up processes for surplus food rescue to transfer healthy, uneaten food to services who can distribute it to those in need
Share excess with services who can distribute it to the needy
Review packaging, provide clear storage and freezing guidance, eliminate ‘display until’ dates and clarify ‘best before’/’use-by’ dates
Avoid ‘Buy One Get One Free’ food promotions if they are likely to cause customers to buy more than they can eat
Repurpose extra-ripe foods in-store
4 Advocacy for Transport Industry People
Transport Industry
Efficient Trucks 10.77
Electric Cars 9.76
Efficient Aviation 5.82
Hybrid Cars 4.71
High-Speed Rail 3.62
Electric Trains 3.25
Electric Bicycles 1.55
Advocate for how to make electric vehicles cheaper, safer, what consumers need
Advocate for how to make electric vehicles more reliable (e.g. electrification of the transport sector would mean more recharging stations)
Advocate for e-mobility, non-emission transport and public transportation
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
Support local government initiatives to introduce better mass transit and non-motorized mobility infrastructure
Read the 6 Sector Solutions Reports or Stories, like the Global Fuel Economy Initiative Toolkit or What are passenger cars made of
5 Advocacy for Building Retrofitting & New Building Towards Profitable Net Zero
Buildings fixtures and fittings getting closer and closer (% by %) to net zero
Without numbers (although still really important)
Net-Zero Buildings - moving towards this, % by %
Most important
Refrigerant Management 57.15
Alternative Refrigerants 48.75
Insulation 18.54
LED Lighting 15.69
High-Performance Glass 11.34
Easier to apply
Solar Hot Water 13.73
Smart Thermostats 7.25
Low-Flow Fixtures 1.52
Remaining
District Heating 9.68
Green and Cool Roofs 0.99
Dynamic Glass 0.54
Micro Wind Turbines 0.11
Advocate for retrofitting policies
Advocate for climate change neutral buildings and cities
Advocate for climate change neutral building standards
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
6 Advocacy for Industry People
What are industry solutions (and %s of solutions) to make these cheaper, safer, easier to solve and applied in industries?
Refrigerant Management 57.15
Alternative Refrigerants 48.75
Alternative Cement 15.56
Recycled Metals 12.34
Recycling 11.29
Reduced Plastics 5.40
Waste to Energy – could be worse for health than other methods 5.24
Recycled Paper 2.90
Bioplastics 2.48
Recycled Plastics 1.69
Join the Race to Zero global campaign that is rallying support from business, cities, regions, and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery.
Read the 6 Sector Solution’s Reports, Stories and Resources, such as
Climate friendly cooling could cut years off emissions reductions
Advocate for renewable energy
Advocate for energy efficiency (where it’s comfortable enough for employees)
Advocate for climate action
Advocate 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
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.
