How to Stop Climate Change (Systems Change not Climate Change Ep 6)

This episode outlines the various ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in pursuit of preventing a 1.5°C increase.

Timestamps:

1:27 - The overall solution

2:05 - What is a climate model?

3:18 - 1.5 to stay alive

4:23 - How to reduce emissions

6:20 - Nature as a solution

7:20 - Carbon sequestration

9:55 - Going net-zero

10:26 - Not just solutions to climate change

12:02 - The puzzle of climate change

Key questions:

• What needs to happen to stop climate catastrophe?
  
• How does nature help us in stopping climate change?
  
• What are the alternatives to releasing emissions, why are they appealing?
  

Additional materials:

IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC (Summary) https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15_SPM_version_report_LR.pdf

Climate solutions

https://drawdown.org/solutions

One million climate jobs

http://aidc.org.za/download/climate-change/OMCJ-booklet-AIDC-electronic-version.pdf

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security https://www.tni.org/en/article/miguel-altieri-on-agroecology-and-why-it-is-the-solution-to-hunger-and-food-security

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