Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

United States

Lay-Person Tasks

• Find out what corporations cause climate change, and do your best to not support them.
• Be supportive of solutions for climate change. Climate change is caused by corporations. Once corporations have stopped causing climate change, it will be up to individuals to support solutions.
• Be willing to vote for or support climate change policy solutions, even if it’s radical in comparison to current policies. Also be willing to support it even if it will be temporarily inconvenient or goes against your culture.
• Be willing to have the city planning of your community, neighborhood, and city radically changed to be climate friendly. Solar punk designs, changes in transportation, etc.

Informational Resources

• Database of organizations doing harmful climate lobbying. https://fminus.org/#database
• Climate Data, not specific to climate change. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/
• Omniago Found by @Michael2. Omniago is a website and climate activist platform where you can write articles related to climate change, or explore learn about climate change. Signing up is required to make a post. You can vote on articles with a simple like/dislike system. https://omniago.com/
• Originally posted in Climate Change Prevention Group: https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/7/15749900/how-to-stop-climate-change-actions
• Visualizing the Flow of Energy-Related CO2 Emissions in the U.S.>Keywords: emissions, energy, article, transportation, industry https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-flow-of-energy-related-co2-emissions-in-the-us/
• "Our Changing Climate is a bi-weekly video essay series that investigates humanity's relationship to the natural world. " On youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/OurChangingClimate/about
• More ways to help that don’t require too much effort: https://klima.com/blog/5-surprising-ways-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/
• Global Carbon Project has information on green house emissions. https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
• Here’s their wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Carbon_Project
• Global Carbon Project Resource List: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/products/internetResources.htm
• Global Carbon Project Presentations, on a variety of topics. https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/products/presentations.htm
• https://climate.nasa.gov/ The solutions page isn’t great but has links to other interesting organizations.
• This is all the information on the united nations climate change plan. Lots of meeting documentation. https://unfccc.int/
• Here you can see a map of climate change initiatives: https://climateaction.unfccc.int/?_gl=1*1we9e4l*_ga*OTg4Nzc5Mjc3LjE3MDYzNTY0NDQ.*_ga_7ZZWT14N79*MTcwNjM1NjQ0Ni4xLjEuMTcwNjM1NjUzNi4wLjAuMA..
• This is the Race to Zero Campaign: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/race-to-zero-campaign#Minimum-criteria-required-for-participation-in-the-Race-to-Zero-campaign
• UN's carbon Offset page: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/united-nations-carbon-offset-platform
• Are you looking for global political progress and power mapping on climate solutions? This is it: https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/NWPStaging/Pages/Home.aspx
• Climate Change Q&A https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11xvbi1/i_write_the_washington_posts_climate_coach_column/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Flows

• Cheese caves. We need to eliminate the dairy industry, as cows have a large carbon footprint.

Systems & Archetypes

• Capitalism Is Destroying Us – The New Climate Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRtNGW9Ajk
• Why Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxP2TzYcNw

Stock-and-flow structures

• How Finland Cut Emissions, and capitalism interfered: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dbp1bg/

Flows GreenHouse Gas Emissions:

• Burning fossil fuels for electricity and heat (25%)
• Coal (9%)
• Natural gas (6%)
• Oil (10%)
• Agriculture and deforestation (24%)
• Livestock and manure (5%)
• Rice cultivation (2%)
• Land use changes (6%)
• Deforestation (11%)
• Industry (21%)
• Cement production (4%)
• Steel production (3%)
• Oil refining (3%)
• Chemicals and petrochemicals (11%)
• Transportation (14%)
• Cars (8%)
• Trucks (3%)
• Airplanes (2%)
• Shipping (1%)
• Buildings (6%)
• Residential heating and cooking (4%)
• Commercial heating, cooking and lighting (2%)
• Other (10%)
• Waste disposal (2%)
• Fugitive emissions (3%)
• Other process emissions (5%)

Potential Organizations

• This is a map of equitable climate justice organizations, mostly led by women of color, working on climate change. https://thesolutionsproject.org/our-grantees/meet-our-grantees/

Informational Resources

• This is a class on the climate change strategies from Project Drawdown https://drawdown.org/drawdown-roadmap?_gl=1*cqhxq*_ga*ODQwMDcyODkyLjE2OTMwMTQ0MTI.*_ga_V2L85CVHH4*MTY5MzAxNDQxMS4xLjEuMTY5MzAxNDkxNC42MC4wLjA.
• This is a library of solutions on climate change, from Project Draw Down https://drawdown.org/solutions?_gl=1*1x6xp32*_ga*ODQwMDcyODkyLjE2OTMwMTQ0MTI.*_ga_V2L85CVHH4*MTY5MzAxNDQxMS4xLjEuMTY5MzAxNDk5NS42MC4wLjA.
• Climate Action Tracker provides data, reports, news, and blog posts on climate change. https://climateactiontracker.org/
• Climate Action Tracker has information on the progress and history of each country regarding climate change.
• https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/
• https://climate.nasa.gov/ Has climate news, evidence, and interactive data.

Resources

• Resources for activists: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/activist-resources
• Resources for science advocates: https://www.ucsusa.org/science-network/build-skills

TikTok

• Composting. Food waste in landfills causes significant greenhouse emissions. Composting can help with this. https://www.tiktok.com/@compostfairy

Paradigms

• BP invented the propaganda term “carbon footprint” to place emissions on individuals, rather than corporations. “Keep America Beautiful” is also a propaganda movement created by the Petroleum Industry. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dbE8J2/

Rules

• This is an entire page of action steps and pre-written letters you can send to congress. https://www.ucsusa.org/take-action

• MIT's climate policy simulator used to order its climate policies from least impactful to most impactful. You can see the results here. https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/unsupported.html En-ROADS, Originally shared in STEM NEST. This is a climate change simulator that lets you make up your own scenario and get feedback on what might happen. Link: https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/en-roads/

• Sunrise Movement: Green New Deal (Source) https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/b49xgi/how_to_get_involved_with_a_local_group_to_create/

• Citizens Climate Lobby- revenue-neutral carbon tax and dividend bill, H.R. 763

• clean energy permitting reform

• https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/513 (Intro)

• https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/512 (Advanced)

• Willow Project Law Suit: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT822n1H5/

Information Flows

• This is how scientists can engage in advocacy: https://ucs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/science-network/10-paths-for-scientist-engagement-and-advocacy.pdf

Stock-and-flow structures

• Vegetal canopies
• Liquid tree! These are a looot of maintenance, and use a lot of water. Probably only best in an area that is close to an ocean or something. Liquid trees use algae! Could this Algae be used for bio-plastics? Could water could be taken from, ex, the ocean, used in the liquid trees, then when maintenance happens use desalination for water?
• https://worldbiomarketinsights.com/a-liquid-tree-scientists-in-serbia-make-incredible-innovation/ Liquid trees could be used in cities and areas that can’t have trees but have some source of water. Planting trees is bad in areas such as deserts, since carbon is stored differently. There could be different shapes for liquid trees as well. Could any of these be options?
• https://youtu.be/gIqBb0SN5Bs?feature=shared
• Could be used as benches, on the sides of buildings, maybe incentivze people to have one at home, maybe even used as a moat to stop creeping ground fires.

Flows

• Giant sails on cargo ships can reduce carbon emissions.

Numbers

• Carbon cashback