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== Project Drawdown ==
== Carbon literacy ==


*[https://www.drawdown.org/ Drawdown], 100 solutions to reverse global warming
Carbon Literacy is the awareness of [[climate change]] and the climate impacts of mankind's everyday actions. The term has been used in a range of contexts in scientific literature and in casual usage, but is most associated with The Carbon Literacy Project. {{W|Carbon_literacy}}
 
=== The Carbon Literacy Project ===
The term Carbon Literacy had been used informally on a number of earlier occasions, but began to gain prominence in 2009 when it emerged in the development of the climate change action plan for [[Manchester]], Manchester: A Certain Future.
 
This citizen-written plan pledged the UK's second largest urban area to:
 
*Reduce the city of Manchester’s emissions of carbon dioxide by 41% by 2020, from 2005 levels.
*To engage all individuals, neighbourhoods and organisations in Manchester in a process of cultural change that embeds ‘low-carbon thinking’ into the lifestyles and operations of the city.
 
In 2015, The Carbon Literacy Project was selected from a global field to be part of the Transformative Actions Program (TAP) at the UN Climate Change summit (COP21) in Paris, December 2015. The Carbon Literacy Project is therefore formally recognised as one of the top 100 responses the world has to offer in order to tackle climate change. {{W|Carbon_literacy#The_Carbon_Literacy_Project_(CLP)}}
 
=== Research ===
 
The use of the term ‘carbon literacy’ is increasingly widespread in everyday language and scientific literature, and includes (i) research that specifically evaluates Carbon Literacy and The Carbon Literacy Project, and (ii) the use of the term 'carbon literacy' in a more abstract sense.
 
Behavioural responses to climate change are limited due to the uncertainty and complexity associated with the subject. Current research focuses on the need for societal engagement in the mitigation of climate change, through an increase of understanding amongst citizens, organisations, schools and public bodies due to the uncertainty and complexity associated with the subject. Dissemination of Carbon Literacy training (which includes the causes and consequences of carbon emissions, and an understanding of the power of individual action) has been shown to qualitatively influence positive behaviour change with regard to reducing carbon footprints. Following CL training, energy and carbon-saving behaviour (including both individual and collective actions) has been shown to increase, including evidence of the ‘cascade effect’–where participants discussed CL with family, friends or colleagues.
 
Other studies conducted over the last two decades refer to the abstract concept of 'carbon literacy', and its importance in low-carbon behaviour change. {{W|Carbon_literacy#Research}}
 
== Open CO2 ==
 
Open CO2 is a project to help crowdsource open carbon accounts for local communities worldwide. It can also be about carbon literacy, encouraging ourselves to learn more about what the available data might show.
Open local carbon accounts would help make possible [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]. ''See separate article:'' [[Open CO2]]
 
[[File:PurpleLondon004.jpg|left]]<br clear=left>


Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project initiated by Paul Hawken and climate activist Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Central to the project is the compilation of a list of the “100 most substantive solutions to global warming.” The list, encompassing only technologically viable, existing solutions, was compiled by a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists; for each solution the carbon impact through the year 2050, the total and net cost to society, and the total lifetime savings were measured and modelled.
== Participatory carbon budgeting ==


Paul Hawken has edited the book Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming to support the Project. {{W|Drawdown (climate)}}
The idea is to combine two other ideas: participatory budgeting {{W|Participatory budgeting}} and a carbon budget for an area, typically a large town or city. ''See separate article:'' [[Participatory carbon budgeting]]


== Natural climate solutions ==
== Natural climate solutions ==
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[https://www.naturalclimate.solutions/ Natural Climate Solutions]
[https://www.naturalclimate.solutions/ Natural Climate Solutions]
== Emissions Reduction Community based currency schemes ==
A community based emissions reduction currency scheme is a C4 type local currency in which local currency issues are backed by the emissions reductions of the schemes members. The local currency, when accepted for trade by other members or local businesses, thereby rewards participants for their efforts at global warming prevention. These currencies may have various degrees of convertibility into carbon saved, renewable energy, or national currency. {{W|Emissions Reduction Currency System#Community based currency schemes}}
== Other climate change solutions ==
*ending subsidies for fossil fuels
*ending laws mandating car use
*meat pricing, see also [[Food activism]]
*animal husbandry
*[[Renewable energy]], see also [[Community energy]]
*[[Circular economy]]
*[[Sustainable transport]], see also [[Sustainable transport activism]]
*[[Passive House]], [[Passive solar design]]


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== News and comment ==
== News and comment ==
'''2020'''
'''Feb 12''' Planting Trees Won’t Save the World, By Erle C. Ellis, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis. The authors are scientists. <ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/opinion/trump-climate-change-trees.html nytimes.com]</ref>
[[File:Amsterdam1.jpg|240px|left]]
'''Feb 7''' [[Netherlands]]: Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2020/2/8/sea-rangers-socially-beneficial thealternative.org.uk]</ref><br clear=all>
'''Jan 29''' I pioneered the four-day week – now policymakers must adopt it to fight the climate crisis, Andrew Barnes <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/i-pioneered-the-4-day-week-now-it-must-be-used-to-fight-the-climate-crisis theguardian.com]</ref>
[[File:Greywolf1.jpg|140px|left]]
A [[Europe]]an tour of climate solutions <ref>[https://the-beam.com/cities/a-european-tour-of-climate-solutions/ the-beam.com], ''date not found''</ref><br clear=all>
[[File:Cyclists riding in Melbourne for 350 Climate Action.jpg|140px|left]]
'''Jan 8''' [[Australia news]]: Make Australia green again <ref>[https://ecohustler.com/nature/make-australia-green-again @ecohustler]</ref><br clear=all>
[[File:Römerberg houses on the west side.jpg|140px|left]]
'''Jan 2''' [[Germany]] cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/germany-cuts-fares-for-long-distance-rail-travel-in-response-to-climate-crisis The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all>


'''2019'''
'''2019'''
[[File:Greenwich park drawing1.jpg|140px|left]]
'''Nov 20''' [[Climate change solutions UK]]: Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2019/11/20/self-authoring-communities The Alternative UK]</ref>
'''Nov 13''' [[Climate change solutions UK]]: Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2019/11/16/climate-election-polls-yougov The Alternative UK]</ref><br clear=all>
'''Oct 28''' Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will <ref>[http://theconversation.com/technology-will-not-save-us-from-climate-change-but-imagining-new-forms-of-society-will-124364 theconversation.com]</ref>
'''Oct 9''' Cross-sector ‘third spaces’ incubate social, climate solutions <ref>[https://www.shareable.net/cross-sector-third-spaces-incubate-social-climate-solutions/ Shareable]</ref>
== Resources ==
=== Networks ===
*[https://www.rapidtransition.org/ Rapid Transition Alliance], Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. Rapid transition shows examples of evidence-based hope for change whose speed and potential scale will steer us towards staying within those boundaries and which advance social justice. Content published under a Creative Commons license. ''added 14:52, 22 January 2020 (UTC)''
=== Research ===
==== Project Drawdown ====
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*[https://www.drawdown.org/ Drawdown], 100 solutions to reverse global warming
Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project initiated by Paul Hawken and climate activist Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Central to the project is the compilation of a list of the “100 most substantive solutions to global warming.” The list, encompassing only technologically viable, existing solutions, was compiled by a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists; for each solution the carbon impact through the year 2050, the total and net cost to society, and the total lifetime savings were measured and modelled.
Paul Hawken has edited the book Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming to support the Project. {{W|Drawdown (climate)}}


== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Climate change solutions UK]]
*[[Climate action#Carbon literacy|Carbon literacy]]
*[[Climate action]], [[Climate news]]
*[[Climate action]], [[Climate news]]
*[[Measures to stop global warming]], [[:Category:Climate change mitigation]]
*[[Measures to stop global warming]], [[:Category:Climate change mitigation]]
*[[Carbon offset]]


== Interwiki links ==
== Interwiki links ==
 
Carbon price {{W|Carbon price}}, Passivhaus {{W|Passivhaus}}


== External links ==
== External links ==


=== United Kingdom ===
*Ten bold Ideas [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d30896202a18c0001b49180/t/5d9c86f8a4bd392d8c56c547/1570539338734/Ten+Bold+Ideas] from [https://www.wearepossible.org/ Possible]




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Revision as of 17:21, 5 March 2020

Carbon literacy

Carbon Literacy is the awareness of climate change and the climate impacts of mankind's everyday actions. The term has been used in a range of contexts in scientific literature and in casual usage, but is most associated with The Carbon Literacy Project. W

The Carbon Literacy Project

The term Carbon Literacy had been used informally on a number of earlier occasions, but began to gain prominence in 2009 when it emerged in the development of the climate change action plan for Manchester, Manchester: A Certain Future.

This citizen-written plan pledged the UK's second largest urban area to:

  • Reduce the city of Manchester’s emissions of carbon dioxide by 41% by 2020, from 2005 levels.
  • To engage all individuals, neighbourhoods and organisations in Manchester in a process of cultural change that embeds ‘low-carbon thinking’ into the lifestyles and operations of the city.

In 2015, The Carbon Literacy Project was selected from a global field to be part of the Transformative Actions Program (TAP) at the UN Climate Change summit (COP21) in Paris, December 2015. The Carbon Literacy Project is therefore formally recognised as one of the top 100 responses the world has to offer in order to tackle climate change. W

Research

The use of the term ‘carbon literacy’ is increasingly widespread in everyday language and scientific literature, and includes (i) research that specifically evaluates Carbon Literacy and The Carbon Literacy Project, and (ii) the use of the term 'carbon literacy' in a more abstract sense.

Behavioural responses to climate change are limited due to the uncertainty and complexity associated with the subject. Current research focuses on the need for societal engagement in the mitigation of climate change, through an increase of understanding amongst citizens, organisations, schools and public bodies due to the uncertainty and complexity associated with the subject. Dissemination of Carbon Literacy training (which includes the causes and consequences of carbon emissions, and an understanding of the power of individual action) has been shown to qualitatively influence positive behaviour change with regard to reducing carbon footprints. Following CL training, energy and carbon-saving behaviour (including both individual and collective actions) has been shown to increase, including evidence of the ‘cascade effect’–where participants discussed CL with family, friends or colleagues.

Other studies conducted over the last two decades refer to the abstract concept of 'carbon literacy', and its importance in low-carbon behaviour change. W

Open CO2

Open CO2 is a project to help crowdsource open carbon accounts for local communities worldwide. It can also be about carbon literacy, encouraging ourselves to learn more about what the available data might show. Open local carbon accounts would help make possible Participatory carbon budgeting. See separate article: Open CO2

PurpleLondon004.jpg

Participatory carbon budgeting

The idea is to combine two other ideas: participatory budgeting W and a carbon budget for an area, typically a large town or city. See separate article: Participatory carbon budgeting

Natural climate solutions

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Natural Climate Solutions

Emissions Reduction Community based currency schemes

A community based emissions reduction currency scheme is a C4 type local currency in which local currency issues are backed by the emissions reductions of the schemes members. The local currency, when accepted for trade by other members or local businesses, thereby rewards participants for their efforts at global warming prevention. These currencies may have various degrees of convertibility into carbon saved, renewable energy, or national currency. W

Other climate change solutions

Greenwich park drawing1.jpg

News and comment

2020

Feb 12 Planting Trees Won’t Save the World, By Erle C. Ellis, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis. The authors are scientists. [1]

Amsterdam1.jpg

Feb 7 Netherlands: Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers [2]

Jan 29 I pioneered the four-day week – now policymakers must adopt it to fight the climate crisis, Andrew Barnes [3]

Greywolf1.jpg

A European tour of climate solutions [4]

Cyclists riding in Melbourne for 350 Climate Action.jpg

Jan 8 Australia news: Make Australia green again [5]

Römerberg houses on the west side.jpg

Jan 2 Germany cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis [6]

2019

Greenwich park drawing1.jpg

Nov 20 Climate change solutions UK: Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too [7]

Nov 13 Climate change solutions UK: Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so [8]

Oct 28 Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will [9]

Oct 9 Cross-sector ‘third spaces’ incubate social, climate solutions [10]

Resources

Networks

  • Rapid Transition Alliance, Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. Rapid transition shows examples of evidence-based hope for change whose speed and potential scale will steer us towards staying within those boundaries and which advance social justice. Content published under a Creative Commons license. added 14:52, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Research

Project Drawdown

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  • Drawdown, 100 solutions to reverse global warming

Project Drawdown is a climate change mitigation project initiated by Paul Hawken and climate activist Amanda Joy Ravenhill. Central to the project is the compilation of a list of the “100 most substantive solutions to global warming.” The list, encompassing only technologically viable, existing solutions, was compiled by a team of over 200 scholars, scientists, policymakers, business leaders and activists; for each solution the carbon impact through the year 2050, the total and net cost to society, and the total lifetime savings were measured and modelled.

Paul Hawken has edited the book Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming to support the Project. W

See also

Interwiki links

Carbon price W, Passivhaus W

External links


References

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