Name: 8 Things You Can Do About Climate Change Now
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T19:32:49.000Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s
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- All of us can play a powerful and engaged part at this,

the most pivotal moment in human history.

first as a negotiator of the Climate Convention

and then undertaking several responsibilities

including delivering the Paris Agreement in 2015.

I was the head of political strategy for the Paris Agreement

and I've continued to collaborate with her ever since.

We run a podcast together called Outrage and Optimism

and we recently co-authored the book "The Future We Choose."

- The book is meant to be a helpful guide

Yes, of course, we need systemic policies

and financial investments that are also going to help,

as well as individual behavior changes, we need both.

Every one of us should know what our carbon footprint is.

Usually we check our bank account at least once a week

to know how we're doing on our bank account.

We should also know how we're doing on our carbon account.

And if you don't know what your carbon footprint is,

You go to Google, you type in carbon calculator,

and up comes a long list of carbon calculators

that have been put out by many reputable institutions.

Every one of us should know what our starting line is.

Some of us will have a higher footprint than others,

don't condemn yourself for having a high footprint,

The important thing is not where we start,

because they will already indicate to you

where you can reduce your carbon footprint.

that was separated from us by a timeline.

but we're already seeing continents burning.

Australia has burned with half a billion animals lost,

the Amazon has been on fire, California, the Arctic.

These are early signs and this is just gonna get worse

Getting on top of it means that we need to be at net zero

then temperature rise will go beyond 1.5 degrees

and what will happen is the climate of the planet

and we will lose the ability to have any impact on this

That's the nightmare scenario that we need to avoid,

so to get there, we need to halve emissions

50% less than they are right now by 2030.

After that, we need to be at net zero as soon as possible,

Those are the decades we have, no one else is gonna do this.

if it's gonna be successful or if it's gonna be a failure,

If we think about our footprint in a 10-year timeframe,

That 10-year period will probably encompass

in the capital-intensive items of your life.

they'll come from a car or a furnace or something like that,

So thinking about it in that slightly longer timeframe

gives you a chance to kind of make different decisions

when those big capital-intensive investments come up.

- You can also be much more mindful about our transport,

whether it's by land or by air or maritime.

is that maybe we don't need to transport ourselves as much

Maybe we actually do much more telecommuting

- I mean, who knew that we would get a chance

But what's amazing is we've seen an unprecedented transition

Much of our work can carry on engaging remotely.

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