Climate Change Mitigation Strategies

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss some of their favourite Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

This video was recorded on January 21st, 2022, and published on February 12th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• One of the top 10 Project Drawdown mitigation strategies of educating women and girls.
• The importance of climate education and how governments should be involved in this process.
• The need for both the public and governments to mobilize on climate actions
• How demilitarization and international peace is a prerequisite for sustainability and our survival
• More education to create systems thinkers with the wisdom to come with solutions to the climate crisis without creating new problems
• How governments need to incentivize corporations so that it is profitable for them to help the environment and the climate rather than destroy them for the sake of profits alone.
• The idea of strategy versus tactics as they pertain to game theory but also towards climate change mitigation.
• The need to stop governments from subsidizing fossil fuels and also the need for big banks to stop financing fossil fuel projects.
• The need to keep one’s perspective and realize that Climate Change is a large and complex problem requiring a diverse array of strategies and tactics to address it.
• and more. . .

Links:

• Project Drawdown

• The Economics of Climate Change-The Stern Review

• Keynote address by the IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee at the ceremonial opening of COP26 Glasgow, 31 October 2021

• Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

• The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

• Ocean Pasture Restoration and the New Paradigm

• Marine Cloud Brightening

• The MEER ReflEction Framework

• Banks are fueling the climate crisis.

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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