We know what we have to do to avoid a climate catastrophe: eat a plant-rich diet, change our energy mix, electrify transport, reverse deforestation. But there are many more solutions to climate change, including some potent ones that rarely get attention.
claims to be the first effort to measure and project the impact of a multitude of existing climate solutions using uniform metrics—carbon emissions avoided or reduced, money spent, money saved—allowing"an apples-to-apples comparison." Foley highlighted three solutions in particular that emerged from the analysis more powerful than expected:
"Women have a disproportionate share of decision making around what happens in the home," Foley said."In terms of water, cooking, food, food waste, fuel choices, how homes are heated, how they’re built, how they’re used. So this also is a powerful kind of Girl Effect, we call it, on our world. It’s enormous, and combined with family planning access, it’s one of the most powerful climate solutions of all.
"Women who have more access to education and more opportunity tend to have fewer children, and a little bit later in life," Foley said. It's the only effective way, short of coercion, to reduce human population growth, which lies at the foundation of all of the earth's environmental woes.
It’s easy to think of the Amazon rainforest in this scenario, but native-managed forests pepper the globe.
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