21 Jul - 28 Jul
A number of people have said that the UNEP Six Sector Solution to Climate Change is one of the best practices for the 2030 goals (not for the 2050 goals, which will need to attract huge numbers of %s to make them technologically cheaper to apply for the world’s poorest, but for the 2030 and 2025 tipping points)
https://www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I do know that the UNEP Six Sector Solution is both hard to apply and incredibly useful.
Therefore, I should go through it and try and make it easier to apply as part of the 14 small sustainability efforts per week- although, it is 100% understandable for people to start the 14 small efforts with how they can switch to cheaper providers, how they can reduce energy costs, and what they could do- prices have doubled here. I hope this method can help with making it motivating and interesting to problem solve what is needed.
From: https://www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/
Overall Sectors:
Energy Sector- shifting to renewable energy and using less energy in regular circumstances
Industry sector- embracing renewable or passive energy-based heating and cooling systems, improving energy efficiency and addressing other important areas like methane leaks.
Food, agriculture, food waste- new food production solutions, reducing food loss and waste, and shifting to a plant-rich diet.
Nature-based solutions- halting deforestation and ecosystem degradation and restoring ecosystems. These actions would also improve air quality, help food and water security, shore up rural economies and can make a major contribution to increasing climate resilience.
Transport- using electric vehicles for private and public transport, encouraging people to walk, cycle and use other forms of non-motorized transport by creating safe spaces. The problem is, the number of vehicles is expected to double by 2050. But we could offset this by
Buildings- 70 percent of the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate a fast-growing world has not been built yet. By making the maximum number of cities and homes fit for a climate change world, by updating existing infrastructure, and by making this as affordable as possible, things can speed up.
Across all sectors, subsidies should be shifted from supporting high-emitting processes and behaviour to pushing for sustainable low-carbon alternatives- or at the least, a level playing field.
“The world is warming faster than at any point in recorded history.
If heating continues, it will have a devastating impact on the planet, causing hunger flooded homes along the coast as well as more wildfires, hurricanes and droughts.
Ensuring a safe future requires the world to cut 30 gigatonnes greenhouse gas emissions annually by 2030. (There are also really important goals by 2025 or it risks tipping points).
Transport and industry are not enough. We need to cut carbon emissions by managing our land and resources more efficiently, including building smart cities and curbing deforestation and food waste. So how can humankind get there? To ensure as stabile climate and make real on the commitment of the Paris Agreement UNEP has identified six sectors with the potential to reduce emissions enough to keep the world below the 1.5°C mark.
It is possible to cut 30 gigatonnes greenhouse gas emissions annually by 2030. There is a lot that can be done now. And then after that will be the harder things. We already have the solutions we need in the six sectors.”
If you have a look at the links below (some of the most useful resources out there), these look really hard for most of the 8 billion people to understand, memorize and apply all of these…
https://www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/
https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_system
How could I make these much easier to apply and achieve?
I should go through these and find ways to make them easier to achieve :
I went through all of these and reorganized these to make these simpler for the 8 billion to achieve in
I created the 8 billion 400> 40> 10> 10 method below
I created the sustainability 7+7 small efforts to make it motivating and interesting
Make sure to search for each of the sections (e.g. Ctrl+F), which is incredibly important
http://bettermindbodyhealthhappiness.com/all-400-items
If you scroll to the civilian section in the link above, you will find that there are 34 actions, plus 10 overall actions at the start (i.e. advocating for these).
But these are supposed to be advocated for the 8 billion too, so this section has been doubled later on (although in a different order).
There are also a total of 271 items in the UNEP 6 Sector Solution, plus 100 items in Project Drawdown, plus the Tipping Points. So out of the 400 climate change items that the 8 billion is supposed to understand, apply and memorize, how about this as a way to make it way, way, way easier for the 8 billion to achieve…
If everyone has an overall list of the 400 to dos (the Six Sector Solution, the Tipping Points, and the Project Drawdown 100, which are reorganized and simplified in the link), you could potentially highlight up to 40 of these per month to >>>attempt, and try to achieve 10 per month.
Or, you could highlight and attempt 10 per week (which you could change at any time for any reason), and try to achieve 10 per month.
And you could use your 7+7 sustainability small efforts per week to make small efforts on understanding, applying or memorizing habits (this method makes it a lot more fun and interesting).
If you aim to achieve an >average of at least 10 out of 40 per month, this would mean that you achieved all 400 things within 27+10+2 months, or 12+12+15 months…
This means 400 tasks to memorize… achieved before 2027 if 10 were achieved each month, would you believe it. 2027.
However, its not that simple- the whole world needs to be aiming for 10 per month (and attempting ~40 per month, even if fail).
And a lot of the tasks are worldwide advocacy tasks, so they would take longer to achieve. But if enough people made regular efforts (e.g. to influence people, post on social media or other methods, e.g. for the various how not to waste food methods),
this means that people could jointly achieve world goals around these, which you could count as one of your 10. This means that if someone else achieves an advocacy one, you can count it as one of your achieved ones too.
This is particularly needed because there are really important tipping points around 2025 as well as 2030. And if this method gets rolled out to all the 8 billion, this means that the easiest items can potentially be completed before 2025 tipping points. The 7+7 small efforts could be a really good way to fast track progress around the 400 needs for the 8 billion, and to make it really, really, really easy to do (the 7+7 small efforts per week are really easy, so this would be easier).
And for everyone to try to achieve an average of at least 10 per month, and to attempt up to 40 per month (e.g. during your sustainability efforts), and get the world to do the same (although its reasonable if they want to use their sustainability time to solve urgent cost or extreme weather problems first)
You don’t have to do this, but I think this is one of the easiest, fastest ways to apply the complexity of the 400 needed 2030 actions: https://www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/ and https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
The advocacy ones would be hard though because you don’t know how long they will take
But we don’t have to achieve it all in 2 years… Yes, there are tipping points around 2025 in 2 years but we have until 2030 if enough is done for the 2025 tipping points (e.g. the larger areas)
Table of Contents:
(from https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions, from all the Tipping Point %s, from www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change, from the world of technical people’s % solutions)
Anything you can do to help the world of technical people interested in adding %s of solutions to make things cheaper for the poorest 4 billion
Any %s that you can do to help prevent high risk tipping points
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_system)
Any %s you can do to help understand, add %s for or safely advocate for the 8 billion to apply the 200 best solutions - e.g. this website is incredibly useful: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions
o Together with preventing Tipping Points, this section is incredibly important… while it might take a long time to achieve, each % helps a lot
o Adding the 100 from here to advocate for for worldwide would be incredibly helpful
o The largest 20 from here are a really good starting point for the 2025 and 2030 Tipping Points- however all of the 100 will need to be applied as soon as it they become cheap enough for the world’s poorest 5.5 billion, and to be applied by the world’s wealthiest 1%, 5%, 10% sooner than that (remembering that some people in wealthier societies are wealthier compared to the world but are poor in their own societies)
o It would also be really helpful if there was a second 100 created because some of these won’t happen- e.g. the largest solution of Onshore Wind Turbines probably won’t happen because they’re too loud
Civilian list for habits for yourself- 34 items
Government list for your country advocacy (but only if it’s safe)- 38 items
Business list for your business- 36 items
Civilian list for worldwide advocacy (i.e. each of the actions as well)- 10+34 items
Government list for worldwide advocacy (only if safe)- 38 items
Business list for worldwide advocacy- 36 items
35 optional recommended readings from The Six Sector Solution
How to Apply This
The problem is, there are 8 billion people, and so many recommendations that are supposed to be advocated for the full 8 billion. At first, it appears impossible.
The largest problem with this is that there are 8 billion people, and 400 recommendations that are supposed to be advocated for the full 8 billion to understand, choose from and do.
It appears impossible at first. However- how about this as a potential method to make this >>>potentially quickly achievable.
This is supported by the weekly 7+7 small efforts on sustainability, which includes climate change (and climate change is one of the most important areas).
Obviously, ways to reduce costs if relevant
· However- do NOT do this in extreme temperatures
· In extreme temperatures you need to take care of yourself first
So how do you do this in practice? Explanation 1:
You create an overall original list that contains the Table of Contents below. Please be aware that the advocacy lists (#4, #5 and #6) are identical to the civilian, business and your country government (if it’s safe) lists- however, the advocacy lists are for how the entire world can understand and apply the easier items.
You then create a backup of the full list, and then create another copy for actually working on- I pasted the original overall full list below this.
You then cut and paste 10-20 actions you would like to try in fortnight one (or up to 40 per month- which you can change at any time for any reason), and when you achieve them, paste them in a completed list, or put a line through them.
And aim to achieve an average of at least 10 per month… being aware that the advocacy ones are the hardest because its supposed to be worldwide. If you can’t, you can’t, but to try.
You might also want to start each section by copying and pasting the category name in front of it.
And that’s my theory of everything solution for the 400 climate change needs that 8 billion people are supposed to memorize- together with:
The 7+7 small sustainability efforts (this includes climate change) per week is a really easy way to get started and keep going (and adding additional efforts to each week from the last week of 2100 backwards)
Regularly encouraging the worldwide uptake and popularization of climate change solutions
Being careful with prices, especially for the people who most need it
Strongly encouraging the world of tech people to keep adding %s to make climate change more effective and especially cheaper for the world’s poorest 5 billion- because the 2050 solutions will probably rely strongly on ways to make things cheaper for the majority- but there are a lot of tipping points before then
I created a Section called “9 How to Apply This” and a Section called “Example for Month 1” at the bottom of this page
Overall Method:
1. To copy the overall list above, which is based on the Six Sector Solution & Project Drawdown. Please be aware that the advocacy lists (#4, #5, #6) are identical to the civilian, business and your country government (if it’s safe) lists- however, the advocacy lists are for how the entire world can understand and apply the easier items. Also- please be aware of trackers and your strategies how to ethically keep safe.
You then create a backup of the full list, and then create another copy for actually working on- I pasted the original overall full list below this.
2. There are about 400 actions above. This is a large number for 8 billion people to apply. However, think about this:
In the civilian section, there are 34 actions, plus 10 overall actions at the start (i.e. advocating for these)
And there are 271 items in the UNEP 6 Sector Solution (plus 100 items in Project Drawdown plus the Tipping Points).
However, if you highlight up to 40 per month and achieve an average of at least 10 per month (month- not week, e.g. in your 14 small efforts per week)… this would literally mean that you achieved all things within 27+10+2 months, or 12+12+15 months… i.e. before 2026… Can you believe this. However, its supposed to go for the full 8 billion. And a lot of it is advocacy, which is particularly hard because its supposed to go to the full 8 billion as a habit- and that’s once its cheap enough for the poorest people.
But you just keep adding 40 per month- that’s 10 of any choice per week, which you can change at any time.
And try and achieve an average of 10 per month. If you can’t, then you can’t, but to regularly try to (if it’s safe).
And when they are achieved, you paste them in a completed list and/or put a line through them.
And to be aware early on that the advocacy ones will take the longest, because this is 8 billion people, depending on when they can afford it. In a perfect world, it’s all achieved by 2026 (this is real). But because the advocacy ones are for 8 billion, and it also needs the world of tech people to regularly add %s to make it cheap enough for the poorest 4 billion people, it might take longer than 2026. But a world where it stays at 1.5 degrees means that climate change disasters increase only 5 times. And a world where it gets problem solved beyond that? It could get reversed. If those tipping points are prevented. And if the world does this method- when they can >>>afford it enough.
3. In terms of motivation, the 7+7 small efforts (e.g. your sustainability time) makes this a lot easier to do, because it gets really motivating really fast. Out of the 40 that you choose per month, to try to achieve an average of at least 10 per month, remembering that the worldwide advocacy ones are the hardest, because its 8 billion people, and its >>>when they can afford them. But you do get the benefits of, when the world achieves one together, you can count it as one of your 10, even if you didn’t work on it. And get the world to do the same (attempt 40 per month, achieve an average of 10) although it’s reasonable if they want to use their sustainability time to solve urgent costs or extreme weather problems first).
However, be really mindful of trackers and your >>>ethical strategies around safety and these.
You don’t have to do this, but I think this is one of the >>>easiest ways to apply the complexity of the 2030 solutions for the 8 billion people: https://www.unep.org/interactive/six-sector-solution-climate-change/ and https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions.
An Example For Month 1
I copied the full list above, which contained 1,2,3 (the civilian, government, and business lists from above), 4,5,6 (the same lists, but for advocacy for the 8 billion- when- when- it becomes affordable enough for poorer people), 7 (the recommended reading lists from the Six Sector Solution), 8 (Project Drawdown’s 100 advocacy areas, which I organized into 8 categories and found the largest 24 for the 2025 goals), 9,10 (these should be the tipping points and ways to make these cheaper worldwide, but I haven’t added these yet).
I started by cutting out 40 I want to try in Month 1, and pasted these below this section.
I could have chosen any number per week, or preplanned them for the month. Choosing at least 5 per week creates both variety and focus, and means that you are (1) less likely to get stuck and (2) can include the long-term advocacy ones in early. This means that I have two lists- this months list, and an overall list with 400 less 40 items. I can also change any of the 40 over at any time.
I need to try to achieve an average of 10 of these each month (month), knowing that (1) the 8 billion people advocacy ones will be the hardest (and depend on when people can actually afford them) and (2) I might fail to reach 10 of these in months later on… but the idea is to keep trying.
To make this motivating, easy and interesting, I could use some of my sustainability 7+7 small efforts per week on these, e.g. adding %s to understand them more, and ideas around what I could do around them.
I could also potentially order them into which ones I want to work on each week (e.g. 10 or 15 to think about each week).
I have also added %s underneath as I understand them more
Note: It is way easier to edit this in Word
I went through all of these and reorganized these to make these simpler in
http://www.bettermindbodyhealthhappiness.com/all-400-items
The largest problem with this is that there are 8 billion people, and 400 recommendations that are supposed to be advocated for the full 8 billion to understand, choose from and do.
It really appears impossible at first. However- how about this as a potential method to make this >>>potentially quickly achievable.
This is supported by the weekly 7+7 small efforts on sustainability, which includes climate change (and climate change is one of the most important areas).
Done
1 Civilian list for myself
Agriculture, Food & Waste
Shift towards a more plant-rich diet- I’ve been doing this for years, so I would just keep optimising this and nutrients
Buy only what you can eat or save- I already do this
Share excess with services who can distribute it to the needy- we eat all or most our food but I donate money regularly
Transport Sector:
Walk and cycle- I live somewhere where everything is hard to walk to, so I can’t do this
Join bike-sharing, scooter-sharing or car-sharing services- This isn’t applicable to me
Choose rail over air and travel as little as possible- I already do this… I don’t particularly like the travel as little as possible recommendation… I think travel is wonderful. So it would be moving towards some kind of optimized middle path for this where this moves towards the optimal between the various factors. However, it’s not really applicable to me because I don’t really travel much. If I did travel, it would be adding small efforts to figure out the factors for what the perfect middle path for me could end up doing. And potentially putting more effort into the other 399 factors to make up for it… not travel. Travel is wonderful. So moving towards the perfect middle way of all the factors and if I felt guilty, making up for it with the other factors.
To Do
If I feel overwhelmed by 40, I could choose a smaller number out of these to consider first. For example, I could choose 5 or 10 or 15 to focus on first, or I could order all 40 in priorities of 10, etc, and only consider those each week.
I don’t need to achieve all these, these are just what I’m attempting per month, until I either feel like changing them (where I can copy and paste them back until later) or achieve them (put them in a completed list or put a line through them)
Also, a small effort (if you do this as part of the 7+7 sustainability small efforts, which climate change is the number one priority) doesn’t mean an achievement… it just means a small effort, which could be minutes, but it could also be literally 4 seconds on a hard paragraph or of effort. %s and small efforts are different.
8 Project Drawdown
Any %s that I can do to help achieve this
When I was adding short explanations to some of the Project Drawdown solutions, I noticed that a number of the solutions had a lot of deeper similarities. Therefore, it might be really effective to create a % of grouping these in application ways…
For example, some are practices to become really well known among farmers, some are forest regeneration practices, some are different types of applications of solar power… if I could do this plus keep adding explanations and %s, this would be really useful to the 2050 results.
1 Civilian list for myself
Agriculture, Food & Waste
Eat seasonally and locally when possible
I could add %s for what this means.
It could mean asking if food is local, and if I’m not sure between a choice of two options, going for the local option
You would need to learn what seasonal is... How do you make this a habit? Probably by googling “what produce is in season” around once per month. It would probably be about figuring out what foods are not in season and potentially eating those less. It could be organizing the foods that are in season (according to what I would eat), and organizing the foods that are not in season on paper, and to make this “a habit”, reviewing this e.g. once a month or once every several weeks
Would you get obsessed with what is in season? It would be finding the perfect middle ground over time… so, regularly improving.
It wouldn’t be about perfection- it would be about making it enough of long-term habit of regular improvement.
It would be easy to make a habit wouldn’t it? You would just need to find out how to get this data and if you practiced it about 7 or 10 times, it would be easy enough to remember to spend a few minutes reviewing it once per month?
And whenever I think it is enough of a habit, I can mark it as solved
Nature Based Solutions
Create a diet that reduces forest habitat loss and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free ingredients, when possible- What does this mean? I could add %s for understanding it. It would be choosing “deforestation-free ingredients” (when I can afford it, and over time, to become more of a habit)- what does this mean? I might not be able to achieve this this month, but I can add some %s or efforts to it.
Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests
2 Government list for country advocacy (but only if it’s safe)
Agriculture, Food & Waste
10. Set and promote science-based targets to increase the availability and uptake of plant-rich diets, increase sustainable production and minimize food waste
1. Plant rich diets- so figuring out what climate change priorities are
2. Sustainable production- what is this?
3. Minimize food waste- is this promotional campaigns?
11. Align national diet recommendations with climate goals
1. What is a climate change prevention diet? This looks really hard- it might be another month
2. Are national diet recommendations around this?
Nature Based Solutions
12. Halve tropical deforestation by 2025 and stop net deforestation by 2030 globally
Everything around tipping points
13. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It runs through 2030, which is also the deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and the timeline scientists have identified as the last chance to prevent catastrophic climate change.
As well as the limitations around this and tipping points
14. Adopt a diet that reduces forest habitat loss, peatlands drainage and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free and peatlands drainage-free ingredients, when possible.
Buildings and Cities Sector:
15. Promote the installation of heat pumps, solar cells and heat storage technology
What are these, in more detail?
16. Plan cities for strategic density and mixed use of buildings and urban fabric, so that neighborhoods have the services they need at the local scale
What is this, in more detail?
17. Mainstream sustainable building within urban and rural planning
What does this mean? How can I support this?
4 Civilian list for worldwide advocacy (but only if it’s safe)
Advocating for these to become normalized globally and for %s how to make these as cheap as possible (so strongly encouraging both take-up of these and strongly encouraging the tech world to add their %s to these)
18. forest habitat conservation and restoration
19. nature restoration and against deforestation
20. nature-based agriculture and waste reduction
21. renewable energy and energy efficiency
Some ideas for advocacy could potentially include:
Talk to friends about the need for
Attend or arrange events or communities in support for
Join a local or national organization supporting the need for
Urge your politicians to propose and vote for ambitious policies for
Push for and support policies for
Speak up for these at work or in your organization
Energy Sector
22. Understand how much energy you use and try to consume less of it (but Not in extreme temperatures)
23. Use energy that comes from renewable sources if possible
Industry Sector
24. Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle what you consume
How do I support this, while also taking into account the importance of growth to preventing recessions
Nature Based Solutions
25. Adopt a diet that reduces forest habitat loss and degradation by shopping locally and in season and purchasing products with deforestation-free ingredients, when possible
26. Whenever possible, neutralize your carbon footprint through investments in natural carbon sinks, such as forests
Transport Sector:
27. Reduce your commute by working from home
28. Join bike-sharing, scooter-sharing or car-sharing services
Buildings and Cities Sector:
29. Understand a home’s energy efficiency before you buy or rent
How can I learn more about this
30. Find out where your home loses energy and take steps to address it
How can I learn more about this
7 Optional Recommended Readings
How do I know when I’ve read it enough? I can’t read every detail of the larger reports. So how do I figure out when I’ve read enough important parts? What are my goals when reading these?
Nature Based Solutions
The state of the world's forests: Forests, Biodiversity and People
How a lagoon became first line of defence against climate change
Overall List
The 400 Items, in the 10 categories, which I deleted 40 from and pasted above
And I can focus on the 40 above for the first month
(e.g. 5, 10 or 20 to think about per week)
I was having difficulties editing this at the end of this page, so I created the full month 1 example at:
https://www.bettermindbodyhealthhappiness.com/all-400-items
Up to 40 per month- I chose 30 to start with…
So here are up to 40 I chose for myself to start with this month,
With the idea of achieving at least 10 per month.
And I cut and pasted these from the full list
So I chose 40+ above, and cut and pasted them from my full list into the above. I feel a bit overwhelmed. Therefore, I could count this process as an effort/a number of small efforts out of the 7+7 sustainability. Or I could choose 5, 10 or 15 as options to consider for week 1. And I need to try to achieve 10 per month (month). If tipping points are prevented, this will help to achieve this by 2027.
For example, you could choose 5-20 per week and if you fail, you fail, but you try
I don’t need to achieve all these, these are just what I’m attempting, until I either achieve them (put them in a completed list or put a line through them), or feel like changing them (where I can copy and paste them back until later)
To make this easier and more motivating to do, I could use some of the weekly sustainability efforts, which become easier and easier over time
For example, I could do 4 small efforts, where I read about these, try to clarify these, or try to solve them. An effort is exactly that- an effort. It could be 5 seconds. It could be a few minutes. 5 seconds counts too. It tends to become easier over time as you become more interested.
But to beware trackers