Our Top Climate Solutions Today

204: We are overviewing the top climate solutions across four major sectors demanding major overhaul to heavily decarbonize: Transportation, the Built Environment, Food/Agriculture, and Electricity. As we are awaiting climate commitments from the currently-underway COP27, let's understand all the interwoven opportunities to meet our goals of keeping warming below 2C.

Sectors discussed + resources:

• Ep 157: All About COP: Climate Commitments + Inequities at the UN Conference of Parties
• Transportation
• Ep 203: The Power of Walkable Cities
• Press release: DOE and DOT Launch Joint Effort to Build Out Nationwide Electric Vehicle Charging Network (US Dept of Energy, US Dept of Transportation)
• Transportation Electrification (Western Resource Advocates)
• Built Environment
• Alternate Cement (Drawdown)
• Ep 196: Creating Thoughtful Spaces | Amanda Gunawan
• Food/agriculture
• Examining America’s Farm Subsidy Problem (CATO Institute)
• This is how much meat and dairy hurt the climate (Vox)
• How composting can reduce our impact on the planet (UN Environmental Programme)
• Electricity
• Ep 168: Why Does Texas Lose Power During Storms? Power Grid 101 + The History of Electricity in the US
• Emissions by sector: IPCC AR5 WG3 Page 7
• Electricity sector page (Drawdown)

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