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Discussion 14 of 18 (Module 7): Climate Change Solutions

Overview

Now that we've focused on the the Science of Climate Change, let's focus on solutions!

Project DrawdownLinks to an external site. gathers and facilitates a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and activists to assemble and present the best available information on climate solutions in order to describe their beneficial financial, social and environmental impact over the next thirty years.

To earn 5-points on this discussion post, complete the following steps:

  1. Visit this website: https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank Links to an external site. and view the list of solutions, by rank.
  2. Choose one of the solutions on this list (one that has NOT already been selected by one of your peer's - this will require that you peruse the discussion thread before choosing a solution) and click on it to read more information.
  3. To complete your post:
    • Summarize the solution and state which aspect of climate change it addresses
    • State its rank of the list
    • Describe how the solution is currently being implemented and/or discuss future implementation plans
    • What is the impact of this solution? (include here the amount of Gigatons CO2 equivalent reduced/sequestered)
    • For full credit, be sure to comment or ask a question on one of your classmate's posts