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The Climate Web 10/5/2026
Mitigation Recommendations
Children
2017 Adopt plant-rich diets
2017 Educate girls
2017 Maximize family planning
2017 Maximize large-scale solar
2017 Maximize on-shore wind
2017 Maximize rooftop solar
2017 Promote silvopasture
2017 Reduce food waste
2017 Refrigerant management
2017 Restore tropical forests
2019 Adopt a carbon tax
2019 Be smart about air conditioning
2019 Be smart about nuclear power
2019 Build a fair amount of hydro storage
2019 Build continent-scale electrical grids and markets
2019 Build the Climate Movement
2019 Change agricultural practices
2019 Create a prize to develop modular nuclear reactors
2019 Curb the effects of meat and dairty
2019 Develop a high-voltage direct current transmission infrastructure
2019 Electrify everything
2019 Eliminate HFCs in refrigeration
2019 Encourage electric vehicles
2019 Explore new nuclear technologies
2019 Fix concrete
2019 Focus on carbon capture and storage
2019 Focus on community-building and resiliency
2019 Focus on educating girls
2019 Focus on improving energy storage systems
2019 Get Democrats elected to pass a fee and dividend scheme
2019 Incentivize carbon farming
2019 Make it easier to live without cards
2019 NOT air-to-fuel technologies
2019 NOT mechanical capture and storage
2019 NOT nuclear power
2019 Open electric markets to competition
2019 Overbuild renewable generation
2019 Pass a Green New Deal
2019 Plant a lot of trees
2019 Prevent wasted food
2019 Price carbon aggressively
2019 Promote high voltage long-distance transmission lines
2019 Promote passage of the Green New Deal
2019 Set local emissions goals
2019 Shut down coal and gas generation aggressively
2019 Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel
2020 Adopt market-based instruments to create incentives for individuals and business
2020 Advance justice
2020 Bring local communities to the table
2020 Build an alliance among science, religion, health care, and policy to garner public support
2020 Decentralize energy distribution
2020 Drive the politics
2020 Embed experts in non-climate focused organizations
2020 Expand use of halophytes
2020 Feed cows seaweed
2020 Figure out how to get funding to frontline organizations
2020 Focus on neglected sectors
2020 Foster a global culture of climate action through coordinate public communication
2020 Improve mass transit
2020 Make maxium use of technologies to reduce methane emissions by 50%, black carbon by 90%, and eliminate HFCs
2020 Promote CCS
2020 Promote household energy efficiency
2020 Promote immediate and widespread use of mature technologies, and promote complete electrification
2020 Promote insect diets
2020 Promote remote work
2020 Promote sustainable agroforestry
2020 Promote use of data centers
2020 Protect and expand natural carbon sinks
2020 Protect coastal wetlands
2020 Put both mitigation AND adaptation at the core of any strategy
2020 Reduce energy extraction on public lands
2020 Reduce short-lived forcers and replace fossil fuel energy systems with carbon-neutral technologies
2020 Regeneration damaged natural ecosystems and restore soil organic carbon
2020 Repair global systems
2020 Scale up subnational models of governance and collaboration to energize national and international action
2020 Secure indigenous peoples' land rights
2020 Start a Fulbright for climate change
2020 Strengthen Paris Agreement and others like the Kigali Amendment
2020 Support local governments everywhere
2020 Support new climate legislations
2020 Support plant-based food startups
2020 Target direct regulatory measures for high-emissions sectors not covered by market-based policies
2020 Trust your grantees and streamline the grantmaking process
2020 Use damaged lands to boost clean energy
Do the work needed to evaluate solar engineering technologies like cloud brightening
Invest in Generation IV fission reactors
Make Kansas a model state for clean energy
Purchase your own reactor and demonstrate it for $30 million