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Find out what the fossil fuel companies that serve your community are doing to reduce methane leaks. If it is inadequate, help regulators and community members become aware and concerned.
Encourage your community to test for and work to mitigate leaks in its natural gas distribution system.
Managing methane leaks saves money for natural gas companies and potentially for their customers.
Recycle plastic containers whenever possible.
Ask your community center or a local retailer to set up a station for recycling plastic bags and films.
Recycling protects ocean and other water ecosystems.
Where possible, avoid single-use plastic items.
Reuse plastic and glass food containers rather than purchasing new ones for storing leftovers.
Ensure that your community has good access to metals recycling infrastructure – not just aluminum and food can bins, but scrap metal as well.
Promote the climate benefits of metals recycling in your school or at your workplace.
Recycling metals reduces habitat destruction and pollution from mining.
One of the most confounding realities of the climate crisis is that two seemingly contradictory facts are simultaneously true: that humanity has at our fingertips the solutions to fix it at the very same time that global greenhouse gas emissions soar higher than ever.
This article originally appeared on The Hill.
Two years ago Mark Carney, then-head of the central bank of England, called into question the very existence of corporations that don’t adhere to the steep emissions reductions required to limit warming to 1.5°C: “Those that fail to adapt will cease to exist.”
Governments and businesses are looking to lead on climate change, but too many of their commitments are built on flawed “net zero” frameworks and problematic “carbon offsets.”
Authentic climate leadership requires more—a transparent and meaningful “Emissions 360” pledge that is focused on bringing real emissions to zero, helping others do the same, and equitably addressing historic climate pollution.
