When deciding whether to buy biofuels, consider the pros and cons for the climate and environment more broadly.

Encourage your elected officials to support legislation that enhances the capacity of farmers to contribute to solving climate change.

Plant a fruit or nut tree suitable to your climate.

Include sustainably produced tree fruits and nuts in your diet.

Growing perennial staple crops improves soil health and reduces nutrient pollution in streams and rivers.

If you farm, explore whether tree intercropping could be a win-win for you and the climate.

Share this page with a local producer of fruit, nuts, or other tree crops. Explain how reducing climate risk today will help their business flourish for generations to come.

Tree intercropping improves soil health and boosts soils' ability to store water, which is beneficial during prolonged dry spells.

It also promotes biodiversity by providing diverse habitats and food sources for a variety of organisms. The presence of trees in agricultural landscapes attracts beneficial insects, birds, and other wildlife, fostering ecological balance and supporting a healthy ecosystem.

When buying items like coffee and cocoa, consider purchasing shade-grown options.

Use the "both-and" thinking like that which inspired this solution to come up with ways to make practices in your life more environment and climate friendly.

Multistrata agroforestry improves soil health and boosts soils' ability to store water, which is beneficial during prolonged dry spells.

It also promotes biodiversity by providing diverse habitats and food sources for a variety of organisms. The presence of trees in agricultural landscapes attracts beneficial insects, birds, and other wildlife, fostering ecological balance and supporting a healthy ecosystem.

If you farm, consider adding tree crops. such as nuts and fruit, to your enterprise.

Support farms that use silvopasture and other systems that sequester carbon as well as produce food.

Silvopasture improves soil water retention by increasing organic matter in soil which acts as a buffer during droughts.

It increases farmer income through diversification of trees and crops.

It contributes to animal well-being by increasing shade and protecting them from heat stress.

If you eat meat, consider purchasing grass-fed options.

Write a letter to the editor explaining the climate benefits of managed grazing.

Managed grazing improves soil health and reduces nutrient pollution in streams and rivers.

If you manage development funds, consider that tropical forest restoration can benefit people, reduce biodiversity loss, and reduce climate risk at the same time.

Hold the companies that make your food and beverages, or in which you are invested, responsible for protecting existing tropical forests and supporting the restoration of degraded ones.

Tropical forests support pollinators that in turn support pollinator-dependent agriculture, providing food for local people.

Tropical forests retain nitrogen in watersheds, benefiting downstream rivers and lakes.

Tropical forest protection helps preserve and safeguard biodiversity in Key Biodiversity Areas.

If you own land that once was forested, consider restoring all or part of it to its natural state.

Volunteer with a reforestation, invasive species removal, or habitat restoration project.

If you own or manage land, restore as much as possible to natural vegetation.

Forests support pollinators that in turn support pollinator-dependent agriculture, providing food for local people.

Forests retain nitrogen in watersheds, benefiting downstream rivers and lakes.

Forest protection helps preserve and safeguard biodiversity in Key Biodiversity Areas.

If you use fuels such as wood, charcoal, dung, or crop residues for cooking, shift to clean stove stacking—a suite of electric, gas, and biomass options—instead of relying on one type of stove for all cooking needs.

Encourage your government to prioritize clean cooking initiatives in communities experiencing a high amount of household air pollution and adverse health impacts from the use of traditional cookstoves and lack of access to clean cooking.

Learn more about how adopting clean cooking fosters impressive human well-being co-benefits, particularly for women and girls, in Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being. 

Clean cooking reduces household air pollution by reducing harmful emissions of particulate matter.

Clean cooking can increase household incomes as household members use time formerly spent gathering fuel on economic activities.

Support entrepreneurs who are working to advance this climate solution in regions where cookstoves are commonly used.

Share this page with a nonprofit organization that works to improve well-being in low-income countries.

Cooking with biogas reduces household air pollution by reducing harmful emissions of particulate matter.

Biogas use can increase household incomes as household members use time formerly spent gathering fuel on economic activities.