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Solar farms – with their full life cycle considered, solar farms produce 94% fewer carbon emissions than coal power.Family planning – on a related note, providing contraceptives to all those that want them would also reduce the burden on the planet while improving opportunities for women.At 100% enrollment of girls in secondary school, the world population would be 843 million lower in 2050 than current projections, dramatically improving the chances of providing a decent way of life for everyone in a stable climate. Educating girls qualifies as a climate change solution because the more years of education women complete, the fewer children they tend to have. Educating girls – another surprise at how high this comes in, and again, it shouldn’t be controversial.
Restoring and protecting tropical forests would turn a source of emissions into a carbon sink, and have many benefits for people and development too. Tropical forests – forests in the tropical regions have the highest carbon uptake, but have been extensively cleared in recent decades.Of everything on the list, this is the one that most of us could make a start on right now, and make a serious dent in our personal carbon footprint. Plant-rich diets – or eating less meat, if you prefer.Food waste – everyone can agree that less food waste is a good thing, and when you factor in the emissions that go into producing what we throw away, as well as emissions from landfill, it’s at number three in the list of solutions.There is room for widespread adoption of wind power in many parts of the world. Onshore wind – the most cost effective form of electricity generation, and therefore the cheapest way to displace fossil fuels.I don’t think I’ve ever written about refrigeration on the blog here, which now seems like a major oversight and I will correct that in due course. Refrigeration – the most effective thing we can do to help reverse climate change is dispose of fridges and air conditioning units properly, so that their HFC gases don’t escape into the atmosphere.So here it is, and all the technical details are available online if you want to see the maths: I was rather surprised by the top ten, especially given how much attention certain solutions get relative to others. Drawdown, which I reviewed last week, is a book with 100 solutions to climate change, each quantified and ranked for effectiveness.
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