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Climate change mitigation policies can have a large and complex impact on the socio-economic status of individuals and countries This can be both positive and negative. [299] It is important to design policies well and make them inclusive. Otherwise climate change mitigation measures can impose higher financial costs on poor households. [300]
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates. In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it. [1]
A 2023 review study published in One Earth stated that opinion polls show that most people perceive climate change as occurring now and close by. [175] The study concluded that seeing climate change as more distant does not necessarily result in less climate action, and reducing psychological distancing does not reliably increase climate action ...
Citing statistics such as the fact that a one-way flight from New York to London emits 1 ton of carbon dioxide per passenger, more than citizens of many countries emit over an entire year, climate ...
Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13 or Global Goal 13) is to limit and adapt to climate change. It is one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The official mission statement of this goal is to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". [1]
Although the Inflation Reduction Act will be the largest federal action ever taken to confront climate change, it will fall short of the U.S.'s pledge to reduce emissions by 50-52% from 2005 ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Every society in the world is going to pay a price for global warming. But it’s the poorest countries and communities who will suffer the most from rising seas and burning ...
Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change. These can be both current or expected impacts. [ 1 ] Adaptation aims to moderate or avoid harm for people, and is usually done alongside climate change mitigation .