RESOURCES FOR ACTION
ActNow App for Action
With the ActNow in-app experience, designed by AWorld, individuals can log their daily sustainable actions, join challenges, and contribute to the collective global count, which has tracked over 9M actions so far! By tracking our habits we can learn to change our behaviors to make choices that have less harmful effects on the environment and lead to a more sustainable world.
Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) provide a plan agreed to by world leaders with solutions to build a greener, fairer, better world by 2030. We each have a role to play in achieving them; for each of the 17 Global Goals, there are many positive actions individuals can take to make a real change.
Human Security for All
Human Security for All (HS4A) is a global campaign led by the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security and the World Academy of Art and Science that, together, engage a diverse network of policymakers, private sector innovators and financiers, youth leaders, educators, scientists, and artists to help generate widespread awareness of the urgent need apply the Human Security approach to multi-dimensional security threats in communities across the globe.
Ecosystem Restoration Playbook
To encourage the revival of ecosystems everywhere, UNEP has published the Ecosystem Restoration Playbook, a practical guide to healing the planet that provides an introduction to the range of actions that can slow and halt degradation and foster the recovery of 8 key types of ecosystems around the world.
SOLUTIONS FOR POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS
Phase Out Fossil Fuels
End all current or proposed coal, oil, and gas projects, financing, subsidies, licenses, permits, and extensions.
Decarbonize Energy Supply
Shift to affordable, clean, renewable energy sources and storage systems; green hydrogen; sustainable shipping & aviation fuels.
Transform Energy Demand
Retrofit and build energy efficient buildings, planes, ships, industrial plants, etc.; green steel, cement, and chemicals; well-designed cities; more circular business models.
Recapitalize Nature
Restore degraded land; alternative proteins to reduce pressure on land; regenerative agriculture; financing tropical forests and other key ecosystems.
Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
Combine biological, geological, and technological solutions at the scale and speed needed.
Put Methane Back in the Bottle
Track and provide solutions for methane emissions from oil & gas, agriculture, and waste/landfill.
Finance Net Zero Growth in Developing Countries
Increase public finance to cut the cost of capital and attract $1 trillion per year of private capital; stimulate early investments & trigger local market tipping points.