Fostering effective, inclusive collaboration can be a powerful leverage point for addressing climate change, but it requires a focus on relationships, values, and a bigger picture. Some of the most promising climate solutions have the potential to benefit health, well-being, and social justice while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there’s a catch. Implementing these solutions […]
How To Ensure that Everyone Has Access to Affordable, Clean Energy
Although it might sound contradictory, it is possible to both reduce carbon emissions and improve access to affordable energy. Below is a collection of resources to help us multisolve and accomplish both goals. Billions of people in the developing world are energy poor – they lack access to electricity and clean cooking facilities. In the […]
How To Create Good Jobs at Fair Wages – And Help the Climate
Transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is a way to both mitigate climate change and create jobs. We are collecting resources to spread the word and help this process benefit as many people as possible. Multisolving won’t happen by accident, and our goal is to make it a more accessible and widespread practice. […]
Why We Multisolve – Emphasizing Co-Benefits in Addressing Climate Change
Policies that work to mitigate climate change can also produce other co-benefits. For example, planting trees in urban areas sequesters carbon dioxide emissions while simultaneously reducing air pollution, beautifying the area, reducing energy use, and stifling noise, among other benefits. With this one investment we can make strides in climate change mitigation, public health, and […]
FLOWER – A Simple Tool for Groups to Develop Climate Solutions with Multiple Benefits
Projects that protect the climate can also boost well-being, equity, or resilience. But for groups of stakeholders with limited time and many complex goals and constraints it can be challenging to design for these benefits. We’ve created the FLOWER framework to make that process easier. Here are some ways that FLOWER is being by groups […]
Six Opportunities to Benefit Children’s Health and the Climate
As climate change worsens, health risks increase. Less well recognized is the converse – many of the attitudes and actions that protect the climate of the future also help improve health today. Here are six ways to improve the health of children and families that protect the climate at the same time: Get off of […]
Beth Sawin on how City Efforts can Improve our Climate
Yesterday, Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin took some time away from the Paris COP meetings to join a panel on the San Francisco radio show Your Call discussing the roles cities can play in mitigating climate change. Cities are influential areas, where many sectors and many solutions can potentially work together to multisolve using the […]
The Skills and Approaches of Multisolvers: Our Research Agenda at COP-21
What is the secret ingredient behind some of the most innovative and promising approaches to climate change, approaches that protect the climate for the long term while increasing health, well-being and equity today? We think it’s a particular type of leader – one who is able to implement solutions that solve multiple problems for the […]