Preventing global warming

• The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change is a serious global threat, and it demands an urgent global response.

• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world – access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer

• The Stern Review assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change and on the economic costs, and used a number of different techniques to assess costs and risks. From all of these perspectives, the evidence gathered by the Review leads to a simple conclusion: the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting.

[edit] What to do against global warming

One way to begin making a difference is to learn how the way we live impacts our global environment. The average American is responsible for about 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions each year. This per capita number is greater than that of any other industrialized country.

• Consume Less, Conserve More

• Be cool! (and save the planet...)

• Fly less!

• Be energy efficient

• Preserve the rainforest

• Be a Catalyst for Change

• Plant a tree

• Calculate how much CO2 you produce, using carbon footprint calculators.

• Carbon offsets

• Fight desertification

• Join the big ask

• Tips what to do against Heat Islands

• Corporate Climate Strategies

• 12 measures for cities to combat global warming

• Join the virtual march against global warming

• If you live in France, join the Alliance pour la planete (Alliance for the planet)

• Air pollution and Climate Magazines and Journals

Also see Energy tips, Climate change, Global warming, Greenhouse gases, carbon sinks, carbon capture, Transport tips

[edit] Relevant links

• The Royal Society -Facts about climate change

• Campaign against Climate Change

• Stop Climate Chaos

• I count - stop climate chaos

• www.bbc.co.uk/climate

• Greenpeace - climate change

• DEFRA -Climate change