Climate change solutions news

• How soil could help us reach climate targets, theconversation.com (Nov 13, 2025)
• A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
• ‘As more join, it gets less risky’: how Greta Thunberg’s lone strike turned into a movement, theguardian.com (Sep 04, 2025)
• Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 01, 2025) — Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action. The final two measures of the 10 point plan are to promote a “civic culture of prevention and reaction”
• This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures, theguardian.com (Aug 04, 2025)
• France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025)
• The regen farmers challenging food system foundations, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 05, 2025) — large-scale regenerative farming study renews hope for nature-friendly food producers
• Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?, carbonbrief.org (Jun 03, 2025)
• Insect protein could support healthy ageing and fight climate change, theconversation.com (May 16, 2025)
• Working less is the most underrated climate solution, sower.world (May 14, 2025)
• In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity, globalvoices.org (Apr 15, 2025)
• The climate movement needs lawyers. This ‘pro bono bootcamp’ helps connect the dots., grist.org (Apr 02, 2025)
• In a Mumbai district, families’ lives are transformed when their rooftops become solar generators [Earth5R], Daily Alternative (Mar 31, 2025)
• Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: how farmland can trap greenhouse gases, theconversation.com (Jan 30, 2025)
• Saving the surf is a climate solution, Grist (Jan 16, 2025)

• How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels, insideclimatenews.org (Dec 21, 2024)

• Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024)

• Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
• International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
• Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)

• The Rise of the Carbon Farmer, wired.com (Apr 18, 2024)
• ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes, theguardian.com (Apr 16, 2024)

• ‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material, theguardian.com (Feb 15, 2024)
• I was a kitchen snob who would only cook on gas. Now an induction hob is my new flame, theguardian.com (Feb 05, 2024)
• Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs, theguardian.com (Feb 04, 2024)

• Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
• Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)

• How reindeer help fight climate change, BBC Future (Dec 19, 2023)

• ‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network, theguardian.com (Nov 30, 2023)
• ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)

• France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 18, 2023)
• People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2023)

• One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique, bloomberg.com (Aug 08, 2023)

• Seville’s ‘Bioclimatic Bus Stops’ Could Cut Temperatures by 20°C, theenergymix.com (Jul 23, 2023)
• Is it time to choose sustainable rice?, Wicked Leeks (Jul 17, 2023) — You might not know it, but traditional rice cultivation emits serious levels of greenhouse gases. Clare Hargreaves interviews a man working with rice farmers to get climate-friendlier rice onto British dinner plates.

• The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums, BBC Future (Jun 29, 2023)
• The New Livestock Farm Is a Forest, Too, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jun 02, 2023)

• The Ancient ‘Wonder Material’ Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 22, 2023)
• ‘Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods, The Guardian (May 04, 2023)

• Does climate breakdown mean we’re doomed? No: if we’re brave, big change can happen fast, Gaia Vince, The Guardian (Apr 11, 2023)

• Wooden housing boom needed to boost climate goals, says new study – but is it possible?, The Conversation (Aug 30, 2022)
• Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’, The Guardian (Aug 30, 2022)

• Finnish researchers have installed the world's first fully working "sand battery" which can store green power for months at a time, BBC News (Jul 05, 2022)

• The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows, The Conversation (Jun 21, 2022)

• Oceans and their largest inhabitants could be the key to storing our carbon emissions, The Conversation (Apr 11, 2022) — The new agenda would also shore up fish stocks and provide income opportunities for marginalised communities across the world.

• How elephants help pump planet-warming carbon underground, Nov 18...theconversation.com.

• How the rich are driving climate change, BBC Future (Oct 28, 2021) — The world's wealthiest people make a huge contribution to climate change through carbon-hungry activities. How can we reduce emissions from the rich?

• Carbon capture can sit in the background, cleaning up our historic biosphere damage. But there's an acute battle for the metaphors around it. Jul 18...thealternative.org.uk, "There is no reason why carbon-from-air machines shouldn't be as equally (and as locally) distributed as, say, wind farms, heat capture or other community-level generators of renewable energy. Indeed carbon dioxide has a whole planet's atmosphere to occupy. So the greater dispersion and localisation of the technologies drawing it out of the air, the better."
• Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero, May 18...BBC News

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. That's the beauty of "active travel", Apr 30...thealternative.org.uk

• Floating solar farms could cool down lakes threatened by climate change, The Conversation (Apr 13, 2021)

• The ambivalence of cryptocurrency: Bitcoin takes so much energy to maintain…yet a "carboncoin" could pay us to save the planet, Apr 5...thealternative.org.uk
• How can cities that rely on consumption recover from the pandemic, while reducing emissions? Here's some good ideas. Mar 24...thealternative.org.uk

• Rewild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists, Oct 14^[1]
• Missing in action: natural climate solutions in England's national parks, Sep 29^[2]
• Planting Trees Won't Save the World, By Erle C. Ellis, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis. The authors are scientists. Feb 12^[3]
• Holland's Sea Ranger Service hugely sequestrates carbon. But it also socially benefits many: the unemployed, veterans, port workers, Feb 7^[4]

I pioneered the four-day week – now policymakers must adopt it to fight the climate crisis, Andrew Barnes, Jan 29^[5]

• A European tour of climate solutions^[6]
• Make Australia green again, Jan 8^[7]
• Germany cuts fares for long-distance rail travel in response to climate crisis, Jan 2^[8]

References

• The Key to Solving the Climate Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet, Dec 26^[1]
• Agave Power: How a Revolutionary Agroforestry and Grazing System in Mexico Can Help Reverse Global Warming, Dec 18^[2]

Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too. Nov 20^[3]

• Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so. Nov 13^[4]
• Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will, Oct 28^[5]
• Cross-sector 'third spaces' incubate social, climate solutions, Oct 9^[6]

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