Are there real ways to fight climate change? Yes.

Humans have the solutions to fight a global environmental crisis. Do we have the will?


The evidence that humans are causing climate change, with drastic consequences for life on the planet, is overwhelming.

Experts began raising the alarm about global warming in 1979, a change now referred to under the broader term climate change, preferred by scientists to describe the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems. Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts. 

Over 200 countries—193 countries plus the 27 members of the European Union—have signed the Paris Climate Agreement, a treaty created in 2015 to fight climate change on a global scale. The

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