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b"When it comes to solving climate change, where do we start? The organization Project Drawdown has published a list of top solutions for climate change \\u2013 impactful actions already in existence that not only reduce carbon emissions, but also improve lives, create jobs and generate community resilience. \\u201cIf you\\u2019re thinking about how to solve climate change here's where you start,\\u201d says Jonathan Foley, Project Drawdown\\u2019s executive director. \\u201cElectricity is about a quarter of the problem. Food, agriculture and forest are also a quarter of the problem...then you\\u2019ve got buildings, industry and transportation. Those are the five things we\\u2019ve got to change.\\u201d \\nOne item that might surprise many is dealing with global overpopulation. And that starts with improving education and reproductive freedom for the world\\u2019s girls and women. \\u201cIf women have the opportunity to be able to have a voice and be agents in their community and their country globally, we have the opportunity to have the kind of innovation that we need to be able to combat this,\\u201d says Lois Quam of Pathfinder International. \\u201cThat human right to decide whether and when and how many and with whom we want to have a child, the ability to exercise that right is\\u2026one of the top strategies to combat climate change.\\u201d It\\u2019s quite a to-do list \\u2013 and it\\u2019s only the beginning. \\nHow to sort through the many daunting tasks ahead of us? Don\\u2019t be discouraged, says Foley. It almost doesn\\u2019t matter where we start, as long as we\\u2019re doing something. Corporations, policy makers, communities and individuals all have a part to play in achieving climate drawdown. \\nThis point was driven home to the audience and panelists alike by an additional guest, 13-year old Kea Morshed. His YouTube channel, Movies with Mic1, demonstrates the many ways we can all challenge ourselves to take action on climate change. \\n\\u201cAt the end of the day, it's gonna be behavior change by all of us that\\u2019s necessary,\\u201d Foley tells Climate One. \\u201cIt\\u2019s gonna be policy change, business operations change and changes in capital, money. \\u201cSo don\\u2019t pick one lever, pull them all, you know - everybody bloody one you can find!\\u201d \\nGuests: Kate Brandt, Sustainability Officer, Google \\nJonathan Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown \\nLois Quam, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, Pathfinder International \\nThis program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on July 11, 2019.\\nFor complete show notes, visit our website.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"