Climate change solutions

Keep forests, wetlands and grasslands intact. Existing ecosystems win hands down when it comes to carbon capture ‒ so let’s leave them be.

• The Wildlife Trust work with national and local government, businesses and communities to influence planning and development. This helps to protect ecosystems and wildlife.     
• The RSPB’s Futurescapes programme aims to conserve the pieces of land in between nature reserves and protected areas helping to join up fragments of habitat.

Rewild, restore, reintroduce, and regrow the wild.  This helps to create ecosystems that are more complex, biodiverse, resilient and effective carbon capturers.  

• Rewilding Britain aims to restore 30% of Britain’s species-rich habitats by 2030. 

• Trees for Life are rewilding the Scottish Highlands through the reintroduction of species, such as lynx and beaver, and the planting of millions of trees. 

• Eden Project’s Matambú Forest Nature Reserve in Costa Rica, has taken previously degraded farm land and helped restore it through reforestation.  

Improve how we use land for food production and timber.  Regenerative farming is climate positive, increases biodiversity, enhances soil health – and produces food. 

• The Soil Association helps to support farmers and campaigns for more eco-friendly food and farming policies, as well as certifying organic food production.

• The Sustainable Soils Alliance champions the restoration of Britain's soils to prevent flooding, mitigate climate change and increase national food security.

• The Nature-Friendly Farming Network unites farmers with a passion for nature and sustainability, pushing for policy change.

Designate protected areas. Stop plastic and chemical pollution.  

• Oceana is dedicated to protecting and restoring the world’s oceans by influencing policy and governments.  

• The Ocean Cleanup aims to pick up 90% of the world’s floating plastic with the help of citizen science.

• The Marine Conservation Society campaigns for policy change that prevents the release of chemicals into marine environments.

Grow and care for marine forests and meadows. Mangroves, seagrass and saltmarshes each store more carbon than any land-based ecosystem per hectare.  

• Blue Marine Foundation is dedicated to protecting and restoring ocean health by addressing overfishing.   
• The Life Recreation ReMEDIES Project (Ocean Conservation Trust) is England’s largest seagrass replanting project.
• Project Seagrass is devoted to the conservation of seagrass ecosystems through research, community and action.

Fish and farm sustainably and avoid trawling and other activities that damage the seabed.   Monitoring and limiting fishing and sharing quotas between vessels allows fisheries to flourish and sustains livelihoods.  

• Blue Ventures aim to protect and restore ocean life by working with traditional fishers and communities.

• The Marine Stewardship Council blue tick label verifies that fish are being caught in a way that is sustainable for future generations.

Speed up, upscale and reduce cost of renewables like wind, solar and geothermal.  

• Green energy providers, Octopus energy and Good energy (and others) supply greener energy from renewable sources through the national grid.

• The RSPB promote working with renewable energy companies to ensure local wildlife is not lost.  

Ensure energy and materials flow in endless cycles, like they do in nature.  Circular businesses, economies and systems reduce CO₂ emissions by eliminating waste, pollution, and the need for new resources. 

• Fairphone is trying to change the electronics industry by making it easier for people to repair their phones, making them last as long as possible.

• WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Program) aims to create a circular economy by reducing food waste.  

• Planet Mark support and certify businesses for sustainable practices. Working with them to reduce CO₂, waste and their impact on the environment. 

Suck CO₂ out of the air – and use it.  Facilities are being built to capture and store CO₂.  Research is exploring using CO₂ as a resource to make plastics, fuels, even vodka!  

• Air Company creates products from CO₂, including vodka and perfume.

• Skydiamond make jewellery out of captured CO₂, helping to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and reduce mining for diamonds. 

Realise we are part of nature, not apart from it. Respect and value the world and each other.  

• Earth Overshoot Day raises awareness of the consumption and use of natural resources and provides decision-makers with tools to help the economy operate within Earth’s natural limits. 

• Fairtrade certify products that are ethically produced to help protect worker’s rights, ensure fair pay and safe working conditions.  

• Eden’s HotHouse: Nature of Leadership programme focuses on how you can change things for the better in your organisation, business, or community.  

Work out what matters most and do it together.  

• Eden Project Communities runs programmes and activities that encourage people to work together to create happy and healthy communities.

• The Doughnut Economics Action Lab is putting ecological economics into practise, working with businesses and organisations to transform the way we think about the economy.

• The People’s Plan for Nature outlines actions for individuals, communities, businesses and governments, so we can all contribute to change. 

Push for change and build hope and agency by turning talk into positive action. 

• Fridays for Future is a youth-led movement (started by Greta Thunberg) putting moral pressure on policy makers to take action.  

• The Climate Coalition is a group of over 140 organisations in the UK who are committed to tackling climate change.  

• Students Organising for Sustainability support students and society to learn, act and lead for environmental justice.