Climate action is a vital and urgent global response to the escalating challenges posed by climate change. It encompasses a range of proactive efforts aimed at mitigating and adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change, with the overarching goal of preserving the planet's ecological balance and ensuring a sustainable future for all. Mitigation: Mitigation involves actions aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere to curb global warming and its associated effects. This includes transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, improving energy efficiency, adopting sustainable transportation, and implementing afforestation and reforestation projects. Mitigation efforts also encompass carbon capture and storage technologies, waste reduction, and sustainable land management practices. Adaptation: Adaptation focuses on building resilience to the changing climate by preparing for and responding to its impacts. This involves developing strategies to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the adverse effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and shifting precipitation patterns. Adaptation initiatives may include creating climate-resilient infrastructure, implementing water management solutions, and enhancing disaster preparedness and response. International Cooperation: Climate action requires global collaboration, as climate change knows no borders. International agreements like the Paris Agreement play a central role in uniting countries around shared goals to limit global temperature rise and enhance adaptive capacity. Nations commit to setting emission reduction targets, regularly reporting progress, and cooperating on technology transfer and financial support to vulnerable countries. Sustainable Development: Climate action is intertwined with sustainable development, emphasizing the need to balance economic growth with environmental stewardship and social equity. Integrating climate considerations into development planning ensures that efforts to address climate change also uplift communities, promote clean technologies, and foster a green economy. Public Awareness and Advocacy: Raising public awareness and fostering a sense of urgency about climate change is crucial. Education campaigns, grassroots movements, and advocacy efforts help mobilize individuals, communities, and governments to take meaningful action. Youth activists, scientists, and civil society organizations play a pivotal role in driving the climate agenda forward.

1. Climate Action
Ms. Leneka Rhoden,
MPhil Candidate
The University of West Indies, Mona

2. Case Study: Palau-
Actions to Save an
Island (Climate
Change)

4. Palau was
the first country
to ban?
a) Plastics
b) Sunscreen
c) Sugar Drinks
d) Deforestation

5. Climate Action:
It contains a transparency framework to build
trust and confidence.
It serves as an important tool in mobilizing
finance, technological support and capacity
building for developing countries.
It will also help to scale up global efforts to
address and minimize loss and damage from
climate change.

6. LEVELS OF CLIMATE ACTION
Individual Collective Global

7. Tropical Forest Protection and
Restoration

8. OVERVIEW:
There are many reasons to protect and restore forests, not least of all
because they sequester carbon.
Project Drawdown estimates that protecting currently degraded land and
allowing natural growth of tropical forests to occur on 161-231 million hectares
would sequester 54.5 to 85.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050.

9. Individual:
• Choose Rainforest Alliance Certified
products, for those essentials you can’t
buy locally, such as coffee, bananas, tea,
and chocolate.
• Products bearing green frog seal are
sourced from farms that use responsible
methods to maximize yield on existing
cropland.

10. Collective:
• You can amplify your individual impact by
supporting our work to train farming and
forest communities in sustainable land
management, agroforestry, and
reforestation.

11. Global:
• Support Indigenous and local land rights around the world. Not
only is this the right thing to do, it is better for climate:
Numerous studies show that Indigenous people are the most
effective forest guardians, and we need their leadership now
more than ever.

12. ENACTING POLICY:
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/106
65/342554/9789240023161-
eng.pdf?sequence=1

13. Successful Climate
Campaigns and Lessons:

14. Connect4Climate
• Very rarely do organisations hand over creative control to students
from around the world, but Connect4Climate did just that with its
iChange competition. In a blog for the network, programme manager
Lucia Grenna wrote:
“When made aware, students are able to articulate and amplify climate
change messages...we set out to harness their peer power and
facilitate students' ability to promote action, offer solutions, and inspire
real change.”

15. Greenpeace and TckTckTck
• Reforming policy is crucial to stopping climate
change, so Greenpeace and TckTckTck teamed up
in 2009, they had their eyes firmly set on leaders
attending the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen.
The billboard campaign featured the likes of Barack
Obama and Angela Merkel as imagined in 2020.
TckTckTck's executive director Kelly Rigg told us:
“I thought these ads were very powerful because they
held individual leaders personally responsible for their
actions. They offered an opportunity for leaders to
choose a more positive future by acting in the
present.”

16. Your Plastic Diet
• The WWF launched a campaign that uses
plastic household objects to highlight the
amount of plastic people are ingesting.
• The campaign, created by Grey, was based on
research by the WWF that found people were
consuming about 2,000 small pieces of plastic
every week – the equivalent to five grams a
week, 21 grams a month. According to the
WWF, five grams of plastic is the equivalent
weight of a credit card.
• A website, www.yourplasticdiet.com, was also
been set up to allow people to take a test based
on their individual diet and use the study
findings to determine their likely personal
weekly plastic intake.

17. THANK YOU!
Ms. Leneka Rhoden
lenekarhoden@gmail.com