Earth:Climate action

Short description: Actions to reduce climate change

Promoting awareness is one tool for climate action.

Climate action (or climate change action) refers to a range of activities, mechanisms, policy instruments and so forth that aim to reduce the severity of human induced climate change and its impacts. "More climate action" is a central demand of the climate movement. Climate inaction is the absence of climate action.

Examples for climate action

Examples for climate action include:

• Business action on climate change
• Climate change adaptation
• Climate change mitigation
• Climate finance
• Climate movement – actions by non-governmental organizations
• Individual action on climate change
• Politics of climate change

Obstacles to achieving climate action

Human behaviour

• Barriers to pro-environmental behaviour

• Climate change denial
• Media coverage of climate change
• Psychology of climate change denial

See also

• Effects of climate change