Climate action

Climate action (or climate change action) refers to a range of activities, mechanisms, policy instruments, and so forth that aim at reducing 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

Some examples of 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

Human behaviour

• Barriers to pro-environmental behaviour
• Climate change denial
• Media coverage of climate change
• Psychology of climate change denial

See also

• Causes of climate change
• Effects of climate change
• Sustainable Development Goal 13 on climate action

External links

• Climate Activism: Start Here (The Commons Library)