Calculating your carbon footprint
Planning a climate-neutral region
This section will discuss how we can respond to climate change in Northeast Ohio — reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to fair, global levels, while stimulating innovation and regional competitiveness.
For the following reasons, it's incredibly important that we do this:
- There's an overwhelming, international, scientific consensus that climate change is real and poses a serious threat to the future stability of the earth's life support systems and, therefore, to human civilization. As Time magazine said in a cover story, "Be worried. Be very worried."
- Climate change is being caused by unprecedented, human-generated emissions of carbon-based greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
- The world community is moving toward market-based trading systems and/or taxes to regulate carbon emissions. It is in economic self-interest of communities and businesses in Northeast Ohio to adapt earlier rather than later.
- Beyond our economic self-interest, we have a moral obligation to reduce our American, super-sized carbon emissions to a fair level that allows poor people around the world room to achieve a higher quality of life.
The links below take you to pages that discuss our climate challenge in Northeast Ohio — what you can do about it, what local businesses and organizations can do, what we can do as a region, and what could be the impacts. For more background on climate change — what it is and the outpouring of scientific research — see the science and policy link.
Tell Brown, Voinovich to support strong global warming solutions
trbiii Says:Friends,
Now is a key time to encourage Ohio's Senators Brown and Voinovich to support immediate, mandatory action to cap and cut dangerous global warming. Can you write them to signal your support for strong climate policies when the U.S. Senate debates this issues in June?
See below for an action alert on these issues from the Ohio League of Conservation Voters.
Sincerely,
Tom Bullock, Pew Environment Group
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From the Sustainable Ohio Action Partnership
Want to know why I'm so hopeful? After seven years of watching Big Oil pay off politicians to block all global warming legislation, we may finally break through.
The Climate Security Act, which will soon be voted on in the Senate, shows promising first steps by calling for significant reductions in the emission of global warming pollutants.
But it's not enough in the face of a global warming catastrophe, and this is a critical opportunity to demand the precise solutions we need. For one, the bill needs to cut global warming pollution levels 80% by 2050.
Send your senators a note TODAY urging them to strengthen the Climate Security Act and pass a strong bill.
We're talking about the planet's survival or extinction. We cannot waste this opportunity. And we shouldn't settle for anything less than the strongest, most ambitious law possible.
Specific changes that will improve the bill:
To strengthen the Climate Security Act and see a strong bill become law, your senators need to hear from you today. Global warming bills don't come along every day. That's why it's so critical that we do it right.
Tell your senators not to settle for less—we need the strongest global warming bill possible!
Thank you for your support on this critical issue.
Sincerely,
Mike Eckhardt
Policy Director
Ohio League of Conservation Voters
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