How can we work together to reduce global emissions by one billion tonnes a year?

In this Podcast Zaid Hassan and Lucy White discuss how groups of individuals can get together to help reduce carbon emissions through the gigatonne challenge

Averting dangerous climate change is imperative. While we know “what” should be done, there seems to be little clarity as to “how” to do it.

According to the science, global emissions need to peak and start declining by at least a billion tonnes of CO2e per year. If this doesn’t happen within the next decade we will likely see global temperatures breaching +3-6 degrees, leading to the catastrophic failure of key systems that we depend on for survival.

If you imagine the challenge of reducing a billion tonnes of emissions a year as climbing Mt Everest, how do we learn to climb such a daunting peak?