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

• Fossil fuel divestment

• Individual action on climate change

• Politics of climate change

• Radical environmentalism

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

• Climate Action Network

• Effects of climate change

• Sustainable Development Goal 13 on climate action

References

External links

• Climate Activism: Start Here (The Commons Library)