Climate Solutions
About Climate Solutions
Global Green believes in leading by example and showcasing cost-effective smart solutions to global warming that can be implemented today.
Global Green combines a global messaging campaign with highly visible regional projects that promote the viability of solar and renewable energy production, transform energy use in our buildings and advocate for fuel-efficient vehicles. This unique cross-cutting communications, research, program and policy approach makes its advocacy incredibly effective and persuasive.
Climate Change Policy
To achieve the goal of truly stemming global climate change, we must fundamentally transform the way we power our global economy. Such a transformation will require all of us to engage in a concerted effort over the near and long-term, to seek out opportunities and design actions to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions. Global Green is working on several fronts to help stem global climate change including policy and advocacy.
Climate Initiatives
Global Solar Report Card
Current solar technology has the ability to deliver 4 times the annual world demand for power while creating new jobs in manufacturing and installations. Governments must foster environments that are conducive to solar markets growth. The Global Solar Report Cards offer a snapshot of 16 countries' efforts to date and policy frameworks moving forward.
Red Carpet, Green Cars
Each year around the Academy Awards, Global Green helps bring attention to the importance of green building and clean cars as key solutions to global warming. Our annual Pre-Oscar Party kicks off the Red Carpet/Green Cars Oscar campaign, which provides fuel-efficient vehicles for celebrities attending the Oscars in lieu of gas-guzzling limousines.
Pole Expeditions
Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are showing definitive signs of global warming. Global Green USA, in conjunction with other Green Cross International affiliates and it's own board member Sebastian Copeland, is bringing attention to these areas through expeditions that hilight the imminent danger caused by these warming trends.
Global Solar Fund
Global Green and Green Cross International first presented the call for a $50 billion global solar fund in Bonn at the Intergovernmental Renewables 2004 conference. The Fund's objective is to highlight a way to drive down the cost of solar for the energy poor in the developing world, and to reduce peak demand in urban centers.
Publications
Global Solar Report Card
The Global Solar Report Card by Global Green USA and Green Cross International outlines successes and failures in 16 countries’ (and the state of California’s) efforts in designing promising policy frameworks for sustained solar development. It finds all countries still in the early phases of solar deployment. The ranking is based on a 100-point system that allocates points for the amount of solar installed so far, as well as for drivers of future growth, including financial and regulatory incentives, and educational and advocacy efforts.
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Solar City Report: How Los Angeles can Gain the Economic and Environmental Competitive Edge
Global Green USA's proposal for the City of Los Angeles to develop its solar resources by committing to "carving out" 1% (80 megawatts) of its electrical generation capacity for photovoltaic technology. Benefits for the City include economic development opportunities, stabilizing electric rates, improving air quality and reducing green house gas emissions. Winter 2005.
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