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Apr 8, 2022, 8 tweets

🌏 We only have three years left to avert the worst consequences of #climate change, a sobering report from the @UN warned on Monday.

Here are the 5️⃣ solutions that scientists say can make a dent in the #ClimateCrisis right now. 👇

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1️⃣ Cities and urban areas make up two-thirds of all global emissions, according to the new #IPCCReport.

🚌 Redesigning urban transportation could cut about one-quarter of those emissions by 2050.

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2️⃣ In 2019, energy suppliers produced about 34% of all human-driven emissions worldwide, according to the IPCC report.

🔈Climate scientists' core message: We must stop using fossil fuels as quickly as possible.

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3️⃣ Nearly one-fifth of all the energy sector's emissions are methane — a powerful gas with 30 times the heat-trapping potential of carbon dioxide.

💨 A drop in methane emissions can help rapidly reduce the speed of #GlobalWarming.

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4️⃣ Landfills are the third-largest source of methane emissions in the US, and food waste is the largest category of garbage.

🥬 Wasting less food is a simple lifestyle change that individuals can make in developed countries.

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5️⃣ Trees thrive by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in their tissues — a powerful tool to fight the climate crisis.

🌳The IPCC report calls for protecting forests across the planet from deforestation and planting more.

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"There are no silver bullets. We need to do it all," @stephanieroe, a lead author on the report and a climate scientist at @WWF, told @thisisinsider.

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Follow @SciInsider for more information on the climate crisis and read the full article below.

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