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==References==
References are lacking throughout. ] (]) 01:55, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
: What do you mean? ] (]) 20:14, 21 January 2024 (UTC)


== Adapting the same wording as used at ]? ==
== Change Title? ==
I think we should change the title to either "Mitigation of climate change (global warming)" or "Mitigation of climate change". I think 'climate change' better captures the complexity of the issue (i.e. some areas are expected to cool not warm, weather and precipitation patterns will change, etc.). In other words global warming is misleading because increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause more than just increased temperature. ] (]) 19:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC).

== Paul Crutzen ==
I put in a reference to ]. He is a Nobel Prize winner so he is notable and he was already referenced in the footnotes. I am not related to him so I don't understand how ] would apply. ] 20:37, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
*It appears to have been a tit-for-tat response by {{user|Superdeterminism}}, whose content describing ] was removed in . ] 10:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

== A-Class article? ==

Using a bot, I saw that this is an A-Class article. However, there's no template listing it an A-Class article in this talk page. Can someone confirm its quality? ] 15:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

==Nuclear power redux==
The nuclear discussion here is horribly out of date. A 1997 study will neither account for the greatly improved capacity factors, the new simplified and less-expensive plant designs, nor the imminent switchover of enrichment from gaseous diffusion to the much lower power requirements of gas centrifuges. Right now, the newest studies are summarized in ], although we intend to move them to a more-general article. I will try to find a more recent comparison. ] 00:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

:After only a smidgen of looking, I found which has a very nice table showing the results of 5 comparative studies. I'll try to incorporate it into the article. ] 01:09, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

::Found which offers many Life Cycle Analysis calculations of energy invested as a % of energy generated. But though this is a March, 2006 summary the usual problems apply -- an 80% lifetime capacity factor is far too low, and today's plant offering last a minimum of 60 years not 40. ] 01:42, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I've done a little work on the section, but it's still a bit of a mess frankly.

It previously stated:

* That ] technology would lead to energy saving ''in the future''. In fact the only ] still in use is in the USA and possibly Russia, Western Europe went all-centrifuge decades ago, and even the USA now has significant centrifuge capacity. The USA still has some of the enormous enrichment infrastructure built for the ], but there have been no new G-D plants built for a long while, and the remainder won't be long in closing.

* That nuclear power ''could in the future'' be used to eliminate the greenhouse emissions associated with enrichment... actually, the French centrifuge plants have never used any other power source.

* That if the same principle were to be applied to renewables, i.e. that they were held responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions produced in manufacturing and erecting the power plants, then as a result these sources would generally cease to be greenhouse-neutral as well. This is dangerously close to ] I think, but it's an excellent point and in the interests of ] it needs to be there... surely we can source the statement somewhere, and rephrase it to be a bit clearer than it is at present?

It's a rapidly changing scene... ] 07:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

==US Gov't Action==
I added a section as follows to the section on Government Response, but it was removed recently. Given that the US produces approx. 25% of the world's greenhouse gasses, and given that the US gov't has taken a leadership position in opposing or undermining efforts by most other industrialized countries to take concrete steps to reduce such emissions, the sections I added, which discuss US gov't efforts to suppress American scientists attempting to publish their findings, and actively to mislead the public, are quite significant to the issue covered by this article, the mitigation of global warming, and in particular, are quite pertinent to this section about government responses. Here is the section, comments as to its relevance are welcome. I apologize for the long post:

U.S. government attempts to mislead the public
- The U.S. government has pressured American scientists to suppress discussion of global warming, according to the testimony of the Union of Concerned Scientists to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.<ref>Reuters, January 30, 2007, free archived version at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0130-10.htm, last visited Jan. 30, '07</ref><ref>Written testimony of Dr. Grifo before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 30, 2007, archived at http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070130113153-55829.pdf</ref> "High-quality science" was "struggling to get out," as the Bush administration pressured scientists to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of an ex-oil industry lobbyist. "Nearly half of all respondents perceived or personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words 'climate change,' 'global warming' or other similar terms from a variety of communications." Similarly, according to the testimony of senior officers of the ], the White House attempted to bury the report "National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variablity and Change," produced by U.S. scientists pursuant to U.S. law.<ref>written testimony of Rick Piltz before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives on January 30, 2007, archived at http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/20070130113813-92288.pdf last visited Jan. 30, 07</ref> Some U.S. scientists resigned their jobs rather than give in to White House pressure to underreport global warming.<ref>Reuters, January 30, 2007, free archived version at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0130-10.htm, last visited Jan. 30, '07</ref>
- The United States government has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.<ref>Rolling Stone, June 13, 2007, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/15148655/the_secret_campaign_of_president_george_bushs_administration_to_deny_global</ref>."'They've got a political clientele that does not want to be regulated,' says Rick Piltz, a former Bush climate official who blew the whistle on White House censorship of global-warming documents in 2005. 'Any honest discussion of the science would stimulate public pressure for a stronger policy. They're not stupid.'
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- "Bush's do-nothing policy on global warming began almost as soon as he took office. By pursuing a carefully orchestrated policy of delay, the White House has blocked even the most modest reforms and replaced them with token investments in futuristic solutions like hydrogen cars. 'It's a charade,' says Jeremy Symons, who represented the EPA on Cheney's energy task force, the industry-studded group that met in secret to craft the administration's energy policy. 'They have a single-minded determination to do nothing -- while making it look like they are doing something.' . . .
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- "The CEQ became Cheney's shadow EPA, with industry calling the shots. To head up the council, Cheney installed James Connaughton, a former lobbyist for industrial polluters, who once worked to help General Electric and ARCO skirt responsibility for their Superfund waste sites.
- "two weeks after Bush took office - ExxonMobil's top lobbyist, Randy Randol, demanded a housecleaning of the scientists in charge of studying global warming. . . .Exxon's wish was the CEQ's command. <ref>The Washington Post, June 21, 2007 "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/06/21/BL2007062101075_2.html?nav=hcmodule , citing the Rolling Stone invetigative report published 2007/6/13</ref> --] 17:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

As after three months the deleter has not stepped forward to defend the deletion, I have restored. I must ask editors to desist from deleting serious contributions unless they are prepared to defend their edits. In fact, when deleting sentences or entire paragraphs, editors should provide specific WP rules-based reasons. --] 18:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


Now that we have found suitable wording for the mitigation content at ] (in the last paragraph of the lead of that article), should we also massage the same kind of wording into the lead and main text of this article? Pinging ] as they steered that discussion so well. ] (]) 15:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
==Undue weight?==
Does the ] section lend them undue weight? The vast majority of those points are hit on elsewhere in the article. If they are only given their due here, can we get some third party, reliably sourced analysis to back 'em up? ]<sup>]</sup> 06:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


Thanks! How can I turn down such a nice request? Like a moth to a flame, here's a few thoughts on the first paragraph:
== Kangaroo stomach bacteria ==
* The existing paragraph is overlong and stilted
* 3/4ths of climate change is fossil fuel use, so that's where we should be putting most of our emphasis
* The remaining 1/4 is mostly land use. Land use is a complicated issue, as it is part of the fast carbon cycle, not the slow carbon cycle, so it's good to bring into the discussion but we shouldn't over emphasize it (more forests is not a solution, they'll eventually rot or burn)
* CO2 removal is a fringe technology, arguably on par with climate engineering (SRM). While it's a necessary part of aggressive pathways, it's also highly speculative and not the key thing to focus on here.
* We need to make it clear that actions to date are insufficient to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, which is not done in the current last sentence


Given that, here's an initial stab at a rewrite. I'm avoiding sources and wikilinks here to keep the focus on the text.
Should this study be mentioned in the article? --] (]) 15:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


{| class="wikitable"
:Briefly, the thing is that it is just a research idea. Its like that anti-conceptive for men that they have been developing since I was 12 and are still testing. ] (]) 22:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
|+ Proposal to change last para of the lead
! Current version in live article !! Proposed version
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| Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit climate change. This action either reduces emissions of greenhouse gases or removes those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global temperature is mostly due to emissions from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. There are various ways how mitigation can reduce emissions. One important way is to switch to sustainable energy sources (a process called energy transition). Other ways are to conserve energy and to increase efficiency. It is possible to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. This can be done by enlarging forests, restoring wetlands and using other natural and technical processes. The name for these processes is carbon sequestration. Governments and companies have pledged to reduce emissions to prevent dangerous climate change. These pledges are in line with international negotiations to limit warming.
|| Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit climate change. Climate change is caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Eliminating fossil fuel use involves conserving energy and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources such as wind, hydro, solar, and nuclear power. Secondary mitigation strategies include changes to land use and removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Governments and companies have pledged to reduce greehouse gas emissions, but actions to date are insufficient to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.
|}
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: Thanks a lot. This looks good. As this article is not so heavily guarded, I think we can make incremental changes in the live article without long talk page discussions preceding it. As for your proposed new first paragraph, I like it but I find the second sentence is not linked very well with neither the preceding nor the following sentence. I think we should link them better by using constructions such as "for this reason" or "because of xx, yyy is necessary" (but without generating long sentences). I don't like that the first sentence ends with "climate change", and the second sentence starts with "climate change". But the overall approach and re-focus is good. ] (]) 09:25, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


:: OK, I was bold and edited the page directly with your input here. I see what you mean about the second sentence needing better bridging, so I made changes there. If anyone objects and backs the text out we can take it up here again, but hopefully we can just edit things on the live page to get to where we want. Note I also updated sources for the lead paragraph, including cutting a few sources that seemed unnecessary. ] (]) 17:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
== Arrow ==
:::That's great, thank you. I've also made some further edits. I've put details in the edit summaries. Feel free to build on this, modify or revert. I have re-checked with the readability tool and most sentences are good, just a couple that are still in red (we can probably live with that).
:::But the lead is still a bit on the short side (only 368 words; I think we could aim for 450 to 500 words for an article of this length). Am wondering if we should add a bit on how individual action can help with mitigation? The main text has a section on it, so I think we could summarise that in the lead, e.g. more plant-based diets.
:::Maybe we could also be inspired and copy some sentences from the mitigation section of the main climate change article, i.e. from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/Climate_change#Reducing_and_recapturing_emissions
:::Interesting how that section is no longer called "mitigation" but "Reducing and recapturing emissions". Wondering if we also want to weave that language into our lead. Not too sure though if "recapturing emissions" is fully correct or abundantly clear though.] (]) 21:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
::::I took an edit pass on the second and third paragraphs, just trying to help it read better and put things in context. A key part was introducing the idea of the fast and slow carbon cycles. A major issue to debunk is the idea of "just plant trees" as a way to mitigate climate change. ] (]) 00:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
::::I think I'm done for today, feel free to go further or suggest what I should tackle next... ] (]) 17:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


== Merged ] ==
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/arrow1 Should we place it? ] (]) 07:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


I've just carried out the merger from ]. This has made the section on co-benefits a bit too long probably. I've already looked for ways of condensing. Please help with condensing this further (if you think it ought to be condensed). We are actually so lucky that CC mitigation has so many co-benefits. Imagine if it didn't, how much harder it would then be to push it through... ] (]) 08:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
== POV Issues... ==


== How do we feel about overall length? More culling? ==
I have flagged the following subsection for POV problems: ]. In the following quote, I have highlighted the section which I find to be biased:


The overall length of the article is still on the long side: 60 kB (9271 words) "readable prose size".
<blockquote><span style="background-color: yellow">The U.S. has also attempted to mislead the public about global warming.</span> The United States government has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.."'They've got a political clientele that does not want to be regulated,' says Rick Piltz, a former Bush climate official who blew the whistle on White House censorship of global-warming documents in 2005. 'Any honest discussion of the science would stimulate public pressure for a stronger policy. They're not stupid.'</blockquote>
What do folks suggest regarding options for condensing and culling. Does anything jump at you that can be condensed or even taken out? - Or do we argue that 60 kB is not too long for this kind of article. For comparison, the ] article is 54 kB. ] (]) 11:42, 16 May 2023 (UTC)


:Personally as this is such a high level subject I would prefer more excerpts but only if the excerpted articles were rated good. So in practice that probably is not going to happen any time soon. ] (]) 17:13, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
I recommend replacing the name "U.S.", with "the Bush administration." I feel that making a clear distinction between the ] and the ] will preserve the ] of this article. If, by tomorrow, there are no objections, then I will perform the edit I have recommended. <br/>
:: General comment: I'm very wary of excerpting, since they often bring unintended and nonobvious consequences in unspecified locations. —<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:dark blue;background-color:transparent;;">] (])</span> 19:49, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
–] (]) 03:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


::: There's always room for updating and conciseness. I think that as public consciousness—along with related political controversy—continues to grow, mitigation will rise in importance, bringing an even greater need for updating and conciseness. As ] has been promoted to Good Article status, the present article might be high on the community's to-do list. —<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;color:dark blue;background-color:transparent;;">] (])</span> 19:46, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
<strong>P.S.—</strong>I also recommend changing the term "United States government" with the term "Bush administration". –] (]) 03:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


:::: Agreed. I think condensing is needed but am unsure which sections in particular need to be condensed, given ] considerations. And it would be great if the wider Misplaced Pages editing community took an interest. We have come a long way with this article. was quite shocking! 101 kB long and rambling and all over the place, impossible to read and understand. I think we should roughly aim for no longer than 50 kB (which means culling by about 15% compared to the current length).
<strong>P.P.S.—</strong>There are other ] problems with this subsection which I have yet to address. Unfortunately, I'm a little under the weather at the moment (I've got a chest-cold, and my doctor prescribed a ], which has kind of knocked me out), so I'm a bit too tired to go into greater detail. However, I ''do'' plan on addressing them in greater detail after I've recovered a bit. <br/>
:::: Looking at the section sizes (see link at the top of the talk page), I have the following suggestions:
–] (]) 03:59, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
# The section "Preserving and enhancing carbon sinks" has perhaps become a bit too long (perhaps we should rely more on the sub-article ] to provide people with details).
# Also "mitigation by sector" is probably too long (given that this is covered anyway at ]
# Is the section "policies" too long and detailed, given the myriad of sub-articles on this topic?
# Maybe we should drop the entire "example by country" section? Then again, US, China and EU are probably the three most important players (?). The section on the US is anyway only an excerpt, so it doesn't add to the overall word count. Still, perhaps remove all three examples? ] (]) 07:57, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
::::: I came back to this one year later and the article has become even longer in the meantime, currently at 63 kB! I think it would be good to get it down to say 58 kB. I had a look at the "section sizes" table at the top of the talk page to see which sections stood out as being overly long. I then condensed the content in:
:::::* Health and wellbeing
:::::* ‎Integrating variable renewable energy
:::::* National policies
:::::* Soils
::::: What do you all think? I think it would make this article more useful for our readers if we looked carefully for paragraphs with excessive detail and moved those to sub-articles. Also we need to ensure that the overall balance and ] is just right. ] (]) 14:30, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


I would like to add information about simple ways we the people can prevent global warming. Would this be relevent to this topic?--] (]) 18:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


== Wikiproject Earth ==


:Hi ], I've removed this recently added content of yours, because I regard this as excessive detail for a high level article that is already overly long. Look for another article to inculde it in, e.g. greenhouse gas emissions or the one on AI maybe?:
] --]]] <small>—Preceding ] was added at 15:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)</small><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:"AI-driven optimization and predictive maintenance in industrial processes are emerging as key strategies to enhance energy efficiency and reduce emissions, particularly in energy-intensive sectors like steel and cement.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Akomea-Frimpong |first=Isaac |last2=Dzagli |first2=Jacinta Rejoice Ama Delali |last3=Eluerkeh |first3=Kenneth |last4=Bonsu |first4=Franklina Boakyewaa |last5=Opoku-Brafi |first5=Sabastina |last6=Gyimah |first6=Samuel |last7=Asuming |first7=Nana Ama Sika |last8=Atibila |first8=David Wireko |last9=Kukah |first9=Augustine Senanu |date=2023-12-25 |title=A systematic review of artificial intelligence in managing climate risks of PPP infrastructure projects |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ECAM-01-2023-0016/full/html |journal=Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management |language=en |doi=10.1108/ECAM-01-2023-0016 |issn=0969-9988}}</ref>" ] (]) 12:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
:{{reflist-talk}} ] (]) 12:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)


== Image cut from article ==
==Discussion of possible merge with Low Carbon Economy==
===Let's not merge===
I don't know who put the merge tag on this article, but I see no discussion regarding this suggestion. As I look over the two articles, I suggest that we NOT merge the two articles. --] <sup> ]</sup> 15:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


I removed this image as it's extremely hard to read. ] ] (] <nowiki>&#124;</nowiki> ]) 21:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
:I agree, no merge should be done. The Low Carbon Economy deals specifically with non-carbon technologies, and this mitigation article includes other topics - such as efficiency improvements, dealing with waste methane, population, geoengineering, etc. that have zero to do with Low Carbon. This article is already long, and I wouldn't want to see Low Carbon merged into it, even though there is obviously some overlap. Low Carbon might be able to serve as a sort of sub-article though, allowing some information to be generalized here and treated in detail there. ] (]) 13:21, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


== Content on degrowth for the section on demand reduction? ==
:I agree with the above, absolutely do not merge. And this has been put almost a year ago, could anyone please delete the merge proposition?] (]) 15:12, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


There is a discussion on the talk page of ] whether this text block, called "degrowth", should be moved back to here where it once was before I moved it to the sub-article. It could perhaps fit under the section of "demand reduction" but it sounds somehow wordy/academic to me, and it might overlap with existing content. I have no clear opinion on this, other to say that the article ] is on the long side already. It's 64 kB and we put a lot of effort into shrinking it down to this size. This is the text block in question:
==Usefulness of Efficiency/Conservation==
I'd like to see more discussion about the usefulness of efficiency or conservation here. "Improved efficiency lowers cost, which in turn increases demand. To ensure that increases in efficiency actually reduces energy use, a tax must be imposed to remove any cost savings from improved efficiency." But even if fossil fuel use was successfully reduced, then that just means we'll use it later - ie, we'll run out later. This has nothing to do with mitigating global warming, it merely delays it by a few years. Or is that the idea? Or is the point that a tax on fossil fuel use will make a certain amount of fossil fuel non-feasibly extractable? Don't get me wrong, there are tons of reasons to conserve, I'm just wondering what this has to do with "mitigation of global warming." ] (]) 23:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


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It would be worthy to point out that the article talks about how urban planning and neighborhood design can decrease energy demand (I'd like to point out that many other "old" technologies become quite useful and more profitable at higher densities (recycling, district heating and cooling, symbiotic waste practices (waste-to-energy, heat reclamation, industrial I/O exchange). I think there's something in common with your point-- if density solves curbing energy consumption and provides alternatives that further cut energy overhead... what would be the point in also investing in a bunch of technocratic fixes that cause more consumption and leverage higher building costs?
'''Degrowth'''


There is a debate about a potentially critical need for new ways of economic accounting, including directly monitoring and ] positive real-world environmental effects such as air quality improvements and related unprofitable ] like forest protection, alongside far-reaching structural changes of lifestyles<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas Wiedmann |author2=Manfred Lenzen |author3=Lorenz T. Keyßer |author4=] |date=19 June 2020 |title=Scientists' warning on affluence |journal=Nature Communications |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=3107 |bibcode=2020NatCo..11.3107W |doi=10.1038/s41467-020-16941-y |pmc=7305220 |pmid=32561753 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Why GDP is no longer the most effective measure of economic success |url=https://www.worldfinance.com/strategy/why-gdp-is-no-longer-the-most-effective-measure-of-economic-success |access-date=17 September 2020 |website=www.worldfinance.com}}</ref> as well as acknowledging and moving beyond the limits of current economics such as GDP.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kapoor |first1=Amit |last2=Debroy |first2=Bibek |author-link2=Bibek Debroy |date=4 October 2019 |title=GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being |url=https://hbr.org/2019/10/gdp-is-not-a-measure-of-human-well-being |journal=Harvard Business Review |access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref> Some argue that for effective climate change mitigation ] has to occur, while some argue that ] could limit climate change enough while continuing high rates of traditional GDP growth.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hickel |first1=Jason |last2=Hallegatte |first2=Stéphane |year=2021 |title=Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling? |journal=Development Policy Review |language=en |volume=40 |doi=10.1111/dpr.12584 |issn=1467-7679 |s2cid=239636388|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Landler |first1=Mark |last2=Sengupta |first2=Somini |date=21 January 2020 |title=Trump and the Teenager: A Climate Showdown at Davos |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/climate/greta-thunberg-trump-davos.html |access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref> There is also research and debate about requirements of how ]s could be transformed for ] – such as how their jobs could transition harmonously into ]s – a ] – and how relevant sectors of the economy – like the ] and the ] – could be adequately supported.<ref>{{cite web |title=Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View |url=http://www.oit.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/article/wcms_165282.pdf |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=van der Ree |first1=Kees |date=1 June 2019 |title=Promoting Green Jobs: Decent Work in the Transition to Low-Carbon, Green Economies |journal=International Development Policy {{!}} Revue internationale de politique de développement |language=en |issue=11 |pages=248–271 |doi=10.4000/poldev.3107 |issn=1663-9375 |s2cid=197784487|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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While degrowth is often believed to be associated with decreased ]s and ] measures, many of its proponents seek to expand universal public goods<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hickel|first1=Jason|author-link1=Jason Hickel|last2=Kallis|first2=Giorgos|author-link2=Giorgos Kallis|last3=Jackson|first3=Tim|author-link3=Tim Jackson (economist)|last4=O'Neill|first4=Daniel W.|last5=Schor|first5=Juliet B.|author-link5=Juliet Schor|last6=Steinberger|first6=Julia K.|author-link6=Julia Steinberger|display-authors=etal.|date=December 12, 2022|title=Degrowth can work — here's how science can help|url= |journal=]|volume=612|issue=7940|pages=400–403|doi=10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x|pmid=36510013 |bibcode=2022Natur.612..400H |s2cid=254614532 |access-date=|quote=Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being.|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/planned-degrowth/|title=Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human Development|last=Foster|first=John Bellamy|author-link=John Bellamy Foster|date=July 1, 2023 |website=] |publisher= |access-date=August 24, 2023 |quote=Degrowth, in this sense, is not aimed at austerity, but at finding a "prosperous way down" from our current extractivist, wasteful, ecologically unsustainable, maldeveloped, exploitative, and unequal, class-hierarchical world. Continued growth would occur in some areas of the economy, made possible by reductions elsewhere. Spending on fossil fuels, armaments, private jets, sport utility vehicles, second homes, and advertising would need to be cut in order to provide room for growth in such areas as regenerative agriculture, food production, decent housing, clean energy, accessible health care, universal education, community welfare, public transportation, digital connectivity, and other areas related to green production and social needs.}}</ref> (such as public transport), increase health<ref name="10.1057/s41285-017-0032-7">{{cite journal |last1=Borowy |first1=Iris |last2=Aillon |first2=Jean-Louis |date=1 August 2017 |title=Sustainable health and degrowth: Health, health care and society beyond the growth paradigm |journal=Social Theory & Health |language=en |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=346–368 |doi=10.1057/s41285-017-0032-7 |issn=1477-822X |s2cid=152144759}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aillon |first1=J. |last2=Cardito |first2=M. |date=2020 |title=Health and Degrowth in times of Pandemic |url=https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/issue/download/495/Visions%20for%20Sustainability%20%2314%20-%20Full%20Issue#page=3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Missoni |first1=Eduardo |author-link1=Eduardo Missoni |date=1 July 2015 |title=Degrowth and health: local action should be linked to global policies and governance for health |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-015-0300-1 |journal=Sustainability Science |language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=439–450 |doi=10.1007/s11625-015-0300-1 |bibcode=2015SuSc...10..439M |issn=1862-4057 |quote=Volume and increase of spending in the health sector contribute to economic growth, but do not consistently relate with better health. Instead, unsatisfactory health trends, health systems' inefficiencies, and high costs are linked to the globalization of a growth society dominated by neoliberal economic ideas and policies of privatization, deregulation, and liberalization. A degrowth approach, understood as frame that connects diverse ideas, concepts, and proposals alternative to growth as a societal objective, can contribute to better health and a more efficient use of health systems. |s2cid=55806403}}</ref> (fitness, wellbeing<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Büchs |first1=Milena |last2=Koch |first2=Max |date=1 January 2019 |title=Challenges for the degrowth transition: The debate about wellbeing |journal=Futures |language=en |volume=105 |pages=155–165 |doi=10.1016/j.futures.2018.09.002 |issn=0016-3287 |quote=The first part reviews the arguments that degrowth proponents have put forward on the ways in which degrowth can maintain or even improve wellbeing. It also outlines why the basic needs approach is most suitable for conceptualising wellbeing in a degrowth context. The second part considers additional challenges to maintaining or even improving current levels of wellbeing under degrowth |s2cid=149731503|doi-access=free }}</ref> and freedom from diseases) and increase various forms of, often unconventional commons-oriented,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kostakis |first1=Vasilis |last2=Latoufis |first2=Kostas |last3=Liarokapis |first3=Minas |last4=Bauwens |first4=Michel |date=1 October 2018 |title=The convergence of digital commons with local manufacturing from a degrowth perspective: Two illustrative cases |journal=Journal of Cleaner Production |language=en |volume=197 |pages=1684–1693 |doi=10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.077 |bibcode=2018JCPro.197.1684K |issn=0959-6526 |quote=A large part of the activity taking place under the CBPP umbrella presents a lot of similarities with the degrowth concept of unpaid work and decommodification (Nierling, 2012). The majority of "peers" engaged in commons-oriented projects are motivated by passion, communication, learning and enrichment (Benkler, 2006, 2011). Kostakis et al. (2015, 2016) have only theoretically and conceptually explored the contours of an emerging productive model that builds on the convergence of the digital commons of knowledge, software and design with local manufacturing technologies. They tentatively call it "design global, manufacture local" |s2cid=43975556}}</ref> labor. To this end, the application of both advanced technologies and reductions in various demands, including via overall reduced labor time<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scarrow |first1=Ryan |date=April 2018 |title=Work and degrowth |journal=Nature Sustainability |language=en |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=159 |doi=10.1038/s41893-018-0057-5 |bibcode=2018NatSu...1..159S |issn=2398-9629 |s2cid=149576398}}</ref> or sufficiency-oriented strategies,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haberl |first1=Helmut |last2=Wiedenhofer |first2=Dominik |last3=Virág |first3=Doris |last4=Kalt |first4=Gerald |last5=Plank |first5=Barbara |last6=Brockway |first6=Paul |last7=Fishman |first7=Tomer |last8=Hausknost |first8=Daniel |last9=Krausmann |first9=Fridolin |last10=Leon-Gruchalski |first10=Bartholomäus |last11=Mayer |first11=Andreas |last12=Pichler |first12=Melanie |last13=Schaffartzik |first13=Anke |last14=Sousa |first14=Tânia |last15=Streeck |first15=Jan |date=10 June 2020 |title=A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights |journal=Environmental Research Letters |language=en |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=065003 |bibcode=2020ERL....15f5003H |doi=10.1088/1748-9326/ab842a |issn=1748-9326 |last16=Creutzig |first16=Felix |author16-link=Felix Creutzig |s2cid=216453887|doi-access=free }}</ref> are considered to be important by some.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hickel |first1=Jason|author-link1=Jason Hickel|date=3 October 2021 |title=What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification |journal=Globalizations |volume=18 |issue=7 |pages=1105–1111 |doi=10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222 |issn=1474-7731 |s2cid=221800076|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021Glob...18.1105H }}</ref><ref name="10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102168">{{cite journal |last1=Millward-Hopkins |first1=Joel |last2=Steinberger |first2=Julia K. |last3=Rao |first3=Narasimha D. |last4=Oswald |first4=Yannick |date=1 November 2020 |title=Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario |journal=Global Environmental Change |language=en |volume=65 |pages=102168 |doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102168 |issn=0959-3780 |s2cid=224977493|doi-access=free |bibcode=2020GEC....6502168M }}</ref>
This article is under 100% full protection. Where is explanation given for this protection and why do I not even see a lock or a notice on either the article or the talk page. I will double post this to the help desk as action is needed. -] <sup>(] • ])</sup> 04:07, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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:Seems to be semi-protected at the moment. Someone who can edit it please add a link to ]. ] (]) 21:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
::Just made that unref'd stub a redirect to ]. ] (]) 00:06, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


Note also my proposal on the talk page of ] to delete outdated content and to merge the rest into ]. The of ] are very low (about 20 per day), and the recent engagement of editors with that article is also very low, which has led to a lot of outdated content (a lot of that outdated content I've already deleted last week). ] (]) 09:22, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
== Burying charcoal ==


{{reflist-talk}} ] (]) 09:22, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
] recommends in a non-biodegradable fashion. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this form of mitigation? ] (]) 02:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
:As this is more of a question then anything to do with improving the article, I suggest people answer ] ] (]) 06:23, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
:: and check the top 10 links ] (]) 09:33, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
:::] has a great deal of pertinent information. ] (]) 16:52, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

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(Top) 9,432 9,432
Definitions and scope 2,020 2,020
Emission trends and pledges 9,519 16,020
Needed emissions cuts 2,473 2,473
Pledges 4,028 4,028
Low-carbon energy 4,601 24,187
Solar and wind energy 4,622 4,622
Other renewables 3,651 3,651
Integrating variable renewable energy 7,749 7,749
Nuclear power 3,432 3,432
Replacing coal with natural gas 132 132
Demand reduction 4,123 20,592
Energy conservation and efficiency 3,048 3,048
Lifestyle changes 6,045 6,045
Dietary change 4,736 4,736
Family size 2,640 2,640
Preserving and enhancing carbon sinks 6,759 40,738
Forests 153 12,294
Conservation 3,847 3,847
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Soils 7,316 7,316
Wetlands 6,958 6,958
Deep ocean 6,287 6,287
Enhanced weathering 1,124 1,124
Other methods to capture and store CO2 markup removed; cannot link (help) 5,602 5,602
Mitigation by sector 807 34,141
Buildings 5,854 5,854
Urban planning 1,892 1,892
Transport 6,437 12,450
Shipping 2,546 2,546
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Agriculture, forestry and land use 7,124 7,124
Industry 6,014 6,014
Co-benefits 4,662 22,700
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Health and well-being 8,767 8,767
Climate change adaptation 2,917 2,917
Negative side effects 1,631 1,631
Costs and funding 9,113 13,821
Avoided costs of climate change effects 2,618 2,618
Distributing emissions abatement costs 1,459 1,459
Funding 631 631
Policies 16 14,840
National policies 9,363 12,790
Carbon pricing 3,427 3,427
International agreements 1,813 2,034
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History 5,669 5,669
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China 1,369 1,369
European Union 2,507 2,507
Related approaches 26 2,077
Relationship with solar radiation modification (SRM) 2,051 2,051
See also 231 231
References 476 476
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References are lacking throughout. 2600:1700:2E10:A80:684B:ED49:AD8B:5620 (talk) 01:55, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean? EMsmile (talk) 20:14, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Adapting the same wording as used at climate change?

Now that we have found suitable wording for the mitigation content at climate change (in the last paragraph of the lead of that article), should we also massage the same kind of wording into the lead and main text of this article? Pinging User:Efbrazil as they steered that discussion so well. EMsmile (talk) 15:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! How can I turn down such a nice request? Like a moth to a flame, here's a few thoughts on the first paragraph:

  • The existing paragraph is overlong and stilted
  • 3/4ths of climate change is fossil fuel use, so that's where we should be putting most of our emphasis
  • The remaining 1/4 is mostly land use. Land use is a complicated issue, as it is part of the fast carbon cycle, not the slow carbon cycle, so it's good to bring into the discussion but we shouldn't over emphasize it (more forests is not a solution, they'll eventually rot or burn)
  • CO2 removal is a fringe technology, arguably on par with climate engineering (SRM). While it's a necessary part of aggressive pathways, it's also highly speculative and not the key thing to focus on here.
  • We need to make it clear that actions to date are insufficient to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, which is not done in the current last sentence

Given that, here's an initial stab at a rewrite. I'm avoiding sources and wikilinks here to keep the focus on the text.

Proposal to change last para of the lead
Current version in live article Proposed version
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit climate change. This action either reduces emissions of greenhouse gases or removes those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global temperature is mostly due to emissions from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. There are various ways how mitigation can reduce emissions. One important way is to switch to sustainable energy sources (a process called energy transition). Other ways are to conserve energy and to increase efficiency. It is possible to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. This can be done by enlarging forests, restoring wetlands and using other natural and technical processes. The name for these processes is carbon sequestration. Governments and companies have pledged to reduce emissions to prevent dangerous climate change. These pledges are in line with international negotiations to limit warming. Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit climate change. Climate change is caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. Eliminating fossil fuel use involves conserving energy and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources such as wind, hydro, solar, and nuclear power. Secondary mitigation strategies include changes to land use and removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Governments and companies have pledged to reduce greehouse gas emissions, but actions to date are insufficient to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Efbrazil (talkcontribs)

Thanks a lot. This looks good. As this article is not so heavily guarded, I think we can make incremental changes in the live article without long talk page discussions preceding it. As for your proposed new first paragraph, I like it but I find the second sentence is not linked very well with neither the preceding nor the following sentence. I think we should link them better by using constructions such as "for this reason" or "because of xx, yyy is necessary" (but without generating long sentences). I don't like that the first sentence ends with "climate change", and the second sentence starts with "climate change". But the overall approach and re-focus is good. EMsmile (talk) 09:25, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
OK, I was bold and edited the page directly with your input here. I see what you mean about the second sentence needing better bridging, so I made changes there. If anyone objects and backs the text out we can take it up here again, but hopefully we can just edit things on the live page to get to where we want. Note I also updated sources for the lead paragraph, including cutting a few sources that seemed unnecessary. Efbrazil (talk) 17:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
That's great, thank you. I've also made some further edits. I've put details in the edit summaries. Feel free to build on this, modify or revert. I have re-checked with the readability tool and most sentences are good, just a couple that are still in red (we can probably live with that).
But the lead is still a bit on the short side (only 368 words; I think we could aim for 450 to 500 words for an article of this length). Am wondering if we should add a bit on how individual action can help with mitigation? The main text has a section on it, so I think we could summarise that in the lead, e.g. more plant-based diets.
Maybe we could also be inspired and copy some sentences from the mitigation section of the main climate change article, i.e. from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/Climate_change#Reducing_and_recapturing_emissions
Interesting how that section is no longer called "mitigation" but "Reducing and recapturing emissions". Wondering if we also want to weave that language into our lead. Not too sure though if "recapturing emissions" is fully correct or abundantly clear though.EMsmile (talk) 21:48, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
I took an edit pass on the second and third paragraphs, just trying to help it read better and put things in context. A key part was introducing the idea of the fast and slow carbon cycles. A major issue to debunk is the idea of "just plant trees" as a way to mitigate climate change. Efbrazil (talk) 00:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I think I'm done for today, feel free to go further or suggest what I should tackle next... Efbrazil (talk) 17:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Merged Co-benefits of climate change mitigation

I've just carried out the merger from Co-benefits of climate change mitigation. This has made the section on co-benefits a bit too long probably. I've already looked for ways of condensing. Please help with condensing this further (if you think it ought to be condensed). We are actually so lucky that CC mitigation has so many co-benefits. Imagine if it didn't, how much harder it would then be to push it through... EMsmile (talk) 08:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

How do we feel about overall length? More culling?

The overall length of the article is still on the long side: 60 kB (9271 words) "readable prose size". What do folks suggest regarding options for condensing and culling. Does anything jump at you that can be condensed or even taken out? - Or do we argue that 60 kB is not too long for this kind of article. For comparison, the climate change article is 54 kB. EMsmile (talk) 11:42, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Personally as this is such a high level subject I would prefer more excerpts but only if the excerpted articles were rated good. So in practice that probably is not going to happen any time soon. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:13, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
General comment: I'm very wary of excerpting, since they often bring unintended and nonobvious consequences in unspecified locations. —RCraig09 (talk) 19:49, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
There's always room for updating and conciseness. I think that as public consciousness—along with related political controversy—continues to grow, mitigation will rise in importance, bringing an even greater need for updating and conciseness. As Effects of climate change has been promoted to Good Article status, the present article might be high on the community's to-do list. —RCraig09 (talk) 19:46, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Agreed. I think condensing is needed but am unsure which sections in particular need to be condensed, given WP:DUE considerations. And it would be great if the wider Misplaced Pages editing community took an interest. We have come a long way with this article. The version from one year ago was quite shocking! 101 kB long and rambling and all over the place, impossible to read and understand. I think we should roughly aim for no longer than 50 kB (which means culling by about 15% compared to the current length).
Looking at the section sizes (see link at the top of the talk page), I have the following suggestions:
  1. The section "Preserving and enhancing carbon sinks" has perhaps become a bit too long (perhaps we should rely more on the sub-article carbon sequestration to provide people with details).
  2. Also "mitigation by sector" is probably too long (given that this is covered anyway at greenhouse gas emissions
  3. Is the section "policies" too long and detailed, given the myriad of sub-articles on this topic?
  4. Maybe we should drop the entire "example by country" section? Then again, US, China and EU are probably the three most important players (?). The section on the US is anyway only an excerpt, so it doesn't add to the overall word count. Still, perhaps remove all three examples? EMsmile (talk) 07:57, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
I came back to this one year later and the article has become even longer in the meantime, currently at 63 kB! I think it would be good to get it down to say 58 kB. I had a look at the "section sizes" table at the top of the talk page to see which sections stood out as being overly long. I then condensed the content in:
  • Health and wellbeing
  • ‎Integrating variable renewable energy
  • National policies
  • Soils
What do you all think? I think it would make this article more useful for our readers if we looked carefully for paragraphs with excessive detail and moved those to sub-articles. Also we need to ensure that the overall balance and WP:DUE is just right. EMsmile (talk) 14:30, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


Hi User:Xuhang1204, I've removed this recently added content of yours, because I regard this as excessive detail for a high level article that is already overly long. Look for another article to inculde it in, e.g. greenhouse gas emissions or the one on AI maybe?:
"AI-driven optimization and predictive maintenance in industrial processes are emerging as key strategies to enhance energy efficiency and reduce emissions, particularly in energy-intensive sectors like steel and cement." EMsmile (talk) 12:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

References

  1. Akomea-Frimpong, Isaac; Dzagli, Jacinta Rejoice Ama Delali; Eluerkeh, Kenneth; Bonsu, Franklina Boakyewaa; Opoku-Brafi, Sabastina; Gyimah, Samuel; Asuming, Nana Ama Sika; Atibila, David Wireko; Kukah, Augustine Senanu (2023-12-25). "A systematic review of artificial intelligence in managing climate risks of PPP infrastructure projects". Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. doi:10.1108/ECAM-01-2023-0016. ISSN 0969-9988.

EMsmile (talk) 12:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Image cut from article

I removed this image as it's extremely hard to read.

Variable-width bar chart showing regional per capita emissions; per person emissions are around twice as high in the US compared to China, and seven times as high compared to India.
2022 Worldwide GHG emissions (per capita, by region, growth). Vertical scale shows emissions per person, and areas of rectangles indicate total emissions for countries. Though China has larger emissions, the U.S. has more emissions per person.

Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Content on degrowth for the section on demand reduction?

There is a discussion on the talk page of economics of climate change mitigation whether this text block, called "degrowth", should be moved back to here where it once was before I moved it to the sub-article. It could perhaps fit under the section of "demand reduction" but it sounds somehow wordy/academic to me, and it might overlap with existing content. I have no clear opinion on this, other to say that the article climate change mitigation is on the long side already. It's 64 kB and we put a lot of effort into shrinking it down to this size. This is the text block in question:

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Degrowth

There is a debate about a potentially critical need for new ways of economic accounting, including directly monitoring and quantifying positive real-world environmental effects such as air quality improvements and related unprofitable work like forest protection, alongside far-reaching structural changes of lifestyles as well as acknowledging and moving beyond the limits of current economics such as GDP. Some argue that for effective climate change mitigation degrowth has to occur, while some argue that eco-economic decoupling could limit climate change enough while continuing high rates of traditional GDP growth. There is also research and debate about requirements of how economic systems could be transformed for sustainability – such as how their jobs could transition harmonously into green jobs – a just transition – and how relevant sectors of the economy – like the renewable energy industry and the bioeconomy – could be adequately supported.

While degrowth is often believed to be associated with decreased living standards and austerity measures, many of its proponents seek to expand universal public goods (such as public transport), increase health (fitness, wellbeing and freedom from diseases) and increase various forms of, often unconventional commons-oriented, labor. To this end, the application of both advanced technologies and reductions in various demands, including via overall reduced labor time or sufficiency-oriented strategies, are considered to be important by some.

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