Climate change is the result of the use of fossil fuels that has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere overtime. According to Politifact, 18 scientific organizations agree that humans are causing climate change. The increase has caused the climate to change in regional and global patterns, and not for the better.

On Hillary Clinton’s website, she outlines what she wants to do during her presidency and the long term results of what she will do. Those are to generate renewable energy to power every home, cut energy costs by a third in homes, schools, hospitals and offices, make American manufacturing the cleanest and most efficient, and reduce consumption by a third by using cleaner fuels and energy efficient cars, ships, and trucks.

Donald Trump also has a plan to fight climate change. He plans to make America more energy independent to create jobs, cleaner air and water, to implement a strategic economic and foreign policy, to use America’s own resources in gas, oil, shale, and clean coal reserves, and open on and offshore leasing on federal lands. His plan echoes The Republican Party platform on the environment.

Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, and Socialist—all recognize that Climate change is a big issue, but the all have varying answers to the solution. The Green Party’s primary concern is the environment, conversely, The Republican Party doesn’t discuss it much.  Climate change is a big issue, and there are many solutions and efforts to fix it:

1. UK Ratifying the Paris Agreement

Rowena Mason and Adam Vaughan report on Theresa May’s, UK Prime Minister, commitment to ratifying the Paris Agreement. This agreement was created within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The article states that this commitment will put her in better standings with green campaigners, after she abolished the Department of Energy and Climate Change shortly after taking her position as Prime Minister.

2. How Much Cleaner Really is a Tesla?

Bloomberg’s Anna Hirtenstein discusses how energy efficient cars affect different environments. Tesla cars are spoken of specifically as being energy efficient cars, but their effectiveness can drop up to 20 percent. The article provides data and graphs even explaining how regular engines are becoming more energy efficient. They even predict that solar energy use will be higher than coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and others by 2040. Energy efficient cars have always been known to be better for the environment. Could the increase of their use be beneficial to areas where they aren’t as effective? Is there something else that needs to be done to make those places a better environment for these cars?  In another article that is linked in this one, Dana Hull explains that there is a push in the Paris agreement for cleaner cars and trucks. These cars only produce a sixth of global carbon emissions and a fourth of those emissions in the U.S.

3. Is There Silence About Climate Change?

Andrew Revkin of The New York Times, discusses the lack of discussion on the issues of climate change will result in the silence, or unawareness of it. The author links to another article on why we react with apathy and not action to climate change. Through the data, it is shown that more people are interested in climate change, but still do not discuss it because they don’t hear other people talking about it enough. Why doesn’t one person start the conversation? More people should be talking about this issue because it is affecting us, whether we can tell or not. We have already had snow here in Vermont his year, but last year we got less snow than states south of us.

4. Climate Change Sets Back Airport Expansion

In the UK the Prime Minister, Theresa May and her cabinet are discussing the idea of adding a new runway to Heathrow airport. George Monbiot discusses how that will interfere with the UK’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, on The Guardian. Airplanes need to use kerosene which leaves a huge negative impact in the air. The UK government is proposing two ideas to get the new runway, but not violate the agreement. One idea is that there should be extra cuts on greenhouse gases elsewhere to accommodate the new runway, and the second idea introduces a carbon tax. According to Monbiot, both ideas wouldn’t be sensible.

5. Pushing More People into Poverty

Anmar Frangoul writes about how climate change could end up pushing more people into poverty. Climate change, changes the temperature which affects the crop yield, and causes food prices to rise. However, the Frangoul, taking from report from the Food and Agriculture Organization, writes that by using heat-tolerant and nitrogen-efficient plants it could boost supply, productivity, and income. A large concern is the coffee crops because rising temperatures could wipe out the areas where coffee could be grown. As coffee will be in very high demand by the end of the century, but rising temperatures could lead to drought, which also would affect water security.

6. Reducing HFC’s to Dent Global Warming

The Tampa Bay Times published an Associated Press article that discusses the the nations attempt to pass an agreement to remove hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) from air conditioners and refrigerators. HFC’s came about in the 80’s to get rid of ozone-depleting gases, but HFC’s can emit as much pollution as 300 coal-fired power plants each year. They are one of the world’s fastest growing climate pollutants, and they will become more prominent as air conditioning and refrigerator sales will rise significantly, in the coming years. By removing HFC’s from air conditioners and refrigerators could decrease global warming by half a degree Celsius by the end of the century.

Each of these examples may seem like little things that will only put dents into global warming and climate change.  Instead of having one solution regarding climate change, we need all of these “little things” to work simultaneously to alter global warming, to be a global solution.