Global Solutions & Outreach Programs: Humanity’s best chance to resolve global warming, Part 2: Global warming solutions

Abstract

In “Global Solutions & Outreach Programs: Humanity’s best chance to resolve global warming, Part 1: Global warming challenges,” we discussed the challenges that are preventing humanity from resolving global warming. We are facing an existential threat. To mitigate these biases, the Global Solutions and Outreach Programs (GSOP) proposal calls for a truly global collaboration to evaluate and integrate climate solutions using the wicked- problem approach. This approach was demonstrated in the 1990s by a U.S. Army-funded project led by Dr. Richard (Dick) Hutchinson. The project involved two hundred and seventy (270) professionals from national laboratories and other U.S. government agencies to provide effective verification measures at the international chemical weapons convention then being negotiated in Geneva. GSOP evaluation and integration of climate solutions will be undertaken by multiple teams of engineers, economists, social experts, and political experts within each country. This work will be done outside of, yet informing, governments, the marketplace, and public opinion. Country Action Plans will be rolled up to regional and global levels. The GSOP work will be iterated until the global action plan provides a resolution of global warming at the scale of Earth. Part 2 describes our GSOP proposal.