So what can I do as an individual that will be effective in combating
climate change?

There are 6 things that you can do:
1. Write to your MP.
2. Write to your local newspaper or to national papers.
3. Donate to 2% For The Planet.
   2% For The Planet is doing what it can to spread the message of how to combat climate change far more effectively than is happening now. The group is small, and so far has been entirely funded by its founder. Donate now!
4. Donate to CoolEarth or other charities that protect the rainforest.
   Deforestation puts more carbon into the atmosphere each year than, for example, total worldwide car and air travel. Therefore protecting forests is vital. CoolEarth, working with local people, buys up rainforest that it believes is at most risk of being felled. The more they buy, the less carbon is emitted.
5. Put forward a resolution within a political party if you belong to one, calling for your party if or when it is in government to announce an immediate commitment of 1% of GDP for research into technology that can prevent climate change i.e. technology that will remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, and to invite all of us to voluntarily donate 1% of our own income to this research fund. Alternatively, a Tobin-style tax on financial transactions (also known as the 'Robin Hood' tax) of 0.05% could raise around 400 billion US dollars per year, enough to pay for preserving the rainforest, CCS and research into geo-engineering. A resolution could call on the party if or when it is in government to start negotiating with other nations to implement this tax.
6. Sign up to be kept informed by email.

We can let you know of new ways in which you can help the campaign via email. There will be no more than one email per month, probably less.

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