While the devastating impacts of global warming are getting more and more prominent across global societies, 197 nations forged the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and created a global consensus to limit Earth’s temperature rise to “well below 2°C”, and “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”. However, in 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that a 1.5°C world will be substantially better for societies than 2°C, which demands peaking global emission by 2020 and halving by 2030. The Exponential Climate Action Roadmap laid out 36 solutions and how they can be exponentially scaled to halve global emission in the next decade. These solutions are not only fundamental to safeguard world development but also feasible, affordable and implementing them brings many other substantial benefits for the economy, ecosystems and human wellbeing. These solutions and their implementation strategies have been released during the Global Climate Week in the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September 2019.

In this talk, I briefly outlined the climate challenge the humanity is facing and the 36 solutions with their exponential implementation strategies to halve global emission by 2030. I also shared my experience of being at the Global Climate Week and UN Climate Action Summit as an Environmental Scientist, Solution Modeller and Climate Striker!