Climate Change: What Can Be Done?
Opportunities for Large-Scale Climate Action

ClimateSAN hosted a related online event on May 20, 2025.  To view a recording of it, visit: Opportunities for Large-Scale Climate Action.

In October 2024, the UN announced that the greenhouse gases rising to record levels and that countries “must start curbing emissions immediately“.  Given below is a set of videos that highlight some impacts of climate change, current trends and opportunities for large-scale action along with links to more detailed information:

0) Playlist of 4 videos shown below: Playlist of Videos About Climate Change Impacts and Opportunity for Large-Scale Action.

1) Short (2.5 min.) Video: Sea level rise leading to forced migration and the need for climate action:

Links related to the information mentioned in the above video:

a) Sea Level Rise Viewers: Coast.NOAA.gov/slr and SeaLevelRise.org

b) See Section 8 below for news articles and reports relating to the above video.

2) Short (2:45 min.) Video: Climate Change Trends and Need for Climate Action on a Sufficient Scale:

PDF Version of the Slideshow to View Links in Video: Climate Change Trends and Need for Climate Action on a Sufficient Scale.

3) Short (10 min.) Video: Climate Solutions That Can Be Implemented on a Large Scale:

PDF Version of Slideshow to View Links in Video: Climate Solutions That Can Be Implemented on a Large Scale 2024

4) Video (16.5 min) shown below is also included in this webpage, which contains links to more detailed information: Accelerating the Energy Transition with Geologic Hydrogen & Complementary Technologies:

PDF Version of Slideshow to access links in the video: Accelerating the Energy Transition with Geologic Hydrogen & Complementary Technologies.

Webpage with links related to information presented in this video: Accelerating the Energy Transition with Geologic Hydrogen & Complementary Technologies: Leveraging AI, Drilling Technologies, Extraction, Renewable Energy, Energy Storage to Produce Reliable Electricity and Renewable Fuels

5) Online Event on May 20, 2025: Opportunities for Large-Scale Climate Action (climatesan.org/olsca )

6) Webpage including short video: Scaling Up Climate Action Through Collaboration, Proven Technologies and Government Incentives (climatesan.org/scac )

7) Webpage by ClimateSAN about current warming trend: Current Warming Trend (climatesan.org/cwt )

8) Webpages by ClimateSAN about the impacts of climate change on human security:

a) Rising Global Sea Levels and Its Impacts on Human Security.

b) Thwaites “Doomsday” Glacier and Related Information (climatasan.org/doomsday )

c) How Climate Change is a Security Threat Multiplier and What Can Be Done?

d) Videos and Images that Visualize Climate Change Impacts

e) Publications, Video Channels and Selected Webpages Relating to Climate and/or Security

9) Webpages by ClimateSAN about climate solutions prepared by ClimateSAN that contain embedded presentation videos and/or links to more information:

a) Combining Technologies to Produce Reliable Carbon-Negative Energy (climatesan.org/ctne )’

b) Combining Complementary Technologies to Maximize Climate Impact in a Sustainable and Profitable Way (climatesan.org/tmci )

c) Generating Reliable Power & Low-Carbon Fuel from Biomass While Creating Negative Carbon Emissions.

d) Selected Climate Solutions that Mitigate Climate Change and Provide Co-benefits

e) Agrivoltaics: Combining Solar Panels with Farming (climatesan.org/agv )

f) Coastal Carbon Capture with Olivine Sand (climatesan.org/olivine)

g) How Farmers Can Make Money by Storing Carbon in Soil and Reducing Fertilizer Costs (climatesan.org/hfmm )

h) Articles & Webpages About Companies with Turquoise Hydrogen Technologies

10) Selected articles relating to the videos shown above:

a) Reuters: Greenland glaciers melt five times faster than 20 years ago by Johannes Birkebaek. November 10, 2023

b) NASA: Global Climate Change, Vital Signs of the Planet – Sea Level

c) CNN: ‘Doomsday glacier,’ which could raise sea level by several feet, is holding on ‘by its fingernails,’ scientists say, by Angela Fritz, Sept. 6, 2022

d) SeaLevelRise.org: The Future of Sea Level Rise – “While it took 60 years for the sea level to rise about 6 inches nationally, scientists now forecast that in just the next 20 years, the sea will have risen by another 6 inches.”

e) IEP Press Release: Over one billion people at threat of being displaced by 2050 due to environmental change, conflict and civil unrest, September 9, 2020 – If natural disasters occur at the same rate seen in the last few decades, 1.2 billion people could be displaced globally by 2050.

f) Institute for Sustainable Finance (ISF): Climate change damage could cost Canada up to $5.5-trillion by the end of the century: New ISF report, April 20, 2022

g) Queens U: Canada faces huge physical costs from climate change, making net zero a great investment, May 18, 2022

h) NewAtlas: Brilliant Planet plans cheap, gigaton-scale carbon capture using algae by Loz Blain,  April 26, 2022

11) Selected investment funds led by billionaires with a focus on climate solutions:
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12) Selected private investment groups with a focus on climate solutions:
b) Arctern Ventures Portfolio (Toronto, ON)
c) The Rise Fund Portfolio (San Francisco, CA)
d) Cycle Capital Portfolio (Montreal, PQ)
e) Eco Fuel Portfolio (Montreal, PQ)
f) Climate Action 100+ comprises 700 global investors across 33 markets.
g) CREO Syndicate is a community of asset owners dedicated to solving the climate crisis.
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13) Progress in Nuclear Fusion Technology, which does not produce radioactive waste:
a) Helion, which expects to have a power plant operating by 2028 – Video: Helion’s approach to fusion: How it works,  Feb 17, 2022
An explanation of Helion’s pulsed, non-ignition approach to fusion power generation. Leveraging Faraday’s Law of Induction, Helion directly recovers electricity from fusion plasmas without the need for steam turbines. 
By forming, accelerating, and merging two Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmas in its sixth fusion device, Trenta, Helion successfully reached plasma temperatures exceeding 9 keV (104 million degrees Celsius). Now, Helion’s focus is on Polaris, its seventh fusion device, which will be the first fusion device to demonstrate net electricity from fusion.
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14) Recent news about development of Geologic Hydrogen opportunities in Canada:
Quebec Innovative Materials makes significant natural hydrogen find near the Ontario-Quebec border
c) MaxPower: MAX Power Nearly Triples Size of Rider Natural Hydrogen Project, Stakes 2,112 Additional Sq. Km, August 6, 2024Historical Hydrogen Grades Up To 87.1%
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15) Innovative Climate Solutions discussed by selected YouTube Channels focused in this area:
a) Just Have a Think by Dave Borlace
b) Electric Viking by Sam Evans
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16) Selected media platforms for Climate Action:
b) Countdown.TED.com – Championing and accelerating solutions to the climate crisis
c) En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator by Climate Interactive, which is an online simulator that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to test and explore cross-sector climate solutions.
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Note1: Short link to this webpage: ClimateSAN.org/lsca