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26 Oct. 2020 - V1.0.8. This is JEDI's proposed blue-print to fast-track climate change action beyond the missed targets of governments across the globe. It requires action by those with the means to get it done. To comment, please use Contact.

Actors - Technology - Countries - Targets - Organization - Finance - Risks - CTA

Man-made planetary climate change and the loss of crucial biodiversity are facts. Politicians and large corporations provide insufficient results to counteract climate change. Society is locked in dysfunctional conventions. Set targets are not being met. Atmospheric CO2 concentration keeps rising, with newest record above 400 ppm.

To successfully fight climate change and restore society’s natural habitat, we unconditionally require a global systematic approach.

At the moment, growing numbers of valuable initiatives and movements are active world-wide. Their effective scopes vary from global reach with specific focus, to local reach with broad focus. Yet we are missing a holistic approach to the problem, covering all required focus points, applied to all countries across the globe, continuously. This requires filling in quite some gaps, and equally important, create a higher degree of systematic coordination and organization.

The Global Program (GP) represents the crucial next step and establishes a coalition of technical know-how, initiatives and movements working in concert as a structurally coordinated global system to fast-track the fight against climate change and regenerate biodiversity.

Steel Production by Hydrogen: Germany's second largest steel mill, Salzgitter AG, is in process of converting its steel production from coal to green hydrogen power; the conversion reduces Germany's CO2 emissions by 1%. The green hydrogen-produced steel adds a doable 1-2% to the purchase price of a new vehicle. Source (German): Dieses Stahlwerk soll die Klimabilanz verbessern - 2020-10-19 KfW).

The GP Energy group and the GP Germany team work with the steel mill on replicating the technology. In China and India the local GP teams advocate and push immediate conversions on local level, technically supported by GP Energy and GP mobilized finance institutions. China and India advance their implementation schedules for green steel.  - Quite frankly, start this very minute!

Here's how to put it together.

The Global Program combines the three key required factors, that is actors, technology, and country action into a systematically networked organizational structure with the ability to effectively act on a global scale.

  • The GP actors are the many individuals, professionals and organizations globally with the know-how, the positions to act and apply the available solutions.
  • The GP utilizes technological means that are largely available.
  • The GP focuses on country based action to apply the needed technical solutions, intensify advocacy and awareness, and innovate key systemic conventions.
  • The GP networks actors, technology and action into a coordinated system that boosts global implementation.

The GP contains all the ingredients to win the climate change war. Its key actors are invited to pick it up, and carry it forward.

Actors - Organizations and Individuals

These are the key actors to establish, carry out and support the GP.

1. Key stakeholders such as public and private movements and organizations involved in climate change action and biodiversity preservation, and the highly motivated individuals engaged in these movements and organizations.

2. The vast technical knowledge and implementation bases in universities, institutes, private companies, marketing and consulting companies that do their part of needed actions, with or without additional funding.

4. Small, medium and large companies and corporations in carrying out their social and environmental responsibility convictions and practices.

3. Politicians, governmental agencies and religious organizations who are in a position to directly push needed actions on political and socicolutural levels.

5. Affluent and influential individuals who are looking to take their role in restoring society’s planetary habitat, as celebrity activists, managers and funders.

6. The general population, with the multitude of individuals, employees and family businesses who are motivated and ready to support and implement needed action.

There are many motivated and ready-to-go actors in these groups who feel underutilized for concerted action on climate change and biodiversity.

The GP activities apply to the following nine key technical action clusters in every corner across the globe.

Technical Action Clusters

The GP coordinates and supports the development, testing and piloting of technical solutions, and fast-tracks the broad introduction of workable solutions, globally. We do so in nine technical action clusters.

1 Fast-track Renewable Energy

We put a halt to fossil fuel usage. We put all available efforts into expanding renewable energy sources for industry, households and transportation. Aircraft producers are fast-tracked to build clean energy fueled aircraft. Clean hydrogen is mass-produced using renewable energy sources. Structural unit: GPT-Energy

2 Restore Forests and Biodiversity

We stop destruction of rainforest and all forested areas. We expand the restoration of forested areas. We create new, diversely forested areas. We effectively prevent forest encroachment and forest fires. We create biodiversity sanctuaries. Structural unit: GPT-Forests

3 Restore Ocean Health and Biodiversity

We stop dumping trash into oceans. We clean up plastic and other pollution. We stop overfishing oceans. We create large global oceanic reserve parks and biodiversity sanctuaries. Structural unit: GPT-Oceans

4 Restructure Food Consumption

We fast-track the reduction and replacement of foods responsible for high negative climate and biodiversity impact. We fast-track the reduction of meat and palm oil consumption. We reduce large-scale cattle livestock, reduce/move plantations and reclaim rainforest. We reduce other significant methane emitters in the food production chain. We fast-track the introduction of viable alternatives. Structural unit: GPT-Food Consumption

5 Improve Agriculture and Farming

We encourage the use of biologically responsible, modern, low-tech and high-tech techniques to produce more and healthier food per available space. Structural unit: GPT-Agriculture

6 Realign Financial Resources

We fast-track the realignment of subsidies, budgets, loans, shareholdings, investments, quantitative easing and other financial tools and means away from activities that contribute to climate change and the loss of biodiversity to those government, business and financial activities that are neutral or make a positive contribution. Structural unit: GPT-Divest

7 Reduce and Recycle

We fast-track and expand conventional reduction and recycling practices. We improve the efficiency and reduce the need for travel, improve product repair/replace ratios, reduce the fashion renewal cycle, reduce food wastage, reduce single-use plastic, reduce material consumption, reduce heat and cold leakage of closed buildings, fast-track the replacement of greenhouse cases used for coolant and electronics, improve and/or limit production processes requiring large amounts of greenhouse gases such as cement and foam production, stop the poaching of endangered animals and trees. Structural unit: GPT-R2

8 Clean Up Greenhouse Gases

We fast-track research and implementation methods for cleaning up greenhouse gases that are now in the atmosphere, such as Direct Air Capture, Carbon Mineralization, and ocean based methods; as well as methods of preventing emissions of natural greenhouse gases from unfrozen earth near the shrinking polar ice covers. Structural unit: GPT-Greenhouse Cleanup

9 Stabilize Population Growth

Controversial or not, humankind is in the process of outgrowing the resources of the planet. We coordinate to ethically stabilize population growth with priority for areas with very high population density coupled with very high population growth. We support ethical stabilization of population growth wherever it is desired. Structural unit: GPT-Population

Technical Sources and Application

The nine structural units for GP Technical Action (GPTs) identify and arrange coordinated climate action in their respective clusters. The know-how sources related to these nine technical action clusters are located in the multitude of R&D institutes, universities, government technical agencies and private companies world-wide.

The implementation of technical solutions, know-how and action identified by the GPT's is largely carried out on country level.

Norm: For all technical action clusters we go for speed of implementation and full impact everywhere, based on what has been shown to work.

Country Action

GP country action consists of fast-track application of technical solutions, accompanied by advocacy and awareness building, and the renewal of systemic practices and conventions. Structural unit example: GPC-US

1 Immediate Technical Action

The GP fast-tracks the application of  know-how and solutions of the nine key technical action clusters. This represents a strong degree of networking and hands-on collaboration between technical organizations world-wide and technical application per country.

The GP supports, networks and coordinates all key actors to fast-track technical action.

The GP pressures unwilling, profit-motivated key players with increasing force until they act or cease negative climate and biodiversity activities, if awareness creation fails.

The GP supports countries that are scheduled for slower/later technical implementation due to their development level, for immediate fast-track action.

Norm: All technical actions are taken with the explicit approval and support of local stakeholders at the very ground level – the people directly involved and affected. Where such approval does not yet exist, extensive measures are taken to raise awareness and create incentives that ensure local social well-being in the short and long-term.

2 Create Awareness Everywhere

Awareness of the need to act is being raised in many countries, while skeptics still cause discord within civil society. Here, awareness is further increased, coupled with the awareness that effective action is possible, underway, and needs popular support.

In other regions, especially in less developed areas, awareness hardly exists, often on all levels. Here, awareness creation is fast-tracked at high speed, coupled with the awareness, visibility and participation in effective action being taken.

Creation of awareness is achieved by modern commercial marketing techniques, television, radio and internet channels, advocacy, consultancy, hands-on training, education and community development activities.

3 Innovate Key Systemic Conventions

The GP fast-tracks country level changes in policies, laws, and structures to the requirements of technical, economic and social actions on climate change.

The GP fast-tracks the social readjustment of systemic "business as usual" to the "decisive urgent action" mind-set required by successful climate change and biodiversity action.

We fast-track the concept of social and environmental responsibility in small businesses and large large corporations, with aim to focus on sustainability and well-being for people, business and planet.

We strengthen the concept of long-term, socially and environmentally responsible business sustainability over short-term profit generation and profit disbursement.

We fast-track the integration of comprehensive environmental and sustainability factors into product and business costing, such as gas and particle emissions, pollution, product end-of-life waste disposal, soil and water degradation.

We fast-track societal understanding that material accumulation, largely generated by modern mass-media marketing, is not the way to happiness - or a sustainable planet.

We fast-track rewarding effective action on climate change, biodiversity and sustainability, and effective penalties of opposite action for monetary profit motives.

Norm: Our focus is always effective climate change action and biodiversity action.
Norm: As a matter of principle, we work with and expand currently existing actions and programs. Where measures exist insufficiently, we create and drive new effective action.
Norm: Climate change and biodiversity action may incidentally require supplemental poverty alleviation and related measures; such measures are accompanied by other external support and are devised for medium/long-term durability, that is internal sustainability or long-term backing).
Norm: We do not engage in high-profile self-promotion on implementation level, and discourage collaborating supporters from the practice.

Targets

The goal is clear – save society’s habitat as we know it – our natural planet.

Established systems are unable to reach agreed climate change targets. To ensure achieving the goal, the GP push-supports established systems and/or surpasses those systems to achieve and exceed the agreed targets.

The GP target is to bring forward all planned climate change deadlines by 15 years and limit global warming to 1%.

Organization

The GP is conceived as transnational non-governmental organization (TNGO) with the global task to pro-actively fight climate change and regenerate biodiversity. It fast-tracks, networks and coordinates action, and wherever needed directly carries out climate action across the globe.

Many of the actors and organizations are in place, the technologies exist, the needed activities are known. The GP provides a level of global thrust, pressure and networked global coordination that is not yet in place.

Norm: The GP methodology focuses on networking, coordinating and collaboration on equal level. It avoids hierarchy, or the perception thereof, as generally dysfunctional within the culture of GP's organizational and individual actors.
Norm: The GP acts on all levels from policy to ground; collaboration, preceded by advocacy and awareness building or not, is required on all levels.
Norm: The GP does not allow party-political, influential, financial or ideological agendas outside of the climate action and biodiversity scope.
Norm: The GP does not dissolve focus to climate change alleviation or adaptation measures, except if such measures counteract climate change.
Norm: The GP does engage in small scale piloting. The GP engages in broad replication of proven, successful piloting.
Norm: The GP does not engage in certifications, condonation, or  tolerance of activities or entities that negatively impact climate change and biodiversity.
Norm: The GP activities combine voluntarism, activism, public service, professional engagement, employment, and paid services. The organization installs safeguards to avert conflicts among these.

Structure

We follow the decentralized matrix organization model: the nine technical action clusters are networked and coordinated with country operations on ground level across the globe.

To illustrate the matrix organization, hold out your hands facing each other, left hand is technologies, right hand is countries. Spread your fingers. Imagine a web of strings from each finger on the left hand to each finger on the right hand.  There's your matrix!   It's a known, well-tested organizational structure. Decentralized means that all of this is happening where the action is.

In our example above, the action is where the strings cross each other: where technology is applied on the ground in a specific country.

Technical Structures and Staff

The Global Program has nine Technical Action Clusters. On organizational level the clusters comprise all existing public and private initiatives, movements and organisations with technical research, know-how, and implementation power in their technical field.

The Global Program's structural unit is the GP Technical Action Group (GPT), such as GPT-Energy. The unit networks and coordinates with organizations within the technical cluster to connect and collaborate with country based initiatives and movements. The unit facilitates communication, coordination and collaboration between technical and country action.

A GPT may be operated by one or more organizations within its cluster.

A GPT is staffed by professionals with technical and managerial expertise in their respective technical field.

A GPT and the respective cluster, together with Country Action teams, can determine specific countries as focus points, wwithout diminishing global operations.

The cluster itself provides its professionals and specialists. It moobilizes professionals and specialists to support global Country Action.

Country Structures and Staff

The Global Program is active in all countries. On organizational level the country action is carried out by all existing public and private initiatives, movements and organisations with socio-cultural, political and economic understanding, connections, and implementation power in their country.

The Global Program's structural unit is the GP Country Action Team (GPC), such as GPC-Brazil. The unit networks and coordinates with initiatives, movements, and organizations within the country to a) enhance awareness, carry out advocacy, and innovate systemic conventions, and b) connect with the Technical Action Groups in mobilizing the technical clusters to support fast-track of local technical solutions.

A GPC may be operated and staffed by one or more existing local organizations, authorized/delegated by the GP. It can also be a team established directly by the GP.

A GPC is staffed by professionals with networking and coordination skills, socio-cultural, political and economic understanding, connections and influence in the country.

A GPC, together with GPTs, can determine specific technical focus points, without diminishing other goals.

Local country initiatives, movements, public and private organizations provide the activists, volunteers, and professionals for Country Action. They are supported by GP sourced volunteers and professionals from Technical Action Clusters and Country Action in other areas.

Information & Communication Structure

The GP is supported by the GP Information & Communication (GPI) section. The GPI collects and provides data on and for the GPTs, GPCs and the GP Empowerment fund in terms of available inputs, communication/coordination, outputs and performance monitoring. The information and data infrastructure may be created and supported by one or more tech giant specialists as a social entrepreneurship public service.

Finance Structure

The GP's finances are managed by the Global Program Empowerment Fund (GPE). It sources donations and grants, form private and public sources, and manages these funds.

Donations may contain earmarks for action cluster and/or country, and are principally channeled on to their earmarks, managed by the GPTs and GPCs.

The GPE coordinates with GPT-Divest for sourcing of investment or loan funds for climate action measures.

Coordination Structure

GP Headquarters (GPH) provides guidance, networking and coordination between technical action cluster and country implementation, and manages information, communication and finance provision. When appropriate, the GPH also carries out technical action and other activities directly on international level.

The GP is supervised by a board, the GPB, comprising 9 individuals. The board provides GP direction, supervision, norms, values and clarification of issues.

Norm: Wherever possible, the implementation of activities on the ground at country level are carried out by existing local organizations.
Norm: When effectively and efficiently possible, GP structures may be filled by existing organizations. Organizations /partners that fail to efficiently perform are sidelined. When the needed organizations are not available, we create them.
Norm: The GP acts decisively in transparent, coordinated manner, with lowest possible bureaucratic burden.

Finance

We distinguish three types of costs, with different implications for financial inflows.

Internal costs are the costs incurred by the GP's structural units in carrying out networking,  coordination and collaboration activities.

The GP's internal financing is by in-kind contributions from directly involved partner organizations, such as the movements and organizations directly participating within the GP structure. Other funds are provided by donations from individuals, corporations, the general public and government grants.

Mixed costs are the costs incurred by the GP's structural units in direct spending on climate action activities. These types of costs are more likely occur in country level operations, where quick flexible action is certain to be required at times. Nevertheless the brunt of such costs is carried by local action movements and organizations.

Mixed costs are carried by the same types of funding as internal costs, principally limited to sources on country level. Where local funding is insufficient, the GP may assign global donations.

External costs are the costs incurred by direct climate action by movements, organizations and corporations on cluster and country level.

External costs are generally carried by these actors with their own internal or external funding sources. Whenever needed, the GP assists specific, high cost priority climate action projects by sourcing from external divestment, investment and loan funding or government grants.

All GP structural elements and  activities are audited annually according respective country standards by joint action of the big four accounting networks, as a social entrepreneurship public service.

Norm: Acquisition costs of funding and administrative costs are kept at the low end of reasonable levels.
Norm: To ensure independent, effective management, the funding of technical action clusters and country implementation, the GPTs, GPCs, GPI and the GPE is by independent/donated funds. Funding may not be tied to reciprocal arrangements with donors.

Risks

Organizational growth is ideally organic, step-by-step. Urgency dictates that this cannot be the case here. The risk of failure is mitigated by working directly with and through existing movements and organizations in all fields working for climate change action.

The GP's specific goal and given norms and values must not be compromised by the movements and organizations it works with. The risk of such compromise can be mitigated by clear communication and adherence to the GP's original concept.

Global organizations are at risk of being perceived as influencing, or even dominating individual, country and corporate interests. The GP may and should correctly be perceived to globally influence and act, yet specifically limited to climate change and biodiversity action. The GP avoids internally and externally hierarchies, aiming for equality based coordination collaboration. Broad, honest awareness building can support the desired and needed positive perceptions.

Next Steps - Call to Action

This concept is a realistic, ready-for-work model for the establishment of the Global Climate Action Program to fast-track action on climate change and biodiversity. Fine-tuning and detailing can follow anytime.

1. This is a call on concerned individuals, movements and organizations with the needed motivation and means to successfully establish and carry out the systematic Global Climate Action Program.

Not everyone, including the author of this concept, is in a position to establish global programs. But you can push to get it off the ground.

The immediate goal is for this concept to reach the right individuals who are in the right position to set it up and carry it out.

2. Pay it forward. Send this concept to your friends. Include a person in influential position, or a person active in climate change work. Make this concept climb up the scale where it is visible for the right individuals who are in the right position to establish and carry out the Global Program.

 3. Act and get involved on any of the needed technical and country activities as a personal pursuit. As an individual, small business or organization. Follow-up and coordinate with others who are doing so, too. Every individual action counts.

 

Jan Willem Roeloffs
JEDI International, Ltd.  (contact)
Joint Economic Development Initiative
Do it. Warp 9. Engage.

JWR, an MBM graduate from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, worked 15 years in bilateral development assistance. In 2003 he established a small business in Thailand, now a family business, for export and production of socially and environmentally responsible local handicrafts. He works and lives on a small farm on the outskirts of Chiang May city.

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APPENDIX

Disclaimer: The Global Program (GP) is not related to a similarly named WHO "Global Programme on Climate Change & Health" ("Protecting health from climate change"), or other similarly named initiatives addressing climate change effects, or other issues.

GP Example 1 - Forest Reseeding

The World Wide Fund tests a few drones to reseed Australian fire-hit forests. News reports state "Drones plant gum trees in WWF bid to boost koala numbers in Australia". WWF Australia seeks $210 million over five years to fund the the seeding initiative (with or without drones) to revive forest habitat and double double koala numbers on the east coast.

The GP identifies and, if needed, fast-tracks research and experience for tree/forest seeding and seedling survival,  secures funds and replicates the effort worldwide where relevant. Warp 9.

GP Example 2 - Freon Out Everywhere

The US and Europe forced the replacement of vehicle air-conditioner refrigerant gas Freon R-134a, which has global warming effect 1,410 times worse than CO2. As a result, US and European car manufacturers now fit new cars with air-conditioners using refrigerants with effect of 1 (one) CO2. But countries on slow/late adoption schedule follow only according to manufacturer preference, with many new vehicles remaining on Freon R-134a.

The GP fast-tracks the immediate adoption of modern CO2 neutral air-conditioners for all new vehicles worldwide. The GP also fast-tracks conversion options for all vehicles from dirty to clean air-conditioners. Warp 9.

Example 3 - Greening Sahel

"The Great Green Wall" and "Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration" (FMNR) aim to green a vast area in the African Sahel.

The GP fast-tracks failure/success analysis and replicates successful implementation across the continent, where viable. The GP coordinates with the continental union, governments, organizations and smallholders already involved, and those to be involved, supports pressure for appropriate policies and laws, and coordinates/implements effective across-the-board, bottom-up replication. Warp 9.

Example 4 - Steel Production by Hydrogen

In Germany, its largest steel mill Salzgitter AG is in process of converting its production facility to green hydrogen power; with the effect of reducing the entire country's CO2 emissions by 1%. The cost of steel will be higher, an estimated 1% increase in the purchase cost of new automobiles.

The GP fast-tracks the replication of steel mill conversion to green hydrogen world-wide. Warp 9.

There are literally thousands of examples for successful fast-track action world-wide. Once established, the GP can and will act.