Issues your public sector organization may face include

• local catastrophic weather events
• high recycling and/or waste management fees
• low user participation in recycling programs
• increasing demand by residents for climate action
• lack of available landfill sites
• the reliance on waste incineration plants
• the gaps in data collection
• flytipping

It starts with water. Atmospheric rivers damage local communities. The water vapor they carry span thousands of kilometers and can be 150 km wide. When an atmospheric river hits land, flooding and infrastructure damage result, costing billions of dollars to taxpayers.

In the Arctic and Antarctic, atmospheric rivers have an even more devastating effect. These rivers melt the ice shelves. When the ices shelves collapse, glaciers collapse into the water (This process is known as calving). Sea levels then rise.

Rising sea levels threaten vibrant coastal communities. Insurance companies understand these risks. They have begun withdrawing coverage for coastal communities.

Many buildings and homes are now stranded assets. Local governments rely on municipal bond markets to fund infrastructure projects. Stranded assets make it harder for government municipal bonds to raise money. Investors fear their investment will become stranded.

On the stock markets, retail investors also fear stranded assets. They sell stocks that carry this risk. A lower share price eats away at the public's retirement funds.

As their homes become uninhabitable, millions of people will migrate inward from coastal cities. Local and federal governments will have to help them since insurance companies will not. Communities further inland will have to absorb their new neighbors. All of this change will happen at enormous cost to the taxpayer.

These migrations will happen. The question is when and to what extent. The less warming, the less the inevitable rise in sea level. Our focus is and should be to reduce warming.

Fossil fuels are used to transport goods.
Fossil fuels are also used to manufacture products.

Global warming results from fossil fuels. But what drives our fossil fuel use? Transportation of non critical items. Many items could be manufactured and sold locally. Even worse, we buy too many items made from plastics. Plastics are made from fossil fuels.

The answer is not to close fossil fuel companies. Another company in a "fossil-fuel-friendly" country would take its place. We should focus first on our demand for fossil fuels, not the fuel itself.

Everyone needs to remove fossil fuel driven products from their way of life.

Consumers need to change their buying habits. Consumer demand drives business decisions. Consumer buying habits give businesses the power to rely on fossil fuels. But consumers have no easy way to understand their carbon footprint.

Businesses should stop selling items derived from fossil fuels. Second, they should revamp their supply chains to buy locally.

99% of all businesses are small or medium sized. These owners fear bankruptcy. Customers may boycott their store due to the lack of goods.  Local government revenues would dry up.

If consumers are not responsible, and we need SMBs to fund the migration of people, what is the solution? People often say the solutions to climate change exist. They confuse solutions with outcomes. The solutions have yet to be explored in a serious way, at scale.

Organizations bear the bulk of the burden for the shift away from fossil fuels, not consumers.
Government must lead the way.
We must clean up our supply chains and revamp our business models.

Government can and should play a key role in these discussions. But governments can not lead small and mid sized business owners until they do this work themselves.

Governments need to focus on their Scope 3 emissions reporting. Scope 3 covers supply chain emissions. It asks you to assess your upstream and downstream supply chain. These emissions represent the vast majority of your greenhouse gas emissions. There is a growing movement to encourage full reporting of Scope 3 emissions, across each of the 15 categories. Join the movement.

MobiCycle can help you understand and assess Scope 3 emissions for your electronic and electrical equipment.