SSIR’s 2021 Guide to Climate Change Solutions

By SSIR Editors

A collection of SSIR articles highlighting how social change leaders are responding to the ongoing climate crisis while the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Complicity of Corporate Sustainability

By Auden Schendler 21

Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.

Africa’s Climate Activist

By Senta Scarborough

At the forefront of the effort to raise awareness about Africa’s climate plight is Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old Ugandan social media activist.

Precision Fishing

By Gordon Feller

SmartCatch deploys digital technology to help make the world’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable.

Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights as a Minimum Standard for Corporate Practice

By Carla F. Fredericks & Kate R. Finn 1

By building strategic alliances with investors and shareholders, Indigenous Peoples are proactively protecting their rights by urging corporate respect of those rights in routine operations.

Indigenous Feminism Is Our Culture

By Jihan Gearon 4

A call to bring back matriarchy in Indigenous communities to rebuild and decolonize the foundation of Native community life.

Bridging the Divide Between Impact Investing and Native America

By Nikki Pieratos & Chrystel Cornelius

Indigenous intermediaries are crucial to overcoming asymmetries between impact investors and Native America through the building of relationships of trust, creation of an ecosystem for impact investing in Indigenous communities, and performance of the due diligence investors need to manage risk.

Building Indigenous Power and Investing in Indigenous Self-Determination

By Nick Tilsen 6

To solve the most pressing issues for Indigenous communities—and for the world at large—power and autonomy must be given to Indigenous people themselves.

Using Design Thinking to Tackle Climate Change When ‘What You Know No Longer Works’

By Sarah Stein Greenberg & Madhuri Karak

As climate change creates new ambiguity problems for farmers, communities need to better understand and assess their own environments.

Saving the Honeybees

By Luke O’Neill

In an effort to save the bees and buttress the global food supply, Edete, an Israel-based agricultural technology company, has set out to reduce the strain on bees by assisting them with crop pollination.