The Climate Overshoot Commission is holding the necessary conversations about whether and how additional approaches could reduce the risks of a warming climate, and recommend an integrated governance strategy. Additional approaches include:
//greatly expanded and accelerated adaptation measures to reduce climate vulnerability
//removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
//possibly cooling the planet by reflecting incoming sunlight.

The Commission is the first high-level group to address all these options in a holistic, integrated manner, free from conventional political constraints. Members include former heads of government, national ministers, directors of intergovernmental organizations, leaders of environmental groups, and academic experts.

Members of the Climate Overshoot Commission were chosen based on three criteria:

1 / Eminent
Commissioners’ authority and expertise underlines the urgency of this conversation.

2 / Global
Multiple perspectives are essential to create a strategy that works for people across the planet. Commissioners come from diverse backgrounds, with a majority from the Global South. 

3 / Independent
The Commissioners deliberate as individual experts, not representing institutions or corporations.

Climate Overshoot Commission

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