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While many who adopted these behaviors faced minimal difficulty, non-adopters cited lack of awareness and lack of interest for low-cost actions, and high cost and home ownership issues for high-cost technologies.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Low-cost, repeated behaviors are more frequently adopted than high-cost, one-time behaviors. Reducing food waste was the most common action, with 66% of respondents overall having tried to do so in the prior month, while only 7% had owned or leased an electric vehicle.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Reducing food waste is widely adopted, with majorities in 36 of the 37 surveyed countries and territories reporting they tried to do so in the previous month. France (79%), Croatia (78%), and Italy (77%) had the highest rates, while Israel (43%) had the lowest.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Meat consumption reduction is less common, with majorities in only 3 of 37 countries reporting adoption. Italy (59%), Greece (57%), and France (55%) were the most likely to try to eat less meat, while Japan (23%) was the least likely.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Carbon offset adoption is low, with only 16% of respondents having ever bought them. No surveyed country or territory had a majority of respondents who had purchased offsets.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Heat pump adoption stands at 12% overall, with significant geographic variation ranging from 45% in New Zealand to 3% in Israel and the United Kingdom.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Rooftop solar panel adoption is 9% overall, with the highest adoption in the Netherlands (34%) and the lowest in Canada and Chile (2%).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"For high-cost behaviors like heat pumps, solar panels, and electric vehicles, the most common barriers for non-adopters are high cost and lack of home ownership.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"For low-cost behaviors, non-adopters primarily cite a lack of awareness, lack of interest, or having never thought about the action as the main barriers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"commyale-000263#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A significant portion of those who adopted high-cost technologies still reported difficulties, particularly regarding expense. 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It identifies key leverage points for software companies, including the reduction of Scope 3 emissions from players' devices, the use of the industry's massive reach to normalize climate solutions, and the decarbonization of corporate cash and investments. The guide provides specific actionable recommendations and real-world examples from companies like Xbox, Ubisoft, and Unity to demonstrate how these strategies can be implemented in practice.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The gaming industry has a substantial climate impact, with annual game-related energy use in the United States alone causing an estimated 24 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to over 5 million cars.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Gaming companies can leverage their 'climate superpower'—a global reach of over 3 billion players, or 40% of the world's population—to normalize climate action and integrate climate solutions storytelling into games.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To achieve comprehensive emissions reductions, companies should ensure data centers use 100% renewable energy, optimize energy efficiency for development and gameplay, and address Scope 3 emissions, specifically those from players' end-devices.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Financial leverage is a critical but underutilized tool; companies are encouraged to offer climate-friendly retirement plans, push banks to align with the Paris Agreement, and steer insurance away from carbon-intensive projects.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The framework recommends that gaming companies move from opportunistic to consistent climate policy advocacy, influencing industry associations like the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Corporate procurement and partnerships should be aligned with climate goals by favoring suppliers with science-based emissions reductions targets and pushing cloud service providers to decarbonize.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document identifies significant gaps in the industry, particularly regarding the impact of corporate cash held in big banks, which can be a company's largest source of emissions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"drawdown-000043#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["greenhouse gas emissions","Scope 3","renewable energy","energy efficiency","climate finance","fossil-fuel divestment","corporate sustainability","carbon tax"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Europe","Australia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["framework","recommendations","case studies"]},{"id":"foei-000878","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/foei-000878","title":"Sus impactos sobre los pueblos y el planeta","publisher":{"name":"Friends of the Earth International","organization":"friends-of-the-earth-international"},"document_type":"report","language":"es","date_published":"2023","source_url":"https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Banco-de-evidencia-falsas-soluciones-climaticas_ES_nov-2023.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report argues that nature-based solutions (NbS) and carbon offsetting schemes often serve as a facade for corporate polluters to continue emitting while facilitating land grabbing and violating human rights. It provides numerous case studies across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, highlighting systemic issues such as inflated carbon baselines, lack of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC), and the failure of projects to deliver promised climate or social benefits. The document specifically critiques REDD+ projects, industrial tree plantations, and soil carbon programs for their lack of 'additionality' and their role in undermining food sovereignty and indigenous land rights.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Nature-based solutions (NbS) are characterized as a mechanism for large polluters to maintain emissions levels while seizing vast areas of land, often ignoring the rights of Indigenous Peoples and threatening food sovereignty.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Liberia, a proposed agreement with the Emirati company Blue Carbon would grant exclusive rights to over one million hectares of forest for 30 years, potentially violating Liberian land rights laws and the requirement for free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Kariba REDD+ project in Zimbabwe, managed by South Pole, is accused of inflating carbon savings figures; an investigation suggests that nearly two-thirds of the total project's carbon credits (approximately 27 million tonnes of CO2) do not actually exist.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In the Republic of the Congo, a tree-planting project by TotalEnergies and Forest Neutral Congo has been linked to the expulsion of small-scale farmers from their lands and inadequate community consultation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Carbon offset projects in Australia have been found to systematically overestimate benefits, particularly those using 'human-induced regeneration' (HIR) methods, where credits were claimed for vegetation that was never intended to be cleared.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Scotland, the 'green rush' for forest and peatland restoration offsets has led to a 61% increase in land values in 2021, exacerbating rural inequality and concentrating land ownership among a small number of owners.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Cordillera Azul National Park REDD+ project in Peru is accused of using inflated baselines and failing to account for 'leakage,' while the Kichwa community of Puerto Franco has sued over the lack of consent and land titling.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Guyana, the ART-TREES program is criticized for creating carbon credits through accounting manipulations rather than real emission reductions, with over 80% of credits allegedly resulting from such adjustments.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Agricultural carbon programs by companies like Bayer, Cargill, and Corteva in the US are viewed as tools for 'Big Ag' to control farmer data and promote industrial practices, such as the intensive use of glyphosate, over agroecological solutions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Improved cookstove offset projects, such as those by the Indian company Enking, are accused of using flawed methodologies and inflated baselines to generate credits that are up to eight times higher than they should be.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000878#insight-10","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["nature-based solutions","carbon offset","Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation","land grabbing","agroecology","indigenous rights","Free, Prior and Informed Consent","deforestation","carbon emission trading","Net-zero emissions"],"geography_discussed":["Liberia","Zimbabwe","Gabon","Republic of the Congo","Uganda","Mozambique","Indonesia","Australia","New Zealand","Cambodia","Scotland","Spain","Wales","Peru","Guyana","Brazil","Colombia","United States","People's Republic of China","Niger","India"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study","evidence review"]},{"id":"foei-000879","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/foei-000879","title":"Bank of evidence on false climate solutions","publisher":{"name":"Friends of the Earth International","organization":"friends-of-the-earth-international"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2023","source_url":"https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bank-of-evidence-climate-false-solutions_EN_Nov-2023.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that nature-based solutions (NBS) and carbon offsets often serve as a distraction for 'Big Polluters' to continue emitting while facilitating land grabs and violating Indigenous rights. It provides detailed evidence of inflated carbon baselines, lack of additionality, and social harms across Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Key examples include REDD+ projects in Zimbabwe and Gabon that overestimated carbon savings, and soil carbon initiatives in the US and Kenya that threaten food sovereignty and traditional livelihoods. 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It highlights risks such as the erosion of traditional agricultural knowledge, the promotion of patented seeds and chemicals, and the unreliability of soil carbon measurement. The text specifically identifies companies like Yara and Boomitra as drivers of these markets, expanding from industrial farms in the US, Australia, and Brazil into small-scale farming in Africa, India, and South America.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Soil carbon markets are described as offset mechanisms where farmers are paid to capture carbon to compensate for the ongoing emissions of corporations or governments, often aligned with 'net zero' goals.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document claims these programs perpetuate industrial agriculture by requiring specific 'climate-smart' practices that rely on patented seeds and agrochemicals, and by locking farmers into long-term contracts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Digital monitoring tools used for carbon credits are viewed as a means of 'data grabbing' that shifts agricultural knowledge from farmers to corporate algorithms.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author argues that soil carbon offsets are not a viable climate solution because soil carbon is temporary and cannot offset the long-term impact of burning fossil fuels.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Measurement of soil carbon is characterized as unreliable, with significant variability between points on the same plot and a high risk of carbon being released quickly due to erosion or land-use changes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document highlights the role of Yara, a major synthetic nitrogen fertilizer producer, in promoting these markets through its Agoro Carbon Alliance and investments in Boomitra to expand into East Africa, India, Mexico, and South America.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-001006#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["carbon offset","nature-based solutions","agroecology","Net-zero emissions","Climate-smart agriculture","climate justice"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Australia","Brazil","South Africa","India","Kenya","People's Republic of China","Mexico","Philippines"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy critique","fact sheet"]},{"id":"glowit-000158","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000158","title":"Siempre en pie","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"report","language":"es","date_published":"2023","source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/es/campaigns/land-and-environmental-defenders/standing-firm-es/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"In 2022, Global Witness documented at least 177 killings of land and environmental defenders, with 88% occurring in Latin America. Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico accounted for over 70% of these deaths. The report highlights a critical situation in the Amazon, where 22% of global killings occurred, often linked to illegal mining and agroindustry. It also details the 'criminalization' of activists as a non-lethal strategy to silence dissent. The document advocates for the EU's proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive to hold companies accountable for human rights and environmental abuses in their global supply chains.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000158#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"At least 177 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2022, contributing to a total of 1,910 homicides documented since 2012. 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