🤣This is funny & yes, we should treat the planet like it’s sick.

A better diagnosis
Is excess 🔥🌎57Gt CO2e

MN’s portion is 📏120 MMt CO2e
New target is 🎯100
Per
#climateActionFramework

Do what? Stop burning fuel
How? #Electrify

36 =🔥⛽️🚗
31 =🔥⛽️🚜 & 🪓🌳for 🥩
26 =🔥🔌
21 =🔥🏭
7 = 🔥🥵🥶🏠
7 = 🔥🥵🥶🏢
1 = 🚮

MN #ClimateActionFramework

New! 2026 update

📏120 MMT CO2e
🎯100 MMT CO2e
by 2030

30% 🚗 ⛽️Transport
26% 🚜Ag

22% 🔥🔌Electric
18% 🔥🏭industry

6% 🏠🥵🥶Residential
6% 🛒🏢Commercial

climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...

How do we cut greenhouse gases faster?

E-Bike
#Solar #Wind 🔋🎛️🕰️
Passive House bldg code

What does Minnesota do next
to solve climate faster?

Cut 🤮120M CO2e
to
🎯🤮100M

*New* 2026 update
#ClimateActionFramework

30%⛽️🚚🛻

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

“2026 framework builds on state’s 2022 climate plan…

40 climate laws/ programs 
$1 billion+ funds that
MN Legislature passed 2023

Yes, 😩☔️bad extremes for CA…are also in Minnesota

✅ fix-it plan
1 📏
2 🎯
3 cut CO2e #Electrify
4 🔁
👇
climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

Extreme MN #Heat 🥵🏜️
45F 🚫❄️Feb 13
49F 🚫❄️Feb 14 🚫🏂
Trend: we lose “Winter”

#ClimateActionFramework

Sankey chart shows
wasted 🔥⛽️fuel (pink)
Is not #Efficient

1/3

Cut 🌎57Gt CO2e in 2024
To ⬇️11Gt (By 80% asap)

26% power
25% transport
20% industry/commerce
18% agriculture & forestry

Minnesota cut ⬇️23%
2005 - 2020; on track to cut
⬇️30% by 2025
🎯50% by 2030
🎯100% by 2050

Read 22-pg
#ClimateActionFramework
👇
climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

💚🌎Minnesota plan
#ClimateActionFramework

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

Pick a sector
& do one more thing

Report is 69-pages, lots of graphs, photos, bullet points
👇
climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...
1/3

Read Minnesota’s
#ClimateActionFramework

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

Look at two charts

A📉
MN cut 23% by 2020
Cut 30% by 2025
🎯cut 50% by 2030

B📊
By sector, in Million-Tons CO2e
35Mt 🛻🚚 🚗Transport
30 Agriculture
25 electricity
20 industry
15 commerce
10 home
5 waste

Montreal Treaty—US agreed to put 30% of •land for Nature

How much 🇺🇸land is for Beef 🥩 cattle & feed? Lots

🗺️ Bloomberg infographic
Crops we eat
🆚
Pasture for cows/cattle
Livestock feed
🆚
Ethanol 🌽corn⛽️

#ClimateActionFramework 📊
Show Minnesota GHG emissions
By sector:
Cars 35Mt
Ag 30Mt
Power 25Mt

Cut 🔥⛽️Transport pollution;
It’s MN’s biggest #Climate sector

📊 35Mt CO2e ⛽️🚗
Per #ClimateActionFramework
MN cut 30% ⬇️ GHG since 2005

What if we reduce VMT?
Vehicle miles traveled

Ex. Safe/Protected bike routes

✅ 23-pg MnDot report in 2023
👇
mdl.mndot.gov/_flysystem/f...

To support •Transport with low CO2e [prefer walkable cities, e-bikes, bus, transit, train]

MN report
#ClimateActionFramework

Facts on greenhouse gas emissions:

📊
25Mt CO2e⛽️

📉
MN cut ⬇️ 23% of 155Mt CO2e
2005-2020
&
⬇️30% by 2025

Go Faster than 🎯100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

…new data center fee
😁 directs funds to

•weatherization
for low-income residents
to make
energy-efficient upgrades.”

@reprickhansen.bsky.social
relates to MN law to

📏measure 125M tons CO2e

🎯set 30% ⬇️by 2025

💪do cuts

🔄 repeat
#ClimateActionFramework

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...
2/3

Who #DidThis ? Share a photo of
more action/s to solve #Climate

1 clothespins🧺
To hang & dry laundry
Vs 🔥🔌

2 grow Veg
Eat local;
try to grow 🍅🥬🫜🌿in a pot

3 enjoy shade
Sit under a tree

4 read facts
About #Climate solutions
Ex.
#ClimateActionFramework

Or
drawdown.org/index.php/cl...

World •57 Gt CO2e
Per IEA

Minnesota emits ⬇️23% less
2002-2020 per
#ClimateActionFramework

Emits ⬇️30% less 2025🎯

💙 35 Mt ⛽️🚗 Transport
💚 30 🚜💩 Ag
🖤 25 🔥🔌 power
🧡 20 🏭 industry
🩵 15 🛒comm
💛 10🏠res
🤎 5 🚮🗑️waste

Your energy upgrades?
🌞🔌🚙
🔌🥵🥶
Insulate, air seal🪟💨

Art by
@rewiringamerica.bsky.social

What more can we do?
•ask state, county, city…
to solve #Climate faster

Plan-Do-Reflect

usclimatealliance.org/members/minn...

1 📏report qty of CO2e

2 🎯set targets, by sector
By 2025, by 2026…

3 💲pay for upgrades Now
Which saves $ long term

4 🔄 repeat

Read report
#ClimateActionFramework

Copy Minnesota to cut GHG

💚🌎 Read #ClimateActionFramework
& pick what you feel will work in your City, County, State

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

MN cut 23% GHG 2005-2020

Next targets 🎯
30% by 2030
100% by 2050

The #ClimateTrace data is
•60 days prior
Can be granular to Country, State, City or 600M sites

MN data is •3 years prior
#ClimateActionFramework
By sector CO2e in MillionTons
💙💚🖤🧡🩵💛🤎

💙 35 🔥⛽️🚗
💚 30 🔥🚜
🖤 25 🔥🔌
🧡 20 🔥🏭
🩵 15 🔥🛒
💛10 🔥🥵🏠
🤎 5 🗑️

Interview #Mnleg
#ClimateActionFramework

@reprickhansen.bsky.social

Read ~20-pg report 📸& 📊
climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...

💚🌎MN cut CO2e by 23%⬇️
On track for
30%⬇️ by 2025

100%⬇️ by 2050
#ClimateActionFramework
📊MN CO2e

✳️Prof. Kimberly Nicholas:
Want to take effective climate action?

Focus
reduce the biggest pie piece you can

✈️ =👤ind.
🏭 = biz

Evidence-based advice
from a climate scientist

wecanfixit.substack.com

💚🌎Worth a read. #Climate report Minnesota 20-pg
#ClimateActionFramework

MN cut CO2e
⬇️23% from 2005-2030

On track/cut
⬇️30% by 2025

🎯 cut
⬇️100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

By sector

💙35Mt CO2e ⛽️ cars
💚 30 🚜Ag
🖤 25 ⚡️electric
🧡 20 🏭industry
🩵 15 🛒commerce
💛 10 🏠res
🤎 5 🗑️waste

💚🌎 US Youth study

1📣 #climate is #ActNow
& Avoid worse future injustices, push today’s ⏸️adult leaders to ⏩⏩⏩

2⚡️Transform!
youth 🪛spur climate justice
via group action

✅Read MN
#ClimateActionFramework
•rural EV chargers
•transit
•protected ebike lanes, ped
climate.state.mn.us/getting-minn...

Help MN cut CO2e, by sector
#ClimateActionFramework
•At Home
•in your City

35Mt CO2e Transport🔥⛽️
30 Agriculture 🔥⛽️🌽
25 make electricity 🔥🧪
20 industry🔥🏭steel, cement

15 commerce🛒
10 residential 🥵🥶
5 landfills

www.pca.state.mn.us/climate-acti...

@c40cities
@strongtowns

See 20-pg report =MN as a case study #Climate
•mostly photos /caption
•charts

#ClimateActionFramework

climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...

World cut from 5C 📉3C path
World ok’d 1.5C target w/o $ to do that

We are at 1.4C, with
⚠️10-yr lag time from burning 🔥⛽️🛢️🧪🪨to feeling 🌡️🥵bad temp effects😫

💚🌎🥅100% by 2050

Would you share 🇺🇸Minnesota
#ClimateActionFramework

1 📏measure CO2e

2 🎯set targets
•Cut 23% 2005 - 2020

3 💪🏽do the work
•by sector:
🌞💨🔌
🚴🏻‍♂️🏙️🚌🔌
🏠#heatpump @ipha.bsky.social
🫛>🥩

4 🔄repeat

✔️23% 📉CO2e cut by 2020
•New 🎯30% by 2025
💚🌎🥅100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...

MN cut greenhouse gas emissions 23% 2005-2020

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

Line chart
Set targets &
Cut 30% by 2025 via
#ClimateActionFramework
Cut 100% by 2050

Bar Chart shows by sector
35Mt CO2e transport
30 agriculture
25 electric
20 manuf
15 commerce
10 residential
5 landfills

Insurance industry will go bankrupt; few can buy homes

Or

Cheaper &
We can cut 51Gt emissions

✅ ask leaders to copy MN’s
#ClimateActionFramework
•measure
•set targets
•do energy upgrades
•repeat

We cut 23% 2005-2020
Now cut 30% by 2025
Cut 100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

Why did MN prioritize these?
✔️We contacted/urged govt & biz leaders to #ActNow

#ClimateActionFramework
=
•measure📏CO2e by sector
•set 🎯
•do the work 💪🏾💪💪🏽💪🏻
•Repeat 🔄

Left📸
⬇️23% less emissions
MN 2005-2020
📉Set 🎯⬇️30% by 2025

Right📸
📊shows __Mt CO2e:
💙35🚗⛽️
💚30🚜
🖤25⚡️
🧡20🏭
🩵15🛒
💛10🏠
🚮5

💚🌎What’s your city or state’s #climate plan?

📏measure
🎯 set target, vs baseline
💪🏽act
🔄repeat

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

✅Copy Minnesota’s
#ClimateActionFramework
20-pg, lots of 📊 & 📸
🎯⬇️23% CO2e 2005-2020
📊by sector
30Mt CO2e ⛽️🚗
25 🚜Ag
20 🔥🔌
15🏭
10🛒

New 🎯
⬇️30% by 2025
⬇️100% by 2050

Read Minnesota’s 💚🌎plan

#ClimateActionFramework

📏measure CO2e
🎯set target
💪do it
🔄repeat

We cut ⬇️23% 2005-2020

& set New targets by sector
🎯30% by 2025
🔌🚴🏻‍♂️🔌🚌
🌞💨🔌
#Heatpump 🥵🥶

🎯100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...

📊shows 📏2005-2020

⛽️🚗35Mt CO2e in 2020
🧑🏻‍🌾🚜30
⚡️🔌25
🏭20
🛒15
🏠10
🚮5

Why not copy parts of Minnesota’s
#ClimateActionFramework ?

20-pg mostly photos & graphs
📏measure
🎯target
💪🏽do
🔄repeat

climate.state.mn.us/minnesotas-c...

📊shows 2005-2020
23%📉in CO2e by sector
New 🎯30% by 2025

100% by 2050

35 Mt CO2e⛽️🚗
30 🚜
25 ⚡️
20 🏭
15 🛒
10🏠
5 🗑️

Since 🔵Gov Walz is running for VP, here is MN’s 20-pg
#ClimateActionFramework

Cut CO2e ⬇️23%
2005-2020
📊by sector📏

New 🎯⬇️30% by 2025

⬇️100% by 2050

climate.state.mn.us/sites/climat...