30 Ways In 30 Days to Combat Climate Change - UNEP Program Highlights What We Need More Of

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With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change--considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year, taking meaningful individual action comes back to the forefront. Starting their '30 ways in 30 days' program, UNEP is highlighting a really pretty cool way to help get Indian villages electricity, though solar power and solar-specific loans. Here are the details:

The problem is that over 60% of Indian households don't have reliably access to electricity and use kerosene of biomass for heating, lighting, and cooking--the former is a fossil fuel with all the resulting climate change problems and both can have serious associated health problems when burned indoors and you're constantly exposed to it. Solar power is an obvious solution, but is far out of reach financially for many people.

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