I started writing New Year’s resolution posts in 2016. Previous New Year’s posts have included help the public learn about NOAA (2017), help students feel hope towards climate action (2019), answer Dr. Lubchenco’s call for a renewed social contract (2020), and create community engagement as a science activator (2021). All of these prior posts are an excellent foundation for and connection to this year’s post.

What will your New Year’s resolution be? @CountUsInSOCIAL is providing simple options to make climate action your resolution. https://t.co/vH8gAwFKSC

— Climate Connections (@CC_Yale) December 27, 2021

There are so many topics and efforts that deserve our attention – how can we possibly select which one (or more than one) to declare as a New Year’s resolution? One can’t go wrong with increasing our actions relating to addressing climate change. I’ve embedded several tweets in this post that link to several ideas – from conversations to have to articles to read and reflect upon. There are even specific actions recommended from the podcast How to Save a Planet to an article from Project Drawdown.

The new year is almost here, so this week we are sharing our own 2022 climate resolutions! Click the link below to hear resolutions from some of the members of our HTSAP team, and an update on the #teamtrees episode. #How2SaveAPlanet https://t.co/LE7m3Ryokg

— How to Save a Planet (@how2saveaplanet) December 16, 2021

What can *you* do to fight climate change? Start by talking to those around you.

Watch @KHayhoe‘s full talk here: https://t.co/nzywH3oJ1A pic.twitter.com/85GVZxsEQY

— TEDCountdown (@TEDCountdown) November 25, 2021

The science is clear: our choices will determine our future. And as @CFigueres says, “we are only every as doomed as we believe ourselves to be.” My latest essay, here: https://t.co/4Ut6Cs87WI

— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 19, 2021

And by talking about it – where by “talking” I mean anything that communicates with others, including writing, posting, and acting – we engage our climate shadow, which is far, far larger than our personal carbon footprint. As @emmalincolnblog says here, https://t.co/tlBNwEJQtu

— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 19, 2021

Looking for a #NewYearsResolution? Project Drawdown’s @ChadFrischmann and @CrystalChissell outline the powerful role of household and individual actions in solving climate change. https://t.co/qmtCbSotBi #ClimateAction

— Project Drawdown (@ProjectDrawdown) December 29, 2021

From driving less to saving electricity, from reducing food waste to recycling, each of us can #ActNow for people & planet.

Get inspired to make #ClimateAction your New Year’s resolution! https://t.co/mezgw4kocS pic.twitter.com/5HXVpEjZVh

— United Nations (@UN) December 30, 2021

So what’s the best way to move forward in 2022 with climate action? Covering Climate Now published an article in December 2021 titled Climate Journalism’s Watchwords in 2022? Accountability and Hope – it will be interesting to see if the articles we read in 2022 are using these terms. Perhaps reading books such as All We Can Save – Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis and Saving Us – A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World will give us enough examples of what is currently being done, what still can be done, and how we can follow through with action. This past November, my campus organized a TED Countdown event and hosted a TEDx evening with lectures on climate solutions, putting the attention on the actions and not the challenges. I’m not sure what all of my own actions will be in 2022, but they will be informed, intentional, and frequent.

Imagine if we all resolved in 2022 to do everything we could to tackle climate change and save our planet.

That’s a New Year’s resolution worth keeping. pic.twitter.com/mP2UBeliYz

— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) December 31, 2021