The operating system

Local experience and global planning, linked both ways

GSOP is not a single website feature. It is a process: evaluate options with shared standards, test them where people live and work, and combine what works into plans that add up.

The flow

Information moves up and down, not only from experts outward.

Local ideas & projectsCommunities, cities, and industries already taking action, and the ideas and barriers they encounter.
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State & industry outreachOutreach engineers share evaluated options and return local results, acceptability, and pilot feedback.
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National teamsEach nation evaluates options and builds a national action plan suited to its situation.
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Regional collaborationNational plans are summed and re-checked at the regional level (for example, North America).
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Global evaluation & planningRegional plans are integrated and tested against Earth’s energy balance and human feasibility.

Two linked programs

Global Solutions Program: three People’s Projects that evaluate options and build national → regional → global action plans.

Outreach Program: a two-way bridge with states, communities, and industries: share evaluated solutions, support near-term action, and feed lived experience back into the plans.

People’s Projects · Outreach · Live action-plan summaries

Every option, same standards

Candidate solutions are evaluated for technical feasibility, environmental impact, scale, timing, full-scale cost, economic supportability, and social and political acceptability, so combinations can be compared fairly across countries.

Where Climate Monitor fits

The interactive globe is GSOP’s monitoring and evidence tool (People’s Project 3). It supports the planning work. It is not the whole program.

The public map is automated NOAA evidence: NCEI Global Summary of the Year (GSOY) on a 0.5° grid (Method v1), with zoomed-out regional / ~100 km averages of those cells. Compare recent warming with the longer 1965-2004 record. Details: Methodology and About.

Live data sources used on the map:

Open Climate Monitor   Join a working team