<ul><li>A bike-sharing program in Paris reduced emissions and boosted public health</li><li>Tree planting in urban India improved air quality and reduced heat</li><li>Energy-efficient homes lowered bills and improved comfort in US communities</li></ul>

3. Examples from Around the World

<ul><li>Multisolving is solving multiple problems with a single intervention</li><li>It focuses on collaboration across sectors like health, climate, and equity</li><li>The goal is to generate multiple benefits from one smart, strategic action</li></ul>

1. What is Multisolving

<ul><li>Co-benefits are unexpected wins like improving health while cutting emissions</li><li>Multisolving identifies and amplifies these ripple effects</li><li>It turns isolated efforts into holistic progress</li></ul>

2. The Power of Co-Benefits

<ul><li>Stories make the complex web of benefits easy to grasp</li><li>Clear communication attracts more support from the public and funders</li><li>Use data and emotion to show the full impact of a project</li></ul>

8. Communication and Storytelling Matter

<ul><li>Multisolving relies on understanding the connections between issues</li><li>It uses systems mapping to visualize cause and effect</li><li>Helps stakeholders see that a win in one area can lead to wins elsewhere</li></ul>

4. Systems Thinking as a Foundation

<ul><li>Traditional funding is siloed making multisolving harder</li><li>New policies should reward co-benefits not punish them</li><li>Cross-sector metrics are essential to prove multisolving’s value</li></ul>

7. Funding and Policy Need to Adapt

<ul><li>Multisolving prioritizes justice and ensures benefits reach marginalized groups</li><li>It addresses root causes not just symptoms</li><li>Equity makes solutions more sustainable and widely accepted</li></ul>

6. Equity Must Be Central

<ul><li>No one sector or group can solve complex problems alone</li><li>Multisolving brings together unlikely allies from health care to climate to economy</li><li>Relationships and trust are as important as data and tools</li></ul>

5. Collaboration is Non-Negotiable

<ul><li>Local experiments and pilot programs can demonstrate multisolving</li><li>Small wins build momentum and inspire replication</li><li>Always measure learn and adapt from each project</li></ul>

9. Start Small Scale Smart

<ul><li>Move from either or to yes and thinking</li><li>Success is not just about doing more it is about doing smarter</li><li>Multisolving is a hopeful practical path forward in a complex world</li></ul>

10. A Mindset Shift is Required

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The Secret Behind Fixing Everything With One Move

For most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort—long hours of teaching, attending conferences, publicizing analysis—at the end of the day, she felt like she was chasing her tail. Unless people began to recognize the multitude of unexpected benefits from ratcheting down emissions, climate change would remain a losing political issue. That experience, along with the guidance of leaders in systems thinking and racial justice, convinced her that the world’s thorniest problems may be easier to tackle together than one by one. That’s multisolving: using a single investment of time or money to solve many problems at the same time. (Reduced fossil fuel use = improvements in climate, health, equity, economics, and more.) While the idea of killing two birds with one stone (or “filling two needs with one deed”) is age-old, and the notion of co-benefits in policy-making has been around for years, Multisolving addresses the current mismatch between complex, deeply intertwined societal issues and our siloed approach to them. This unique resource is for local school boards that need revenue for their students but don’t want to overtax low-income seniors. It is for nonprofits working to reduce food waste and combat the root causes of hunger while increasing racial justice. It is for seaside communities that can protect themselves from flooding while also improving biodiversity with a living coastline. It may also be for you: doing the work you know is imperative but that is sometimes overwhelming, a tiny drop in a swirling ocean. Multisolving can’t promise a list of “fifty simple things to make everything OK.” What it does offer are strategies to build solidarity between diverse groups, overcome powerful interests, and create lasting change that benefits us all.

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