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The topic of how to finance climate resilience and mitigation in countries most impacted by the crisis continues to build momentum worldwide, with several announcements this week alone. Days after negotiations reached a standstill in Bonn over whether emission reduction talks at COP28 would include finance, world leaders met in Paris to specifically discuss providing…
This week, the mayors of London and Montréal – Sadiq Khan and Valérie Plante – met in London to discuss city collaboration on climate, launching a report on urban rewilding that shares best practices from urban nature initiatives from around the world. Case studies include pocket forests in São Paulo, vertical gardens in Lagos, biodiversity…
What collaborative opportunities exist to help communities cope with extreme heat? Intense, record-breaking heat waves have enveloped large parts of Asia in the last week, bringing questions of state preparedness to the forefront. In a story about heat-related fatalities in India over the weekend, The New York Times states: “Extreme heat can be deceptively dangerous,…
How is solutions journalism impacting efforts to address climate change? It’s hard to effect change if a large chunk of people worldwide are tuned out, largely due to emotional burn-out from problem-centric reporting. But a growing shift into what some are calling a “solutions era” of journalism is making its own headlines. Today’s Editor’s Pick…
What can we learn from and help with in the debate over opening the deep sea to mining? What produces half the oxygen we breathe and absorbs one-quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions along with more than 93% of excess heat caused by global warming? It’s the ocean! And among the clear risks to ocean…
Question: Is shareholder pressure a meaningful lever for change? How can there be more of it? Or are other strategies smarter? NPR reported this morning that corporate shareholders are putting increasing pressure on boards to deal with climate change. Across the United States, shareholders have “filed around 540 proposals as of mid-February asking companies to…