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Is Behavioral Science the Secret Ingredient for Effective Climate Action?

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to change the way they live and, in the process, cracked [...]

By cCc|2022-07-25T23:02:55-04:00April 22, 2022|Categories: Climate Action, Climate Emergency, Ideas|Tags: Urgency, World Resources Institute|0 Comments

What Is “Loss and Damage” from Climate Change? 6 Key Questions, Answered

The planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) due to human-induced climate change, [...]

By cCc|2022-04-12T14:46:43-04:00April 13, 2022|Categories: Climate Adaptation, Climate Emergency, News & Information|Tags: Urgency, World Resources Institute, Wri.org|0 Comments

3 Reasons Why Smart Charging Is Key for Electric Vehicle Fleets

The allure of electric vehicles (EVs) has never been stronger. EVs have zero tailpipe emissions, offer lower [...]

By cCc|2022-07-24T20:10:18-04:00July 19, 2021|Categories: Auto Industry, Ideas, Transportation|Tags: Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

Food Systems at Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security

This report examines how climate change is impacting agriculture and threatening national and global food systems, particularly [...]

By cCc|2021-06-23T10:15:05-04:00June 23, 2021|Categories: Agriculture, Climate Emergency, Food|Tags: Rebecca Carter, Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

RELEASE: 67 World Leaders Call for Investing in Climate Solutions for Developing Countries at 2021 P4G Seoul Summit

Role of public-private partnerships in progressing net zero commitments brought to forefront SEOUL (June 1, 2021) — 67 [...]

By cCc|2021-06-19T13:30:06-04:00June 19, 2021|Categories: Businesss, Climate Emergency, Leadership|Tags: COP26, Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

How US Companies Can Become Effective Climate Policy Advocates

For the past few years, and especially over the past few months, the bar for corporate sustainability [...]

By cCc|2022-07-24T17:01:14-04:00June 19, 2021|Categories: Businesss, Climate Emergency, Ideas|Tags: Amy Meyer, Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

Earth Day (.org) News & Stories… (also) Faces of Restoration

When life around the globe returns to normal, our world cannot return to business-as-usual. Our global community [...]

By cCc|2021-02-03T18:35:42-05:00February 3, 2021|Categories: Climate Action, Climate Emergency, EarthDay|Tags: Earth Day 2021, Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

New Maps Show Forests Absorb Twice as Much Carbon as They Release Each Year

January 21, 2021 - New globally consistent methods for mapping forest carbon sources and sinks around the [...]

By cCc|2021-01-26T08:40:54-05:00January 26, 2021|Categories: Climate Emergency, Forests|Tags: Dr. Alessandro Baccini Research Professor, Urgency, World Resources Institute|Comments Off

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Maxine Hong Kingston
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
David Suzuki
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
Christian de Duve
“The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.”
Frances Beinecke
“I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”
Al Gore
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
Barack Obama
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.”
Ban Ki-moon
“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course”.
Juan Manuel Santos
“Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, and I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
Yuval Noah Harari
“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
Ban Ki-moon
“The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels and we need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.”
Sir Nicholas Stern
“Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.”
Noam Chomsky
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Terri Swearingen
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”
David King
“Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”
Marco Lambertini
“A planet being pushed to the edge will eventually turn on us.”
Paul Krugman
“The planet will continue to cook.”
Aldo Leopold
“The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.”
Wallace Broecker
“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
Al Gore
“We are running out of time, and we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”