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Protect Nature, cooperatively, for the best possible human future (opens the original)
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In 2015, as the community of nations moved toward adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, which recognize our dependence on living ecosystems on land and in marine environments, Pope Francis issued a landmark encyclical letter, Laudato Si’, subtitled “On Caring for Our Common Home”. The mission of Creation Care became front page news, and it was encouraging that the governments of nearly 200 nations agreed it was an essential part of their service to their people.At the heart of Laudato
Income inequality is a climate challenge (opens the original)
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Societies in which a greater number of people have access to incomes that allow for stable middle-class economic experiences are better able to routinely invest in world-leading innovation. The reason is simple: The more places across an economy where regular revenues can flow from, the more regularly financing can be secured to invest in new ways of securing future revenues.Generalized prosperity creates the foundations for ongoing generalized prosperity.Extreme income inequality, in which the
Overshooting 1.5ºC is failure, but it is not the end (opens the original)
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Global heating is the effect of greenhouse gases—carbon-based compounds that have an effect similar to glass in a greenhouse, trapping heat in while allowing light to reflect back into space. In 2015, 196 nations asked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to study global warming of 1.5ºC. In 2018, that report found that warming of 1.5ºC would have dangerous, destabilizing, and prohibitively costly consequences.Now, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reports that “Glo
Resilience Intelligence can turn risk into opportunity (opens the original)
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The Resilience Intel Charter was released during an event in San Francisco, on September 12, 2018, during the Global Climate Action Summit. Its purpose was to establish foundational guidelines for a diverse, decentralized, global effort to develop actionable insights for reducing climate-related risk and supporting resilient means for people, communities, and nations to enhance opportunity, security, and wellbeing.Earth Civics and the Climate Value Exchange are republishing the Resilience Intel
Eliminate climate costs in trade (opens the original)
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National governments have a duty to eliminate climate costs, including in trade relationships and related business activities, financial arrangements, and everyday outcomes. This is not just an advocate’s view or a wish; this is the law. The International Court of Justice found last year that national governments have a duty, inherent in the foundations of human rights and governmental legitimacy, to reduce the risk that their people will face climate harm and cost.During the COVID-19 pand
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