In his first 100 days, President Biden
That’s because young people’s futures have never been more in doubt. Catastrophic warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius looks increasingly certain. It is young people and their children who will have to live in this warmed up world. Communities of color, which skew disproportionately young, are also disproportionately vulnerable to climate hazards. To add insult to ecological injury, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely damaged youth career prospects. In the United States alone, the pandemic has disrupted 70 percent of young people s education, and one in six young Americans became unemployed at the beginning of the pandemic.
Women from the Campo del Cielo community upload photographs of the Pilcomayo River and share them with each other and experts to monitor flooding. Photo by Nanum Centers.
The Pilcomayo River frequently floods, creating a reoccurring disaster of lost lives and property for the rural communities of South America’s Gran Chaco region. Unlike most rivers, during the rainy season up to a third of the Pilcomayo’s volume is sediment carried in the water, and its path is unpredictable. When the muddy river floods its banks, it deposits that sediment in huge mounds of mud, at times burying entire houses and cars.
I’m writing this on my final day at WRI, after nearly nine very happy and productive years. Together, we’ve grown the impact and the size of WRI, we’ve internationalized our reach, and we’ve built a well-functioning global team of 1,500 professionals across more than a dozen international offices. Along the way we’ve helped reshape understanding of the relationship between the natural world and economic development, we’ve introduced important new technologies and tools, and we’ve influenced key decisions in cities, corporations, communities and countries and in the global corridors of power.
In all this we’ve helped shift the needle towards hope.
Andrew Steer at the Courage to Lead event in 2017 in New York. Photo by Ayano Hisa.
I’m writing this on my final day at WRI, after nearly nine very happy and productive years. Together, we’ve grown the impact and the size of WRI, we’ve internationalized our reach, and we’ve built a well-functioning global team of 1,500 professionals across more than a dozen international offices. Along the way we’ve helped reshape understanding of the relationship between the natural world and economic development, we’ve introduced important new technologies and tools, and we’ve influenced key decisions in cities, corporations, communities and countries and in the global corridors of power.
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Macquarie joins Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership
Macquarie Group today announced it has joined the Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership (JCLP) as a supporting member, furthering its contribution to climate mitigation and adaptation.
Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership (JCLP) is a coalition of corporations whose aim is to create a sustainable net zero society. Its members (170 as of April 2021) share a common goal and proactively work with policy makers, industry peers and community groups. Since April 2017, JCLP has been The Climate Group’s regional delivery partner on RE100, EP100 and EV100 initiatives in Japan.
Macquarie is committed to driving forward the green energy transition globally, and supporting global initiatives including Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI), Global Commission on Adaptation (CGA), as well as RE100, a global corporate leadership initiative bringing together businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity and will source all