Turn Your Climate Ambition Into Action
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Climate action is a?personal and powerful?choice . Though the causes of the crisis are undeniably systemic in nature, individuals?can exert positive pressure to change systems ?from energy and finance to food and fashion.?
Changing the world for the sake of the planet is a theme running through?Aspen Ideas: Climate , the Miami-based and climate-focused iteration of our summer festival. Running from May 9-12, the event included mainstage discussions, roundtables, tours, and a gathering of policymakers, scientific experts, corporate leaders, inventors, innovators, artists, influencers, and engaged members of the public.?
Worsening storms and rising temperatures are just some of the ways climate change is poised to endanger the lives of workers. Coupled with the erosion of workplace protections, climate-fueled workplace fatalities are?a worrying sign of what is to come . Rather than focus on short-term priorities, businesses, policymakers, and communities need to work toward a sustainable future, says Shelly Steward of the?Future of Work Initiative .
Heat is an?increasingly dangerous public health crisis —especially in urban areas with low-quality infrastructure and few trees. Glass, heat, cement, and asphalt absorb and store heat during the day, radiating it after dark to keep the city sweltering through the night. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer for the city of Athens, Greece, explains how we can create global heat resilience through awareness, preparedness, and redesign.
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Already, one in three people around the world lacks access to adequate food. As the impacts of climate change intersect with an ever-growing global population, food security has become an issue of extreme importance. Members of the?New Voices Fellowship ?and?Healthy Communities Fellowship ?are working across sectors, all over the world, to provide nutrition access to those most in need.
2021 saw an increase in public awareness of how climate change affects weather patterns and how it’s harming people in the United States. This may be because more Americans have direct experience with climate-fueled disasters; perhaps tornadoes are louder than the political noise surrounding the issue. Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz writes on the topic before speaking at?Aspen Ideas: Climate in a session called ‘Climate Change in the American Mind .’
The society we’ve constructed and the comfort we enjoy today are built on our use of the planet’s energy resources. But we’ve built this energy system in an unsustainable way. Creating an energy system that balances economic, national security, and environmental needs is?an extraordinarily complex task , but it’s absolutely vital to get it right because our way of life depends on it, says Jason Bordoff, co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School and a?plenary speaker ?at?Aspen Ideas: Climate .Our Approach to the Climate Crisis
In Focus: Rising to the Climate Challenge ?spotlights the work of 15 programs and initiatives who are tackling climate change from their area of expertise. We look at four main facets of the issue, explaining how climate change affects labor and the economy; youth and education; public health and safety; and our communities. The Institute's programs reflect an astounding diversity of focus and purpose regarding the health of our planet and the welfare of the those who inhabit it.
ESG/Sustainability, Non-profit Development and Philanthropy, Climate Action / Aspen Institute Global Leadership Fellow
2 年Introducing "Iniciativa para la Acción Climática", a newly formed non-profit based out of El Salvador, and focused on generating climate resiliency in Central America, through adaptation and mitigation initiatives. https://jmagreen.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/iniciativa-para-la-accion-climatica/
Your Research and CRM Solution
2 年Turning ambition into action channels personal ambition into a framework for common civic good. The The Aspen Institute In-Focus motif shows how, like the lens of a camera, what we give attention to gives rise to what we grasp and understand. The triumph of Aspen Ideas will be turning viewers into thinkers. What we see visually is what we know, in an immediate sense, without deduction or induction. Aspen Ideas: Climate placed a flag in the heart of climate action that people can gather around intellectually, socially, and professionally this year and next. The ‘Rising to the Challenge’ approach reminds me of the adage ‘ask not for lighter burdens, but for broader shoulders.’ The interlocking pinks and yellows of the In-Focus logo suggest energy, youth, and diverse perspectives integrated around one common goal. You featured workplaces, extreme heat, food security, education, and clean energy as flagship efforts among 15-climate engaged programs. Now the real test will be consistently moving people from viewers to thinkers to allies.