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Could Science-Based Targets Be the Key to Curtailing Global Warming?

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This piece was highlighted by Climate Earth on July 31, 2018.

The Paris Agreement of 2015, forged during that year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, provides cautious hope in the form of nearly 200 governments’ commitment to address climate change in verifiable ways. However, it alone is not enough.

A new paradigm, the low carbon economy, must be successfully built and it’s clear the world’s corporations have a lead role to play in that effort. Carbon emissions associated with the realities of conducting global business on a massive scale simply must be curtailed to achieve realization of the defining goal established in Paris – to limit this century’s temperature increase to well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Is it possible that the Science-Based Targets initiative has set in motion the necessary impetus for the critically needed transition to that low carbon economy?

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Felidae Sustineri

Zig & Zu's warm bed_cropped — Source: author

Today I’m thinking about cats and sustainability. “Oh no,” you’re thinking, “The crazy cat lady’s gonna go on about how much she loves felines.”

Well, it’s no secret that I love the critters (it’s listed right there on my ‘About’ page!). Yet there’s also a place for them in the discussion of our planet and sustainability.

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Voting with Your Dollar – How Your Choices Can Make a Difference

WEN speakers, May 2018.jpg — Event panelists Megan Morrice, Kristin Hull and Yuliya Tarasava Source: © Alison Brown Photography

This piece was published by the Women’s Environmental Network in May, 2018. Please visit the group’s website to read more about its work.

DID YOU KNOW?

Women are better investors than men, earning higher returns over at least the past decade.
For every $1 of small-business loans received by women, $23 are received by men.
Only 17 U.S. states require that high school students take a class in financial literacy…and California is not one of them.

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If you’re like me, the notion of investing or spending your hard-earned money in a way that also makes the world a better place is a wonderful concept. And maybe, like me, you can find the subject daunting. Not many of us have the time or know-how to fully vet the options for voting with our dollars, so I was inspired recently to hear a trio of trailblazing women assure a diverse audience that we all have the power to make a difference right now.

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