<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">“...many scientists say <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">deep emissions cuts are necessary</span> … to prevent … </div><div class="">dangerous consequences of global warming. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"Getting from here to there would require a massive economic shift.”</span></div><div class=""><br class="">Rachel Pannett and Jeffrey Ball. “Australia Approves Energy Bill.” <br class="">The Wall Street Journal p.A7, August 21,<b class=""> 2009</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class="m_-713562249691475623Apple-interchange-newline">~~~~~~~~~~ </font><font color="#222222" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> </span></font><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">to save farms, forests, waters, wildlife, kids </span><font color="#222222" class=""> </font><font color="#222222" class="">—</font><font color="#222222" class=""> and the economy </font></b><font color="#222222" face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> </span></font><font style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“... the report warns that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">we have reached a one-time “use it or lose it” moment </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><<<a href="https://newclimateeconomy.report/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newclimateeconomy.report/&source=gmail&ust=1536787066777000&usg=AFQjCNFrgkMk-MLEoVXq36Nwbj8KAGwHTA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://newclimateeconomy.<wbr class="">report/</a>>>.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(245, 236, 0);" class="">“ …<span class="m_-713562249691475623Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 236, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">key</span> investment<span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> decisions made in</span><b class=""> the next two to three years </b><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">will determine whether we lock the world onto a path to resilient growth or climatic ruin by 2030, according to the report.”</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“… an action plan that would include: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">ramped up </span><b class=""><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carbon-pricing-making-the-invisible-visible_us_59df3468e4b069e5b833b26f" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carbon-pricing-making-the-invisible-visible_us_59df3468e4b069e5b833b26f&source=gmail&ust=1536787066777000&usg=AFQjCNH_ed7hHcMpeEQiUbe-GyEY1nJU9g" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">carbon pricing</span></a>, fossil fuel subsidy phase-outs, mandatory disclosure of climate-related financial risks</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">,</b><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and a doubling of sustainable development banks to at least $100 billion per year </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">by 2020</b></span><span style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> the same year that all Fortune 500 companies would have to set </span><a href="https://sciencebasedtargets.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sciencebasedtargets.org/&source=gmail&ust=1536787066777000&usg=AFQjCNGE5o8xvZRPcqnQi-fp8QFUVH-EAQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">science-based climate targets</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">One of its authors, professor Nicholas Stern, the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, said he is very optimistic that humanity can avoid dangerous global warming but is “greatly worried as to whether we will move fast enough to do so.”</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_us_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_us_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f&source=gmail&ust=1536787066777000&usg=AFQjCNESjZUy3JJ--3w9NN4xXLd0LBnyug" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.huffingtonpost.<wbr class="">com/entry/runaway-climate-<wbr class="">change-2030-report_us_<wbr class="">5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;" class="">============</div><div style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">#3. Swallow hard — and raise the price of carbon.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> </span>If we are to meet climate pledges made under the Paris climate agreement, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">the cost of emitting carbon dioxide must rise to $50–$100 per ton <b class="">by 2030</b></span>, dramatically higher than the current EU price of less than $6. <br class=""><br class="">Harvard Business Review<br class=""><a href="https://hbr.org/2018/01/climate-change-is-an-overwhelming-problem-here-are-4-things-executives-can-do-today" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://hbr.org/2018/01/climate-change-is-an-overwhelming-problem-here-are-4-things-executives-can-do-today&source=gmail&ust=1536787066778000&usg=AFQjCNGdSwns_mLijB6SKFdOfiK5uhOGpQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://hbr.org/2018/01/climat<wbr class="">e-change-is-an-overwhelming-<wbr class="">problem-here-are-4-things-<wbr class="">executives-can-do-today</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">A core question: What is “resilience”?</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">2018 — “Resilience is a popular narrative for conservation and provides an opportunity to communicate optimism that ecosystems can recover and rebound from disturbances.” (Emily S. Darling<span style="vertical-align: 4px;" class=""> </span><i class="">and </i>Isabelle M. Côté, Science, March 2, 2018). </p><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">2014 — “Emerging from a wide range of disciplines, resilience in policy-making has often been based on the ability of systems to bounce back to normality, drawing on engineering concepts. This implies the return of the functions of an individual, household, community or ecosystem to previous conditions, with as little damage and disruption as possible following shocks and stresses” (Tanner et al, Nature Climate Change, December 18, 2014). </span></div><div id="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-AppleMailSignature" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-ApplePlainTextBody"><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">1938 — Resilience<b class="">.</b><span class="m_-1046162086629656228gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>1- The act or power of springing back to a former position or shape. 2. The quantity of work given back by a body that is compressed to a certain limit and then allowed to recover itself, as a spring under pressure suddenly relaxed.” (Funk & Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, vol.2, M-Z 1938)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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