A full video of the conversation is available on YouTube. The quotes in this story were drawn from an online panel conversation about local climate solutions hosted by The River on July 14, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Climate.” They have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Meet seven people in the Hudson Valley and Catskills who are doing the work right now-and seven local solutions that take aim at some of our toughest problems of decarbonization and community resilience. That work has a long way to go to ensure a livable future for human communities, but it has already begun. The science is clear: To avoid the worst impacts of a changing climate, economies around the world will need to decarbonize soon. If there was any doubt left for the empirically minded, this month’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-a synthesis of eight years of international climate science-told a compelling story of climate impacts that have already begun to accelerate sooner than expected. They are here, they are real, and increasingly, they are local, as sea level rise and extreme weather take aim at communities in the Hudson Valley and Catskills.
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