Last week’s climate conference noted ways in which solving the climate crisis is not only possible, it’s profitable.
Bob Bunting, left, founder and director of the Sarasota Climate Conference, and Carlos Curbelo, former Representative for Florida’s 26th Congressional District, speaking at the third annual climate conference in Sarasota.
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At last Thursday’s climate conference, Sarasota’s Climate Adaptation Center brought together what might initially seem like a strange group of people: key business leaders, a paleontologist, scientists, an insurance innovator, finance leaders, academics and philanthropists. The topic of the day? “The Triple Threat of Water.”
The conference showed that community is crucial for adapting to and mitigating climate crises, which require us to work together and learn from each other to secure a livable future in which we all can thrive. Every past success with climate issues-like the continued elimination of ozone-depleting substances through the Montreal Protocol, which has resulted in the ozone hole getting smaller over time-has come from this kind of communal decision-making. And within every talk or panel discussion at the conference, now in its third year, the phrase “we need to work together” was used.