The Climate Fix: Solutions for a Warming World

Addressing climate change is a gargantuan task.Beyond simply reducing planet-warming emissions, the work of adapting to a hotter world and stopping global warming will touch every industry in every country on Earth.Cities need to become more resilient to extreme heat.

Factories need to become less polluting.Coastal communities need to adapt to rising seas.

Financial markets need to evolve to make these changes possible.Fortunately, a huge amount of this work is already underway.In this new newsletter series, The Climate Fix, we’ll be highlighting solutions that have the potential to make a difference at scale.(The series will appear on Thursdays in our biweekly newsletter Climate Forward.

Sign up here.)From clean energy, to conservation efforts, to innovative legal and policy strategies, new innovations are already making a difference.Each week, we’ll focus on a new fix, examining its potential and assessing the potential obstacles.

To kick off the series, we’re looking at two solutions.Thanks for reading, and you can read the most recent Climate Fix below.The fund that wants to pay billions to protect forests — and generate returnsThe problem: Every year over the last two decades, countries have been losing about nine million acres of tropical forest that are crucial to curbing climate change.Markets for selling carbon credits and other financial mechanisms have not significantly changed that trend globally.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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