A heat wave is sweeping America, but people across the world are also devising unconventional strategies to battle climate change.
Why you should care
This OZY series takes you to the nations and individuals driving innovative solutions at the New Climate Change Frontiers.
By OZY Editors
The Daily DoseJUL 22 2019
This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and vault you ahead.
WHAT TO KNOW
OZY Fest, our annual festival of ideas, music, comedy and food, was canceled by the City of New York this past weekend as temperatures rose to their highest in seven years. The heat wave, demonstrative of broader climate changes, is sweeping large parts of North America. Across the Atlantic, France last month saw an all-time high temperature of 113 degrees. In Italy, 16 cities issued heat-related alerts in June, and several regions of Germany, Poland and Switzerland experienced record high temperatures. Meanwhile, Spain battled its biggest wildfires in 20 years. Yet the news isn’t all grim. From Bangalore to Manhattan, revolutions in renewable energy, reforestation and water usage are offering hope. OZY’s series “The New Frontiers of Climate Change” focuses on people and teams around the world who are coming up with surprising but potentially game-changing ways to fight global warming.
Gettyimages 1043889836Delegates and experts attend the opening ceremony of the 48th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Incheon, South Korea, in October 2018.
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