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Spotlight: Pathways to progress

Greg De Temmerman

Climate progress isn't a sprint — it's a marathon

Fighting climate change is much like long-distance running: a complex journey filled with obstacles, fast-changing conditions and the need for constant adaptation. Drawing on his own experience as an ultramarathon runner, energy expert Greg de Temmerman charts a path for climate action that balances difficult choices and imperfect solutions with the need for urgent progress.

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Danielle Butcher Franz

I’m a conservative — and I care about the climate, too

Environmental challenges aren't for just one political party to deal with — everyone must work together to solve them, says conservation champion Danielle Butcher Franz. Drawing on her work with young conservatives mobilizing environmental action, she shares how bridging divides and embracing shared values is the only way to tackle one of the world's biggest problems.

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Jute is one of the best alternatives to plastic products. Due to heavy rains over the Bay of Bengal, many rural areas of West Bengal received sufficient water resources to support jute farming, which has grown drastically.

Dipayan Bose

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Monitoring photobioreactors in the micro-algae production facility in Hellisheidi.

Simone Tramonte

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A young girl walks along a ruined, flooded road in Isle de Jean, Louisiana.

Stacy Kranitz

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In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, located in southern Mauritania on the banks of the Senegal River, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden

Raphael Pouget

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