Twelve women carrying the flame for climate action despite the headwinds

Frances Seymour smiles at the camera, wearing a tan jacket and a light colored shirt

photo by Ian Hardy

Twelve women carrying the flame for climate action despite the headwinds

It’s been a tough year for anyone working on the climate agenda. The Trump Administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal underpinning of U.S. climate regulation, was a coup de grace, after a litany of regulatory cuts and other moves to remove any impediment to unfettered fossil fuel development in the world’s largest economy.

Where the U.S. has led, much of the world has followed, with action on the nature and climate crises losing steam as corporate and government leaders have been forced to respond to a new U.S. administration determined to up-end the collaborative, rules-based international order.

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