Kathy Baughman McLeod discusses Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg

The conventional wisdom holds that climate change is a problem for international organizations, big governments, and global corporations to solve. Only those major players can make a dent in global greenhouse gas emissions, the thinking goes, and only they can pool the necessary resources. Given the monumental scale of the coming climate crisis, anything short of such high-level mobilization seems inconsequential, even futile.

As we enter a new decade, the global challenges that we face are more complex, frequent and intense than ever. The Center’s mission is to reach One Billion People with resilience solutions to urgent challenges including natural disasters, migration, extreme heat and water/food insecurity by 2030. But this cannot be done alone.