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Your Climate Action Diary - 38

Year 2023 • Week 18 • Anushthatri Sharma
Hi,

Hope you are well !
The widespread extent, intensity (and early arrival) of the heat waves in India are making rounds in all news cycles around the world. And fairly so.

We at OnePointFive, are more focused on the factors that lead to climate-change. This dialogue often gets lost in big-media and everyday conversation, which tend to focus more on the "impacts of climate change (heatwaves, floods, cyclones, sea-levels etc".

We at OnePointFive work hard to fill this gap in public debate. We believe that the more you become aware of the 'WHAT' leads to climate change, the more are the chances are that you will innovate solutions (policies, activism, business models, technology, best practices) within your own worlds of expertise. We are betting on your abilities to inspire :) 

This week, though, we had to pull in the heat-waves. It really is an alarm bell, we could not exclude.

Stay mindful, 

Harish, Team OnePointFive Tribe

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