Time to act to avoid even worse consequences of climate change: Grant Goodrich

With the 30th annual “Conference of the Parties” (COP30) now underway in Brazil, much of the news over the next two weeks will report that far more needs to be done to ensure a livable planet for all. In advance of this annual conference convened for nations to address climate change, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres stated that “ the world has failed to ensure that global warming remains below 1.5 degrees C ,” a threshold that he himself called a “red line for humanity. ”

As the lead for the research team that contributed the technical volumes for the Cleveland-Elyria Metropolitan Statistical Area’s comprehensive climate action plan this year, three things in particular struck me about the role that Clevelanders, our companies, and our communities play in addressing glob