New Security Beat

For our states, equity is becoming the core. How do you make sure that your climate policy is not only not making additional burdens in communities, but that the policies are reversing past inequities? - Julie Cerqueira @USClimate #Diplomacy21

If black and brown communities had as much power at the local level as white communities do, I don’t know that we would have coal plants in the United States. - @elanstrait #Diplomacy21

Can you make the Paris Agreement accessible to the public? I think one of the questions that communities in the United States face is: What do I have to gain from the Paris Agreement? - @elanstrait #Diplomacy21

One of the places where we have failed is to sometimes use the number of resources deployed as sort of the marker of success without thinking about whether the resources are being used efficiently. - Julie Cerqueira @USClimate #Diplomacy21

#Multilateralism is back. It needs to come back in a new and improved form. And because of all this activity in the subnational and non-governmental space, we’re at an inflection point, and we’re ready to make that change. - @JAustinWMB #Diplomacy21

We need systemic transformation and even the concept of radical collaboration. And recognizing this moment that this moment is unique and it’s not an easy challenge, and there’s no guarantee that we meet it. -@JAustinWMB #Diplomacy21