The document discusses several topics including: 1) Poverty falling but inequality rising as the richest 42 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.7 billion. 2) Global emissions are on the rise again in 2018 with a 3.4% increase in the US, the biggest since 2010, leading to more extreme climate events like stronger storms and fiercer fires. 3) The fashion industry is surging but also creating a large amount of waste and pollution while some companies are pioneering more sustainable practices.

3. POVERTY FALLING
Image: Flickr/Allie_Caulfield
25 million people
lifted out of
extreme poverty
in 2018

4. BUT, INEQUALITY RISING
Image: Flickr/Allie_Caulfield
Richest 42
people =
poorest
3.7 billion
people

5. ECONOMIC VOLATILITY
Source: Webfg.com

6. A SEASON OF DISCONTENT
Image: Shutterstock

7. COALITIONS FALL APART
Image: Flickr/Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE)
Brexit deadline:
March 29, 2019

8. OLD RULES DON’T APPLY
Image: Associated Press

9. WHO COMES NEXT AT WORLD BANK?
Image: Wikimedia Commons/Koch / MSC

12. GLOBAL EMISSIONS ON THE RISE
Source: Global Carbon Project

13. GLOBAL EMISSIONS ON THE RISE
Source: Global Carbon Project / Rhodium Group
2018 US emissions
rose 3.4% —
biggest increase
since 2010

14. MORE EXTREME EVENTS
Image: Cpl. Dylan Chagnon

15. THE PROBLEM IS CLEAR…
Image: IISD/ENB | Sean Wu
Special Report on
Global Warming of
1.5 Degrees

16. …SO IS THE OPPORTUNITY
Image: REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
$26 trillion gain
through to 2030

17. PROGRESS IN POLAND
Image: IISD/ENB | Sean Wu

18. BRAZIL MOVES RIGHT…
Image: Flickr/Neil Palmer/CIAT

19. …MEXICO MOVES LEFT
Image: Flickr/Presidencia de la República Mexicana

20. TRANSITION IN GERMANY
Image: bilderseo.com

21. ELECTIONS IN INDONESIA…
Image: Flickr/uyeah

22. …AND IN INDIA
Image: Flickr/DIRCO

23. CANADA INTRODUCES CARBON TAX
Image: U.S. Air Force, Senior Airman Joshua R. M. Dewberry

24. CHINA’S ECONOMY SLOWS
Image: kremlin.ru

26. WILL LEADERS STEP
UP AT UN SUMMIT?
Image: Flickr/jST.
WHAT TO WATCH:
September 2019

27. GREEN CLIMATE FUND REPLENISHMENT:
AMBITION AND REFORM?
Image: Flickr/German Development Institute
WHAT TO WATCH:
October 2019

28. WILL ACTION OUTPACE POLITICS?
Image: Flickr/Steven Vance
WHAT TO WATCH:
500+ companies
take action through
Science Based Targets
Maersk set a
net zero CO2
target by 2050

31. ADAPTATION ISN’T A NEW CONCEPT
Image: Flickr/Tom Gill
2001
IPCC 3rd ASSESSMENT:
Impacts, Adaptation,
Vulnerability
UNFCCC COP 7:
National Adaptation
Programmes of Action

32. CLIMATE IMPACTS ARE HERE NOW
Image: Flickr/Asian Development Bank
Extreme climate-
related disasters
DOUBLED
since early 1990s

33. Image: Wikimedia/NASA
STRONGER STORMS
Ten Category 5
cyclones in 2018
2nd highest
total on record

34. Image: istockphoto
157 million
more people exposed to heat related
health risks in 2017 than 2000
HOTTER DAYS

35. PHOTO: FLICKR/ FOREST
SERVICE, USDA
Image: Flickr/Forest Service, USDA
FIERCER FIRES
In California, a record
1.6 million acres
burned in 2018

36. Image: Flickr/Vandan Desai
LONGER DROUGHTS
In Bundelkhand, India
~2 million farmers
migrated since last year

37. HIGHER SEAS
Image: Flickr/NPS Climate Change Response
Sea-level rise from
1993-2015 nearly
3x faster
than in previous century

38. EVERY FRACTION OF A DEGREE MATTERS

39. POOREST HIT HARDEST
Image: Flickr/UNICEF Ethiopia
Power to push
100 million
people into poverty in
next 15 years

40. THERE ARE BRIGHT SPOTS…
Image: Flickr/A'Melody Lee / World Bank
Resilient tea and
coffee production
in Rwanda

41. Image: Flickr/Reg Natarajan
Making adaptation a
development priority
in Colombia

42. Image: Flickr/M. Moers
Keeping the sea
at bay at the port
of Rotterdam

43. …BUT, IT ISN’T ADDING UP
Image: Flickr/Tony Armstrong-Sly
• Global leadership scarce
• Perceived as too complicated
• Lack of metrics
• Benefits long-term and not always visible
• Insufficient finance

44. GLOBAL COMMISSION ON ADAPTATION
LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER 2018
Kristalina Georgieva Bill GatesBan Ki-moon

45. COMMISSION CONVENED BY 17 COUNTRIES

46. ACCELERATING ADAPTATION
Image: Global Commission on Adaptation/Igor Roefofsen
Three major deliverables:
• Flagship report
• Action Tracks
• Year of Action

47. WHAT TO WATCH:
MAKING THE CASE FOR ADAPTATION?
Image: Flickr/United Nations Photo
September 2019
Launch of Global Commission’s
Flagship Report

48. WHAT TO WATCH:
OVERCOMING FINANCIAL BARRIERS?
Image: Flickr/Ryan
Up to
$300 billion
needed annually
by 2030
World Bank
will direct half their
climate investments
to adaptation

49. WHAT TO WATCH:
GROWING RESILIENCE IN AGRICULTURE?
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Three-quarters of
world’s poorest
get food and income
from farming small
plots of land

50. WHAT TO WATCH:
WILL CITIES CHAMPION ADAPTATION?
Image: Flickr/Maria Eklind
October 2019
Copenhagen
C40 Mayors Summit

53. CLOTHING PRODUCTION SURGING
Image: Flickr/Francisco Anzola
• Fashion industry
worth $1.3 trillion
• Employs 300
million people

54. FASHION GETTING FASTER...
Image: Flickr/Toshihiro Gamo
• Average consumer
purchases 60% more
clothing compared to 2000
• Up to 50 “microseasons”

55. …AND LEAVING A TRAIL OF WASTE
Image: Kevin Krejci/Wikimedia Commons
• Every second, one garbage truck
of textiles is landfilled or burned
• Clothes release 500,000 tons of
microfibers in the ocean each year =
more than 50 billion plastic bottles

56. WATER STRESS AND POLLUTION

57. BAD LABOR PRACTICES
Image: ILO/Asrian Mirza
• Forced child labor in more
than 10 countries in 2018
• Half of workers in main
textile manufacturing countries
not paid minimum wage

58. CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS ON THE RISE

59. FASHION DISRUPTORS
ENTERING THE FRAY
Image: Liz Cook
• Rent the Runway
subscribers up 150%
since 2017
• $173 million invested
in The RealReal

60. FABRIC INNOVATIONS
Image: Flickr/Patrick Giblin
• Lab-grown leather
• Fruit fibers
• Recovered plastic
• Advances in recycling

61. WILL THE FASHION INDUSTRY FOLLOW THROUGH?
Image: Flickr/Nic Raingsey
WHAT TO WATCH:
• 40+ companies
signed Fashion
Industry Charter for
Climate Action
• March 2019
UN Alliance on
Sustainable Fashion

62. WILL FASHION COMPANIES IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY?
Image: ILO/Aaron Santos
WHAT TO WATCH:
Sustainable Apparel
Coalition launching beta
platform for reporting
May 2019
Science Based
Targets guidance for
apparel and footwear

63. WILL EUROPE LEAD ON SUSTAINABLE FASHION?
Image: Flickr/Lorenzoclick
WHAT TO WATCH:
Spring 2019
European circular
fashion regulations

64. HOW WILL EMERGING ECONOMIES RESPOND?
Image: Flickr/Chris Yunker
WHAT TO WATCH:
Used clothing
import ban in
East Africa

65. SUSTAINABLE FASHION: FRINGE OR THE NEXT WAVE?
Image: Flickr/Jason Hargrove
WHAT TO WATCH:

68. COMMODITY-DRIVEN DEFORESTATION AN URGENT ISSUE
Source: Global Forest Watch

69. “BIG FOUR” COMMODITIES: $260+ BILLION IN EXPORTS
Source: Forest500.org

70. HIGH COST OF COMMODITIES
Image: lyzadanger/Wikimedia Commons
Tropical forest loss:
• Nearly 50% driven by
commodity production
• 3rd largest source of
carbon emissions

71. ~500 COMPANIES COMMITTED TO
CURB DEFORESTATION
58% of major
commodities
companies have a
forest commitment

72. BUT, IMPACT IS ELUSIVE
Image: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR
• Lack of credible reporting
• Not all actors involved

73. TROPICAL TREE COVER LOSS: OUT OF CONTROL
Source: Global Forest Watch

74. LIVES AT
RISK
Image: Flickr/pato chavez
Environmental
defenders killed at a
rate of 4 per week

75. HOW WILL GOVERNMENTS RESPOND?
Image: Flickr/oneVillage Initiative
WHAT TO WATCH:
• Will EU enforce roadmap
to end deforestation?
• How will Bolsonaro’s
policies play out in Brazil?
• Will Indonesia’s progress
continue?

76. WILL COMPANIES DOUBLE DOWN
ON 2020 COMMITMENTS?
Image: Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
WHAT TO WATCH:
May 2019
Tropical Forest Alliance
Assembly in Colombia

77. WILL BETTER MONITORING PROMOTE PROGRESS?
Image: Flickr/European Space Agency
WHAT TO WATCH:
• GFW Pro Launch
• Satellite Monitoring
• Accountability Framework

78. WILL SPOTLIGHT ON BIODIVERSITY ADD PRESSURE?
Image: Flickr/European Space Agency
WHAT TO WATCH:
2020
Beijing Biodiversity COP

81. WHAT IS THE BELT AND ROAD?

82. FAR-REACHING IMPLICATIONS
Source: MERICS

83. “THE PROJECT OF THE CENTURY”
Note: There is no timeline associated with China’s commitments

84. CHINA PUSHES FOR AN
ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
Image: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
“Green Belt and Road…incorporates eco-
environment protection into all aspects
and whole process of Belt and Road”
Guidance on Promoting Green Belt and Road

85. BUT, ENERGY INVESTMENTS AREN’T
ALIGNED WITH CLIMATE GOALS
Note: Fossil Fuels include Oil, Gas, Petrochemical, and Fossil Fuel Generation

86. LAND USE CONCERNS
Image: Flickr/ Neil Turner | Source: WWF
1,739 key
biodiversity areas
in BRI route

87. WILL BELT AND ROAD FORUM PRODUCE
SUSTAINABILITY GUIDELINES?
Image: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/Wikimedia Commons
WHAT TO WATCH:

88. WILL CHINA RAMP UP RENEWABLE
ENERGY INVESTMENTS ABROAD?
Image: Flickr/Seungho L
WHAT TO WATCH:
$470+ billion
Renewable energy
investment needs by
2030 in BRI countries

89. WILL NATIONAL CLIMATE PLANS
INFORM BRI INVESTMENTS?
Image: Flickr/Moign Khawaja
WHAT TO WATCH:

92. MICROMOBILITY: TAKING OFF AROUND THE WORLD

93. A COMPELLING CHOICE
Image: Flickr/VincentJames21
60% of all trips
in U.S. are less
than 6 miles

94. SCOOTERS ACHIEVE UNICORN STATUS
Image: BIRD
Bird is fastest
startup ever to
reach $1 billion
valuation

95. BUT…

96. THIS…
Image: EvasiveMobile/WikimediaCommons

97. AND THIS…
Image: Flickr/Slices of Light

98. THE NEXT SEGWAY?
Image: Flickr/Pete Ashton

99. WILL MORE BIG COMPANIES MOVE IN?
Image: Flickr/Luis Tamayo
WHAT TO WATCH:
• Ford acquires e-scooter and bikeshare company Spin
• Uber and Lyft add scooters and bikes
• General Motors designing electric bikes for 2019

100. HOW WILL CITIES REGULATE?
WHAT TO WATCH:
• Permits and pricing
• Reduce oversaturation
• Improve safety
Image: Pixabay

101. LAUNCH OF THE
NEW URBAN MOBILITY ALLIANCE
WHAT TO WATCH:
Image: Shutterstock

102. RETHINKING CITY STREETS?
WHAT TO WATCH:
Image: Flickr/Dylan Passmore

105. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES
ENVIRONMENTAL ATTACKS
Image: Flickr/Tim Evanson
Efforts to roll back
70+ environmental
safeguards

106. CITIES, STATES & COMPANIES FORGE AHEAD

107. MIDTERMS: NEXT WAVE OF CLIMATE LEADERS
Image: Rachael Warriner/Sunrise Movement
Green New Deal
sparks debate

108. MIDTERMS: MORE MOMENTUM IN THE STATES
Image: Flickr/Tom Brewster Photography
10 new governors
with clean energy
platforms

109. 29 STATES ALREADY HAVE RENEWABLE ENERGY STANDARDS
WHAT TO WATCH:

110. 6 STATES GO FURTHER WITH 50–100% CLEAN ENERGY TARGETS
WHAT TO WATCH:

111. WILL MORE STATES ADOPT AMBITIOUS TARGETS?
WHAT TO WATCH:

112. WHAT ACTION WILL WE SEE FROM U.S. CLIMATE ALLIANCE?
WHAT TO WATCH:

113. WILL MORE UTILITIES GET AHEAD OF THE CURVE?
Image: Flickr/nmmacedo
WHAT TO WATCH:
Xcel Energy:
Carbon-free by 2050
DTE Energy, Consumers Energy:
80% carbon reduction by 2050
Will other major utilities follow suit?

114. WILL MORE STATES ADOPT CARBON PRICING?
Image: Flickr/Consumers Energy
WHAT TO WATCH:
• New Jersey to rejoin RGGI
• Virginia to cap power sector
• Oregon to adopt economy-
wide carbon price?
• Who’s next?

115. WHAT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION?
Image: Flickr/VDOT
WHAT TO WATCH:
• Transport largest source
of U.S. GHG emissions
• 9 Northeast & Mid-Atlantic
states design program to
cap and reduce transport
emissions

116. WILL ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET CONTINUE TO GROW?
WHAT TO WATCH:
Source: InsideEVs.com
US EV sales
jumped 81%
in 2018

117. WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO?
Image: Flickr/wbeem
WHAT TO WATCH:
• Support for
carbon pricing?
• Infrastructure deal?
• More funding for
clean technologies?

118. WILL GROWING CLIMATE MOVEMENT
EXPAND WHAT’S POSSIBLE?
Image: Whitehouse.gov
WHAT TO WATCH:
“The people are ahead of the Congress.
The Congress must join them.”
–Speaker Nancy Pelosi

119. WHAT ABOUT 2020 CONTENDERS?
Image: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons
WHAT TO WATCH:

123. TREATY OF VERSAILLES

124. LEAGUE OF NATIONS

125. MAHATMA GANDHI BEGINS NONVIOLENT
RESISTANCE AGAINST BRITISH RULE

126. GRAND CANYON DESIGNATED A NATIONAL PARK

127. FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC NONSTOP FLIGHT

128. FIRST POP-UP TOASTER