The Global Cooling Prize is an innovation competition focused on developing climate-friendly residential cooling solutions. Its aim is to provide global access to cooling without contributing to planetary warming.

Learn more: www.globalcoolingprize.org

Millennials are projected to form 75% of the global workforce by 2025, with Gen Z making up 40% of global consumers by 2020. These influential generations prioritize products that align with their values and seek jobs with purpose.

Discover how to effectively engage these future leaders. Join us at BSR18: http://bit.ly/2NQKwLE

Mishka, a 17-year-old from Utah, co-founded Utah Youth Environmental Solutions and helped craft the Utah Climate Resolution—the first of its kind in a traditionally conservative state. She also organized the 2016 Utah People’s Climate March.

Her work focuses on empowering youth to hold statewide organizations accountable for climate change and building Utah's youth climate movement. As a Pakistani Muslim American, Mishka also strives to build bridges and empower Muslim youth and students of color in the state.

Rose, a 17-year-old Indigenous organizer from the Isanti Dakota and Ho-Chunk Nations, actively opposes the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota. This proposed pipeline threatens Indigenous territories and the way of life for the Anishinaabe and Dakota people.

Rose speaks publicly at schools and organizes local events to raise awareness about the pipeline's dangers. She is also a Youth Climate intervenor, one of 13 who gained legal status in the Line 3 permitting process. Her activism extends beyond Minnesota, notably including the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

Stephen, 22, from Pennsylvania, is co-founder and National Field Director of Sunrise Movement. This organization mobilizes young people nationwide to combat the influence of fossil fuel executives and lobbyists, empowering them to elect leaders who will address climate change and create green jobs.

He organized the 'Sunrise Semester,' a fellowship program that engaged 70 young people in five key states for the 2018 elections. This initiative combined campaigning for progressive candidates with direct action to expose fossil fuel money. Stephen's organizing journey began at Swarthmore College, where he led a widely publicized fossil fuel divestment campaign.

Jade, an 18-year-old from North Carolina, is actively combating Colony Collapse Disorder and promoting bee conservation. Through her Pollinator Initiative, she establishes apiaries and pollinator parks in local schools, aiming to replicate her successful high school model across the area.

She has secured grant funding and organized students to become certified beekeepers with local support. Since April 2017, bees introduced to the White Oak area have been maintained pesticide-free. Jade's efforts highlight the importance of honey bees in the ecosystem and educate students about declining bee populations and beekeepers.

Tina, a 21-year-old from New Brunswick, is a prominent student climate activist. She organizes a nationally recognized fossil fuel divestment campaign at Mount Allison University and serves on the steering committee for RISE 2019, a national climate convergence focused on training young people in direct action and anti-oppressive organizing.

Recognized as one of Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 by Starfish Canada, Tina also acts as interim Coordinator for the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD). She previously represented CYD at UN climate change negotiations (COP 22 and COP 23), advocating for Canadian government accountability on climate justice and the Paris Agreement.

Valeree, a UCLA senior, co-founded the Environmentalists of Color Collective (EOCC) to challenge mainstream environmentalism and amplify the voices of communities of color. She is dedicated to fostering dialogues on environmental justice and racism, notably co-organizing a Climate Justice Forum that launched EOCC's work.

As a Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow for the University of California, Valeree engages students in the UC system's goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. She aims to integrate sustainability and environmental justice values into corporate systems.

An innovative project is establishing vital connections among government, police, and communities in remote areas of the Solomon Islands.

This initiative aims to strengthen relationships and improve collaboration in isolated regions.

For more information on this project, visit: www.worldbank.org/JusticeSI

Reginald serves as a Village Peace Warden in Makira Province, Solomon Islands, providing a vital first line of contact between his community and the police.

This role is part of an innovative government program, supported by the World Bank and the Australian government, aimed at enhancing local justice and security.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/JusticeSI

Jennifer addresses community issues and supports justice on remote Bellona Island in the Solomon Islands, working closely with chiefs and elders.

For more information on justice initiatives in the Solomon Islands, visit: World Bank: JusticeSI

Tracie Keesee, cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity and a 25-year police veteran, emphasizes that public safety is interconnected. She addresses challenges faced by police and communities, particularly African American neighborhoods, highlighting opportunities to ensure dignity and justice. Keesee urges, "We must move forward together. There's no more us versus them."

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Companies must increase their support for women and actively address the #MeToo movement. This requires them to step up, speak out, and implement concrete actions to foster safer, more equitable workplaces.

For further insights and examples on corporate engagement, learn more at BSR18.

Marine biologist Patricia Majluf initially focused on studying seals. Following a massive seal die-off, her research expanded to explore the intricate links between seals, fish, and the climate.

Majluf now explains the critical need for changes in Peru's fisheries management. She emphasizes adapting to ever-fiercer and increasingly unpredictable weather and ocean conditions.

Claudiu Murgan's latest science fiction novel, *Water Entanglement*, explores water as a living, angry force. Set in 2055, limnologist Cherry Mortinger (Hayyin) leads a revolution against corporations abusing the earth's water, aiming to prove its memory and overwhelming rage.

Murgan, a Romanian-born Canadian author, crafts an imaginative tale that brings awareness to the very real water crisis. Fifty percent of royalties from *Water Entanglement* will benefit Project Aware: www.projectaware.org.

The Achuar people have defended their ancestral rainforest home in the northern Peruvian Amazon for millennia. They continue to resist threats from oil companies, vowing to protect their land and culture and keep Amazon crude in the ground.

Support the Achuar's vital work. Take action by visiting amazonwatch.org/geopark.

Credits: Production by Vagabond Films; Images by Charles Gay and Pablo Tourrenc; Editing by Charles Gay.

Protecting sharks is crucial in the fight against climate change.

The international fin trade impacts up to 73 million sharks annually. You can help end this by adding your name to support a #FinBanNow.

Take action now: Support a #FinBanNow.

"A girl is worth nothing. That is what I was told for 17 years of my life. It was hard for me to accept, and even harder for me to ignore." These powerful words from Lesly Goh, Chief Technology Officer of the World Bank, introduce how technology transformed her life and career path.

Previously the Financial Services Industry Lead for Microsoft Asia Pacific, Lesly is recognized as a leader in FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain. She champions these technologies as a new frontier for disrupting traditional business models in financial services. Her insights were shared at a TEDx event. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx.