Climate Change and Sustainability, Democracy Law and Human Rights Steven M. Rothstein and Veena Ramani Climate Change and Sustainability, Democracy Law and Human Rights Steven M. Rothstein and Veena Ramani

It’s Our Financial Regulators’ Job To Protect Us From Climate Change. It’s Our Legislators’ Job To Make Them!

As climate-induced wildfires and hurricanes ravage America, our lives, our livelihoods, and the stability and security of our financial markets are in danger. Steven Rothstein and Veena Ramani, from Ceres, discuss how climate change is a systemic risk and we need our elected representatives to use their power to hold regulators to account for immediate climate change action.

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Democracy Law and Human Rights Miles Rapoport Democracy Law and Human Rights Miles Rapoport

Making a Case for Universal Civic Duty Voting

Miles Rapoport discusses how it's important to remember that our election system has two critical and longstanding problems that are barriers to achieving full and inclusive representation: consistently low voter participation and an electorate still deeply unreflective of our country’s increasingly diverse population. The solution is straightforward - make voting a universal civic duty.

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