"In 2009, donor countries committed $100 billion a year by 2020 for climate mitigation in developing countries. In 2022, this commitment remained unfulfilled and the OECD estimates that it will take until the end of 2023 to get to the first $100 billion. While this allocation for mitigation is a start, the more urgent investment commitment adaptation and resilience approaches for emerging markets." - Heather McGeory, Global Lead, Climate and Sustainability
"More than $9.3 billion is expected to be spent on 2022 federal midterms, according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit research group that tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. This figure would smash the previous record of $7.1 billion set in the 2018 midterms."
"While voting and overall participation is a collective action, the ‘why’ of how we participate is personal—as is why some don’t participate. But the why and how of participation is as different as we are, and over the last couple of years the joy of participation has been underscored with an urgency to do so."
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