<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. A proposed Global Deal for Nature would set various degrees of protection for 30% of the earth’s surface by 2030 and put further restrictions on another 20%. The effect would be to sequester
enough carbon to make it more possible to keep warming to 1.5C, and to preserve biodiversity, avoiding some severe and even permanent damage to ecosystems.
</span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042019/global-deal-nature-climate-change-wildlife-biodiversity-targets-tundra-forest-soil-carbon-sequestration-study" id="LPlnk865935" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042019/global-deal-nature-climate-change-wildlife-biodiversity-targets-tundra-forest-soil-carbon-sequestration-study</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div id="LPBorder_GT_15570627956620.23994388784856602" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 100%; text-indent: 0px;">
<table id="LPContainer_15570627956590.1403779608457676" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200);">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;">
<td id="ImageCell_15570627956600.1513648401429546" colspan="1" style="width: 250px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px;">
<div id="LPImageContainer_15570627956600.4451115674505781" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 166px; position: relative; margin: auto; display: table; width: 250px;">
<a id="LPImageAnchor_15570627956600.11073485532728955" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042019/global-deal-nature-climate-change-wildlife-biodiversity-targets-tundra-forest-soil-carbon-sequestration-study" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img id="LPThumbnailImageID_15570627956610.04470901510274228" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px; height: 166px; width: 250px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="250" height="166" src="https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/opengraph_large/public/article_images/caribou-denali-900_dave-walsh-vw-pics-uig-via-getty.jpg?itok=RalXcvX7"></a></div>
</td>
<td id="TextCell_15570627956610.22326102016947091" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; padding: 0px; display: table-cell;">
<div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15570627956610.5720008165718791"></div>
<div id="LPTitle_15570627956610.5316205189175978" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(68, 70, 72); font-weight: 400; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">
<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15570627956610.44660799584021604" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19042019/global-deal-nature-climate-change-wildlife-biodiversity-targets-tundra-forest-soil-carbon-sequestration-study" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Saving
Ecosystems to Protect the Climate, and Vice Versa: a Global Deal for Nature | InsideClimate News</a></div>
<div id="LPMetadata_15570627956610.7835078476331019" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">
insideclimatenews.org</div>
<div id="LPDescription_15570627956610.7594094838421701" style="display: block; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">
A new study explores how to prevent a sixth great extinction and stop climate change at the same time. Forests, tundra and other ecosystems play critical roles. For years, experts in conservation ...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. A UN report to be released Monday warns that current threats to biodiversity endanger our supply of food and water. Up to a million species are facing extinction. “We should be hopeful
that we have a window of opportunity to do something about it over these two years.” A world conference at the end of 2020 will set new biodiversity goals.
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn" id="LPlnk782688" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div id="LPBorder_GT_15570627956670.4819320637079272" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 100%; text-indent: 0px;">
<table id="LPContainer_15570627956660.15186617984104078" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200);">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;">
<td id="ImageCell_15570627956660.8018061922910229" colspan="1" style="width: 250px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px;">
<div id="LPImageContainer_15570627956660.7429699104116829" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 131px; position: relative; margin: auto; display: table; width: 250px;">
<a id="LPImageAnchor_15570627956660.027188355811663234" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img id="LPThumbnailImageID_15570627956660.4361777116712171" width="250" height="131" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px; height: 131px; width: 250px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d1b3dba971caede1f885bb441cefe255606ce3da/147_0_4311_2586/master/4311.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&s=ccca246e97a36fe373955c0fdd7bd9c0"></a></div>
</td>
<td id="TextCell_15570627956660.11106854174124048" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; padding: 0px; display: table-cell;">
<div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15570627956660.6696047599773824"></div>
<div id="LPTitle_15570627956660.8357258303871062" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(68, 70, 72); font-weight: 400; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">
<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15570627956670.2979160784108388" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Biodiversity crisis is about to
put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn | Environment | The Guardian</a></div>
<div id="LPMetadata_15570627956670.16076525327252278" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">
www.theguardian.com</div>
<div id="LPDescription_15570627956670.46964062626966196" style="display: block; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">
Students protest in Adelaide. UN experts warned people alive today are at risk unless urgent action is taken. Photograph: Kelly Barnes/EPA The world’s leading scientists will warn the planet’s ...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. As Governor of Washington, Jaye Inslee achieved in passing an ambitious climate action program this year. As presidential candidate, he is proposing the most detailed general program yet
for national action. </span><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/inslee-climate-change-plan-beto-2020-95434dc28faf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters" id="LPlnk441794" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://thinkprogress.org/inslee-climate-change-plan-beto-2020-95434dc28faf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div id="LPBorder_GT_15570627955810.2901450516118833" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 100%; text-indent: 0px;">
<table id="LPContainer_15570627955750.4683565863547723" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200);">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;">
<td id="ImageCell_15570627955770.3526577189197193" colspan="1" style="width: 250px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px;">
<div id="LPImageContainer_15570627955770.2613903802332318" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 19px; position: relative; margin: auto; display: table; width: 250px;">
<a id="LPImageAnchor_15570627955780.2995177898565269" href="https://thinkprogress.org/inslee-climate-change-plan-beto-2020-95434dc28faf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img id="LPThumbnailImageID_15570627955780.6179451423066125" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px; height: 18px; width: 250px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="250" height="18" src="https://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-1134470792.jpg?w=1920&h=140&crop=1"></a></div>
</td>
<td id="TextCell_15570627955790.517541568204978" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; padding: 0px; display: table-cell;">
<div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15570627955790.6468267142088275"></div>
<div id="LPTitle_15570627955790.3200313374517798" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(68, 70, 72); font-weight: 400; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">
<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15570627955800.8002691532710156" href="https://thinkprogress.org/inslee-climate-change-plan-beto-2020-95434dc28faf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-letters" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Inslee rolls
out sweeping climate plan in 2020 campaign</a></div>
<div id="LPMetadata_15570627955800.9061153506709216" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">
thinkprogress.org</div>
<div id="LPDescription_15570627955800.776821665229749" style="display: block; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">
Climate candidate Inslee rolls out sweeping proposal for tackling global warming Inslee's plan is likely to push the metrics offered by other candidates as climate change becomes a hot-button ...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. Inslee’s proposed climate program is the first part of a comprehensive plan which includes ending subsidies for fossil fuels, restoring our role in the Paris accord, and attacking such
peripheral but potent greenhouse gasses as the hydrofluorocarbons. </span><a href="https://grist.org/article/a-tale-of-two-washingtons-how-jay-inslee-aims-to-take-his-climate-plan-nationwide/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" id="LPlnk911646" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://grist.org/article/a-tale-of-two-washingtons-how-jay-inslee-aims-to-take-his-climate-plan-nationwide/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div id="LPBorder_GT_15570628258670.8926078084799896" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 100%; text-indent: 0px;">
<table id="LPContainer_15570628258650.23651573582681618" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200);">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;">
<td id="ImageCell_15570628258650.30780839128818815" colspan="1" style="width: 250px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px;">
<div id="LPImageContainer_15570628258650.13604740080511024" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 29px; position: relative; margin: auto; display: table; width: 250px;">
<a id="LPImageAnchor_15570628258660.6120822358240801" href="https://grist.org/article/a-tale-of-two-washingtons-how-jay-inslee-aims-to-take-his-climate-plan-nationwide/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img id="LPThumbnailImageID_15570628258660.19932383922394536" width="250" height="29" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px; height: 29px; width: 250px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; user-select: none;" src="https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/inslee-climate-plan-1.jpg?w=1200&h=140&crop=1"></a></div>
</td>
<td id="TextCell_15570628258660.46014438312677863" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; padding: 0px; display: table-cell;">
<div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15570628258660.8477857856827946"></div>
<div id="LPTitle_15570628258660.5928856988746207" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(68, 70, 72); font-weight: 400; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">
<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15570628258660.8837841229578178" href="https://grist.org/article/a-tale-of-two-washingtons-how-jay-inslee-aims-to-take-his-climate-plan-nationwide/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">A
tale of two Washingtons: How Jay Inslee aims to take his climate plan nationwide | Grist</a></div>
<div id="LPMetadata_15570628258660.8370468186631099" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">
grist.org</div>
<div id="LPDescription_15570628258660.1953201324058993" style="display: block; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">
On a recent spring evening in Seattle, a crowd of nearly 1,000 gathered for a glimpse at one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars. When Washington Governor Jay Inslee bounded on stage, the ...</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">If you notice Inslee being a little testy on the topic of the Green New Deal, it is because his proposal in its specificity goes far beyond the general goals of the Green New Deal while it
serves them. Inslee is anxious that his proposal not be equated to the Green New Deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. The PBS series Sinking Cities ran last fall. In one-hour installments it profiled the flooding faced by New York, London, Tokyo, and Miami. The most at-risk is Miami. New York wins the
prize for the most outrageous protection project, a twenty-foot wall called The Big U around the southern part of Manhattan. Thanks to Mary Emerson-Smith for the link.
</span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/sinking-cities-miami-bcdxzj/" id="LPlnk331569" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.pbs.org/video/sinking-cities-miami-bcdxzj/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div id="LPBorder_BVTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGJzLm9yZy92aWRlby9zaW5raW5nLWNpdGllcy1taWFtaS1iY2R4emov_15570628257480.9840969556277424" style="margin-bottom: 20px; overflow: auto; width: 100%; text-indent: 0px;">
<table id="LPContainer_15570628257460.9661322569599993" role="presentation" cellspacing="0" style="width: 90%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(200, 200, 200);">
<tbody>
<tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;">
<td id="ImageCell_15570628257460.9527802917454506" colspan="1" style="width: 250px; position: relative; display: table-cell; padding-right: 20px;">
<div id="LPImageContainer_15570628257460.46385126654774766" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 131px; position: relative; margin: auto; display: table; width: 250px;">
<a id="LPImageAnchor_15570628257460.7046659221871532" href="https://www.pbs.org/video/sinking-cities-miami-bcdxzj/" target="_blank" style="display: table-cell; text-align: center;"><img id="LPThumbnailImageID_15570628257470.5572896637395166" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 250px; max-height: 250px; height: 131px; width: 250px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="250" height="131" src="https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.OVKmB5wLIuygg9NzjLEK5wHgD8&pid=Api"></a></div>
</td>
<td id="TextCell_15570628257470.7616945498429293" colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; position: relative; padding: 0px; display: table-cell;">
<div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_15570628257470.18320076293270082"></div>
<div id="LPTitle_15570628257470.4674247036182637" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(68, 70, 72); font-weight: 400; font-size: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">
<a id="LPUrlAnchor_15570628257470.7416876426724066" href="https://www.pbs.org/video/sinking-cities-miami-bcdxzj/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Sinking Cities: Miami</a></div>
<div id="LPMetadata_15570628257470.9002636875990482" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">
www.pbs.org</div>
<div id="LPDescription_15570628257480.5228813730413133" style="display: block; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; max-height: 100px; overflow: hidden;">
Miami is beloved for its beaches and waterfront homes and businesses. See how engineers and planners are trying to protect Miami from rising seas and ever-more-frequent and violent storm surges that could destroy the city’s tourist and business economy.</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">Jacksonville, FL’s PBS station WJCT is holding a discussion of the series on June 4.
<a href="https://www.wjct.org/events/sinkingcities/?fbclid=IwAR1zxYy9ID8HOF1ffX3S48fwFAa2Ktqgdnu58gGrokpsbI1JxF6rVdIcq-E" id="LPlnk390955" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
https://www.wjct.org/events/sinkingcities/?fbclid=IwAR1zxYy9ID8HOF1ffX3S48fwFAa2Ktqgdnu58gGrokpsbI1JxF6rVdIcq-E</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<br>
<p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>