During this featured break, you can watch the following Mini-Sessions:

1. Climate Change is our Reality. Here's How We're Taking Action
   • Speakers: Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, nana Firman, Ximena Loria and Tim Guinee
   • Thanks to TED Countdown for allowing us to share this important content from their 2020 Countdown event. With the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore is helping mold future leaders to build the movement for climate survival and social justice from the ground up. He introduces us to four of the Project's graduates, each of whom confronts climate change on their own terms: Ximena Loría, founder of Misión 2 Grados, an NGO influencing public policy in Central America; Nana Firman, "daughter of the rainforest" and advocate for climate justice among Indigenous peoples; Gloria Kasang Bulus, a Nigerian activist for women and education; and Tim Guinee, a first responder and climate change fighter in upstate New York. Together, they're gathering local actors into a global, grassroots movement that aims to turn the climate fight around.
      
2. 5 Things You Need to Know to be Net Zero Ready
   • Speaker: Emma Hughes, U.S. Green Building Council
   • What happens when we take lessening the impact of buildings on the environment to the next level? For more than two decades, LEED has provided a framework for high performance buildings and spaces, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions through strategies impacting land, energy, transportation, water, waste and materials. Building on that work, USGBC has developed LEED Zero, a complement to LEED that verifies the achievement of net zero goals in existing buildings. This mini session will leave you with five key things to know to be net zero ready!