Welcome to Climate One, Changing the Conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

I'm Devon Strolovich. Climate One Conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.

Today's special episode was recorded earlier this week as a kickoff to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

Greg welcomed a powerhouse panel to ask how cities, states, and companies can bypass federal

inaction to advance climate solutions.

We need to get together, figure out how you address and drive solutions to climate that

actually end up in not just a cleaner and healthier and more sustainable world, but one

that's more just.

Gina McCarthy is Director of the Center for Climate, Health,

and the Global Environment at Harvard University's

T.H. Chan School of Public Health,

and former administrator of the US EPA under President Obama.

For McCarthy, a cleaner, healthier world

enables individuals to work for change.

The most important thing an individual can do at this point is be a little bit less of an individual.

Bill McKibben is founder of 350.org and one of the nation's leading climate activists and authors.

He argues that larger movements are key to changing the climate status quo.

The next Bill McKibbin or Gina McCarthy might be sitting in front of Cool Effect right now,

donating 10 bucks and we'll see where that goes.

Marissa DiBoloi is executive director of the Overlook International Foundation and CEO of Cool

Effect, which helps people band together to reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.

I don't think there's any way that this gets solved without the voice of the American

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