Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes.

Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.

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Here's your host, Karina Belize.

Welcome to Caramore Be Better, a podcast that explores the people, policies, and practices,

shaping a more regenerative future for people, planet, and the next generation.

In last week's solo cast, we stood at what I called a global

crossroads, a moment where climate policy winds and rollbacks were happening at the same time,

and in this case, across different parts of the world. We looked at progress and renewable energy,

warnings from the United Nations about interconnected

planetary crises, and also some troubling retreats from climate commitments.

Today, I want to focus on something a little more zoomed out, because when you step back

from individual headlines, something else becomes clear.

The world is simply not moving together.

Instead of convergence around a shared climate response, we're seeing divergence,

nations making fundamentally different choices about energy, land, technology, and responsibility. Some are accelerating climate

action, some are stalling, and some are retreating. And others yet are experimenting with new,

often quieter models of leadership. So today's solo cast is about why. Why is that divergence happening?

And what it reveals about the kind of leadership this moment actually calls for. So let's start out by

talking about the illusion of a unified global response, because that's exactly what it is. It's an illusion. For years,

climate change has been framed as a global problem that requires a global solution. And while

that's true in principle, it is never meant that countries would respond in the same way or even

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