Bernis Cunningham On The State of Nicaragua, Climate Change, & Implementing Change

"The only ones who know local solutions are the local people and the climate change problems are local problems."

Bernis Cunningham is the Director of Planting Change Foundation. He is an active lawyer in Nicaragua and studied Environmental Sustainable Management at UC Berkeley. Bernis is a climate change policy adviser in the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and member of international networks such as Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide and Climate Action Network Latin America.  He collaborates with various international NGOs, government delegations, students, teachers, and frontline communities from different parts of the world to develop national and international projects of environmental conservation and human sustainable development, especially on organic agriculture, water management, climate change, and education.

The key topics in today's episode:
- The current condition of Nicaragua
- Having a poor mentality
- Educating rural farmers
- Nicaragua and the Paris Agreement
- Renewable Energy
- Green Washing
- The bad side of renewable energy
- Hydro Energy
- Helping Latin America
- Creating local solutions
- Designing a new governmental system
- Non state solutions
- Teaching children about climate change

Video Version: https://youtu.be/gyBvsM0EBno

Connect with Bernis:
Website | https://www.plantingchangefoundation.org/
Bernis' Piece On The Paris Agreement | https://iep.berkeley.edu/content/paris-agreement-dream
LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernis-cunningham-6ab90b126/?originalSubdomain=ni
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/plantingchange19/
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