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DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN

DiPerna, Back At Vatican:

 World Working Together On

Climate Without U.S.

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN - Back in Vatican City, Cooperstown’s Paula DiPerna looked around the Sala Regia Friday, March 8. There was a turbaned Sikh. There was Muslim. There was a shaman from the far reaches of Greenland.
“All these different societies have a need to protect nature,” said DiPerna, special adviser, CDP North America, a non-profit that helps companies, cities and nations manage their environmental impacts. “There’s ice melting in Greenland, deforestation in Ghana – all have seen and are living the problems of Climate Change.”

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