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Advancing Locally-Led Climate Solutions: Connecting Climate Response to Economies in Rural America EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2022, RuralOrganizing.org Education Fund interviewed 25 rural climate leaders and reviewed materials from over 150 organizations with locally-led rural climate agendas, along with hundreds of policy documents, international agreements, and legislative texts. The resulting landscape summary points to a suite of local solution innovators who are going it alone and a policy ecosystem with conflicts and glaring gaps.  We found robust locally-led innovation happening around the country, from community planning support to transition a rural economy from...