From left, climate change panelists including Joe Casola, Clinton Moloney, and Spencer Reeder discuss climate change’s impact on the Pacific Northwest economy for the latest LiveWire event on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
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From left, climate change panelists including Joe Casola, Clinton Moloney, and Spencer Reeder discuss climate change’s impact on the Pacific Northwest economy for the latest LiveWire event on Tuesday, May 17, 2016.

If our region is to meet the challenge of global climate change, citizens and leaders will quickly need to tackle a sweeping range of solutions—and work together—or face putting industries at risk.

That’s the message from a packed forum Tuesday night at University of Washington’s Kane Hall. The discussion was held to examine ways to mitigate the harm of climate change on the region’s economy and industries.

Five local and national experts, including Joe Casola, Deputy Director of UW’s Climate Impacts Group, offered long-term solutions to help the region deal with impending ecological issues on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, as part of The Seattle Times’ LiveWire series, an initiative hosted by the newspaper to bring together experts to discuss vital issues affecting the region.

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