In my previous piece I wrote about how climate change is not an existential crisis. In this piece I used data from an excellent paper “The Science vs. the Narrative vs. the Voters: Clarifying the Public Debate Around…
The issue of climate narratives is something very much on my mind these days. Two years ago I wrote about five climate change narratives (Scientific, Skeptical, Doomsday, Opportunistic, and Moral) and three months…
…I argued that we need a new American narrative for talking about climate change. This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating a bipartisan consensus across our political divide in…
…are worried about global warming and 37% are not. At the same time, climate change is not a top priority for most Americans. According to a February 6, 2023 Report by the Pew Research Center (Pew), only 37% of Americans regard dealing…
We’re grateful that our call for a climate change reckoning elicited so many comments on LinkedIn. Most of the comments were critical and nearly all of them were constructive and raised some important points. Instead…
…2021 National Intelligence Estimate of the consequences of these changes (which then predicted we would surpass 1.5°C of warming around 2030) is thought-provoking. It found that climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to…
…letter titled “2024 Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis.” The initiative was organized by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, CDP, Ceres, the Investor Group on Climate Change, the Institutional Investors…
…(pp. 39-41), it addresses how Americans view the challenge of climate change and what must be done to address it. In this section it discusses survey findings where respondents were asked how much they would pay on top of their…
Every big enterprise needs to talk about climate change. Even in the absence of final U.S. rules requiring disclosures (if they ever happen), Deloitte found that a full 97% of the Fortune 500 mentioned some climate…
…Mr. Curtis? Two reasons. First, Mr. Curtis recognizes the reality of climate change. Given the existential nature of this issue, my calculus is a simple one. While I don’t agree with Mr. Curtis on most things, his leadership on climate…
…He’s been studying how human and natural influences contribute to climate change since the early 1990s, served on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its 3rd, 4th and 5th Assessments, and was a Coordinating Lead…
In October of 2021 The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) published “Fiduciary Duties and Climate Change in the United States” by Sarah Barker, Cynthia Williams, and Alex Cooper. CCLI is a UK-based NGO…
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