Don’t want to pay attention to climate change? That’s going to cost you. Their joint project on the economic risks of climate change is a bold attempt to galvanize business people and investors. Don’t want to pay attention to climate change? That’s going to cost you. This, broadly speaking, is the message of an ambitious report released today, aimed squarely at business leaders and investors. Titled Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States, the nonpartisan report is an effort by three financial heavyweights—Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer—to change the conversation about climate change in the U.S. “This is the first attempt to measure the economic costs and risks of climate change across a range of geographies and business sectors, and do it with some granularity,” Paulson tells Fortune. “We don’t think that business leaders and investors are giving climate change the level of attention it deserves, given the risks we face.” To put it another way, in the era of anthropogenic climate change, everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody talks about it.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:32:06 +0000
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