Sustainability Magazine has an interesting piece on Paul Simpson, Partner at ERM, who started the Carbon Disclosure Project. He, like me, is an advocate for robust climate transition planning.
There was only so long that most investors could place the climate crisis at arm’s length (citizens, too!). But since climate change commands the elements with increasing force and speed, it is impacting everything of value. So it’s essential that organizations from city, county, and state governments, universities and hospital systems, as well as businesses small and large, to investigate and evaluate their current and pending climate threats. They should lean into their responsibilities to the web of life, to dignity, and support right livelihood.
Investors, citizens, and taxpayers want these actions and insurers and re-insurers are raising rates. So So knowing where your climate risks and mitigation potential lie, planning to manage them, and implementing those plans shows responsiveness to conditions affecting your business and the world. For local and state governments in the United States, it provides confidence to citizens that you are taking public opinion seriously and facing an increasingly disruptive and disrupted world with a sober and steady mind. In all cases, it is owning who you are, where you are, right now, and charting a course that others can follow. It’s climate leadership.
None of this is magic. It’s simply sober thinking: acceptance, prioritization, and walking the path. Done right, it will draw down emissions and lead to more just and sustainable futures.
Peter Walks for Democracy 
Peter, there is an NVEC meeting tonight and I would like to announce to everybody there that all of the 10 participants in our solar power purchase agreement have signed the contracts. But I need to know for sure whether that is true. The Internet says so. But you are the one who knows. Could you be kind enough to let me know before 7:00 PM tonight, if I can safely announce this? And thank you very much for your climate leadership and I’m trying, in whatever modest ways I can, to follow your example, God bless you. And as Al Anon says, we need to have the vision to know the difference. between what we can do and what we must just accept because it’s outside of the purview of our power. Let us strive to be faithful to that approach to the problems we need to solve. And let us all say, AMEN. “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justice now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.” The Talmud
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