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Why Climate Policy Is Macro Policy

The impacts of climate change on our planet’s finely tuned ecosystems are escalating. Extreme climatic events are multiplying, sea levels are rising, and polar ice loss is accelerating. What had been biblical is now commonplace. Whether...
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Mark Carney

Vice Chair and Head of Transition Investing, Brookfield
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Capital Deployment: The Four Things We Need to Do This Decade to Get Climate Right

The first few weeks of November 2021 have been (hopefully) consequential for the future of climate change. COP26 brought a flurry of pledges and commitments. More than $130 trillion in financial assets have been pledged to align with the...
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Dan Carol

Managing Director, Milken Institute Finance
Dan Carol is a managing director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.

Young People Are Crucial to Green Recovery Plans

COVID was a storm that the entire world weathered, but no two individuals experienced the storm in the same boat. Although the virus did not respect national borders, spreading like wildfire across the globe, there were factors like...
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Gianfranco Casati

Chief Executive, Accenture Growth Markets (Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, South Africa)
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ESG: Building a Meaningful and Sustainable Future

Over 100 years ago, the father of American literature, Mark Twain, could not have imagined how enduring and relevant his words would be to future generations when he said: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things...
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Andrew Steel

Managing Director, Global Group Head, Sustainable Finance, Fitch Ratings
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ESG and Securing a Sustainable Future

No matter where we stand on the political spectrum, most of us will agree that the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the characteristics common to all crises, lasting longer and hurting more deeply than we ever imagined, while exposing...
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Doug Sieg

CEO, Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC
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