Letters to The Boss: Help Fix Our Climate

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 4:02 p.m.

b"Climate change has become a major risk factor for corporations. With groups like the Carbon Disclosure Project grading companies on their carbon footprint, employees, consumers and investors are taking note -- and woe to those CEOs who are slow to pick up the ball.\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re gonna start to see some efforts where silence is complacency and it\\u2019s no longer acceptable,\\u201d says Joel Makower of Greenbiz. \\u201cYou\\u2019re gonna have to get off the sidelines, to use the football metaphor, and get into the game one way or the other. And companies that aren\\u2019t, I think, are gonna find themselves facing some new pressures.\\u201d\\n\\nVisit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode.\\n\\nGuests:\\nSarah Read, User Experience Researcher for Prime Video, Amazon; Amazon Employees for Climate Justice Member\\nJacob Adamson, Software Development Engineer, Amazon; Amazon Employees for Climate Justice Member\\nJoel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group\\nAndrew Winston, Author, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build a Competitive Advantage (Yale University Press, 2006)\\nSara Law, Head of Global Initiatives, Carbon Disclosure Project\\nSwami Venkataraman, Senior VP and Manager, ESG Analytics and Integration at Moody's Investors Service\\n\\nPortions of this program were recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"