Evaluating and Enhancing Corporate Climate Action, with Mark Tercek

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, midnight

This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Mark Tercek, longtime investment banker at Goldman Sachs, a former CEO of The Nature Conservancy, and a current member of the President's Council at Resources for the Future (RFF). Tercek talks about his current work advising private companies on how to take more ambitious steps to address environmental problems\u2014particularly climate change. He and Raimi discuss some examples of what companies are doing, why they\u2019re doing it, and how a skeptical public can evaluate the veracity of corporate climate commitments.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n"The Instigator" newsletter by Mark Tercek; https://marktercek.substack.com/\n\n"Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire" by Rebecca M. Henderson; https://reimaginingcapitalism.org/\n\n"Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation" by John Carlin; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530626/playing-the-enemy-by-john-carlin/\n\nAmy Harder's interview with Bernard Looney via Axios on HBO; https://www.axios.com/bp-ceo-climate-reinvention-axios-on-hbo-624c3a9c-9ad4-4fb1-9b38-552c558a3544.html