06 December 2016
By Jocelyn Timperley
A group of financial heavyweights, (click here) including media magnate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Wall Street banker and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, has today urged businesses and governments across the world put in place actionable plans to incorporate climate risk into their decision-making.
The new report from the bi-partisan Risky Business Project, which aims to provide a business-focused assessment of the economic risks and opportunities related to climate change, argues tackling climate change is both economically and technically achievable and would create significant new opportunities for American business.
The Risky Business Project is co-chaired by Bloomberg, Paulson, and billionaire investor and environmental donor Thomas Steyer....
I would encourage Mr. Steyer to invite the former Vice President Al Gore to join the group.
...The group also details how the required investment in clean energy would more than pay for itself in the long run, yielding a predicted average of $366bn in savings a year from reductions in spending on fossil fuels....
It is obvious to most people working to invoke change to reverse the trend of the Climate Crisis that it is a very expensive path to allow this level of heat in Earth's troposphere. The investment in to alternative energies and conservation strategies will more than pay for themselves in only a few years. The lives that will be saved alone when Earth achieves a normal balance with the help of such investments is worth the effort.
The scientists in the world, including those of the IPCC, know how to restore this planet to it's lush state that will return a troposphere of live and protection for generations to enjoy it.
We are living on a garden of beauty if only appreciated as the very common home we all share.
Sometimes there are heroes waiting in the wings that come forward because the status of their dreams become mainstream. Sometimes it is a simple as that. I look forward to the successful outcomes and with Vice President Al Gore as an observer and adviser the results will be insured.
