What we’re reading: September
We Mean Business coalition
The We Mean Business coalition partners celebrated leading businesses taking action on climate this month at Climate Week NYC, along with many key milestones in the low-carbon transition.
As we look ahead to COP23 in November and consider how the US delegation is going to push for action, despite the administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, here are three perspectives on the climate debate in America:
US climate change policy: Made in California
A peculiar confluence of history, legal precedent and defiance has set the stage for a regulatory mutiny in California that would reverberate throughout the country, reports the New York Times.
GM: Our vision for moving humanity forward
A growing population, a widespread shift to renewables and shifting consumer attitudes on vehicle ownership is why General Motors Chairman and CEO, Mary Barra, believes the auto industry is changing more today than it has in the past 50 years.
Below 2°C and regulatory risk for US coal power owners
The latest report from Carbon Tracker aims to provide a tool for investors who have exposure to US coal power, to help make their portfolio compliant with the Paris Agreement in an economically rational way.