The New School’s Tishman Environment & Design Center hosted a powerful conversation on Monday evening of Climate Week among five journalists who cover the climate crisis. Co-sponsored by The New Republic, Emily Atkin, The New Republic Climate Contributor and founder/author of the newly launched climate newsletter Heated, moderated a lively discussion about

Two profoundly important movements are growing and converging. The first is the global uprising against the status quo of our rapidly deteriorating climate. The second is a corporate uprising of sorts where company CEOs are being asked to break the sacred code of capitalism:  “maximizing shareholder value.” 

All these leaders – and many, many more – have participated in events organized by the United Nations and private sector sponsors to fight deforestation. Many gathered in 2012 in Rio for the United Nation’s Rio + 20 conference on Sustainable Development, or the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development or the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

It was the 1970’s version of being woke: Earth Day April 22, 1970. It was a day when the world finally recognized the biggest victim of the unprecedented prosperity of the industrial revolution: our earth. 

In No Place to Hide, Cornerstone warns that asset managers cannot simply avoid climate risks by moving out of vulnerable asset classes.