Green Matters – November 2, 2020

Calls to Action: Solutions require new thinking.

• It’s time to end slash-and-burn capitalism (hbr)

• The US financial system needs to prepare for climate disruption (fastcompany)

• Connecting the dots: the intersection of economic equality, racial justice and sustainable investing (ccm)

• If we want to get past “woke capitalism,” this is what it’ll take to get companies to an equitable relationship with both workers and society (fastcompany)

Trends: History is seasonal. 

• Wall Street will soon have to take millennial investors seriously (economist)

• Between 14-23 million Americans plan to relocate now that they can work from home (npr)

• New data shows climate risk is rising among executives’ biggest concerns (greenbiz)

• Men are taking environmental concerns more seriously as a result of COVID (sustainablebrands)

Social Justice, Diversity & Ethics: No more tradeoffs. 

• Yale endowment chief puts money managers on notice about diversity for its $31 billion endowment (wsj)

• From “woke washing” to true corporate social justice (hbr)

• Discrimination cost US economy $16 trillion over past 20 years (npr)

• A tale of two Americas: How the pandemic is widening the financial health gap (fortune)

Carbon, Climate & the Environment: The not-so-silent crisis.

• New massive coral reef just discovered in Australia (cnn)

• Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (carbonbrief) 

• The Amazon rainforest is near a survival tipping point (fastcompany)

• ‘Sky mining’ facility creates carbon-negative diamonds (eandt)