The U.S. economy faces significant risks from unabated climate change. Every year of inaction serves to broaden and deepen those risks. Founded by co-chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Thomas F. Steyer, the Risky Business Project examined the economic risks presented by climate change and opportunities to reduce them.
The existential issue of our time, the defining issue of our era, is global climate change.
If we were told – in any sphere – that we had at least a 90% chance of averting a disaster through changes we ourselves could make, wouldn’t we take action?