Forbes – Jeff McMahon
There’s a stunning new sense of inevitability in these climate talks—not the inevitability of climate change, which has always been present at UN conferences—but the inevitability of a worldwide human response to it.
In Paris this week it seems inevitable that positive change is about to occur, that humanity is on the cusp of tremendous, disruptive change, as if we have just grown wings and are about to leap from the branch. Here, in the words of Al Gore, is why:
“The business community—investors, technology developers, researchers and others—have brought the technologies of solar voltaics and wind power and efficiency and battery storage and sustainable forests and sustainable agriculture to the point where these new approaches are extremely competitive with the legacy approaches we are quite used to.”
And the business community has a new prominence in the summit as well. Institutional investors and fund managers are collaborating with strategists here to reform the world’s financial markets to protect them from the “stranded assets” of fossil fuels.
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