The Role of Corporations in Adapting to or Avoiding a +3ºC World
November 18 @ 2:00 pm
2-3:10 PM Tues Nov 18 in Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 102
THE ROLE OF CORPORATIONS IN ADAPTING TO OR AVOIDING A +3ºC WORLD
How will corporations act in our warming world? Can they help us slow warming and better adapt to it? Or will they only make things worse? Learn from (and interrogate) our panelists about crowdfunding solar, greenwashing, blue bonds, structured finance, market shaping, the Salton Sea lithium fight, and more, as we approach a +3ºC world.
Panelists
Moderator: Dan Friedman, UCSC Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics
Lily Hsueh, Arizona State University Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, on tour for her new book, Corporations at Climate Crossroads, will discuss how corporations respond to climate threats and opportunities.
Galina Hale, UCSC Professor of Economics, will explain how structured finance and market shaping works for climate-related projects, e.g., Belize Blue Bonds.
Will Wiseman, 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 and CEO & Co-Founder at Climatize, a Santa-Cruz based NGO whose Funding Portal enables everyone to invest in community-based solar and energy efficiency projects, will explain crowdfunding for climate-related projects.
Chris Benner, UCSC Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at UCSC, will present on a case study of the corporate/community dynamics surrounding lithium extraction in the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource Area, as an illustration of broader dynamics we see around the globe (e.g. https://leadthecharge.org/)
Sponsored by the Earth Futures Institute and UCSC Climate Action Now
