Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change (WSJ)

A broad cross sec­tion of big U.S. cor­po­ra­tions in­clud­ing Ama­zon.­com Inc., Cit­i­group Inc. and Ford Mo­tor Co. are call­ing on Con­gress to work closely with Pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden to ad­dress the threat of cli­mate change.

In a let­ter to be sent to Congress and the Biden tran­si­tion team on Wednes­day, more than 40 com­pa­nies say they sup­port the U.S. re­join­ing the Paris cli­mate ac­cord, and urge “Pres­i­dent-elect Biden and the new Con­gress to work to­gether to en­act am­bi­tious, durable, bi­par­ti­san cli­mate so­lu­tions.”

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Author: Christopher K. Merker, Ph.D., CFA

Christopher K. Merker, PhD, CFA, is a director with Private Asset Management at Robert W. Baird & Co. and executive-in-residence and co-director of the Marquette S-Lab. He is also founder and chair of the board of Water + Energy Forward, a green bank focused on market-based climate solutions. He holds a PhD in investment governance and fiduciary effectiveness from Marquette University, where he has taught “Sustainable Finance” since 2009. He publishes Sustainable Finance and is co-author of The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing.

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