3 Challenges For Climate Practitioners To Enact Meaningful Change In The Next Year

I have a hot take to share as an ESG Director—but as our planet gets hotter and natural disasters keep devastating communities, I don't think I have a choice.

Climate is my passion. Last month, I attended Climate Week 2024 in New York. While the programming was thoughtful, I had multiple conversations with fellow attendees about how we, as practitioners in the space, feel like we're not making as much of an impact as we'd like to.

Something has to change.

Carbon offsets alone aren't the answer to addressing climate change. But inaction while we come up with more impactful solutions isn't either. Many of the VC investments in promising climate tech won't deliver results, though that isn't a reason to stop trying. Given what's perceived as skepticism at worst and indifference at best to the issue of climate change, we as practitioners can't be the ones to “agree” with our “opponents.” We can't give climate change deniers an excuse by undermining our own efforts