Joan Michelson is an ESG consultant, host of the acclaimed Electric Ladies Podcast, dynamic public speaker and career advisor. energy, climate and sustainability, ESG (environment-social-governance). @joanmichelson or electricladiespodcast.com
Maybe those of us who care about an equitable, peaceful, climate-resilient and clean energy economy had gotten complacent. Maybe we thought everyone was seeing the progress we’ve seen. Maybe we didn’t hear how many of our fellow Americans have been suffering badly and feeling unheard – and how they are not finding out about the opportunities and the progress reports their own communities.
Maybe people did not know about or know how to secure some of the hundreds of thousands of new well-paying jobs – or even how to train for them. It’s up to members of the business community who believe in climate change and want to growing their communities, seizing the opportunities in this clean energy-climate-resilience economy to push back against their Senators & Members of Congress who seek to dismantle it.Good governance, your fiduciary responsibility demands it. Use the power and influence you have any way you can, including in the media.
Business leaders and board directors also are wise to remember that, regardless of what happens at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, their businesses have to comply with state and international regulations.– Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive – if they do any business in any European country.
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