ClimateVoices
EPISODE 46
ClimateVoices Featuring Elizabeth Doty
"Trade associations are amongst the largest and most effective business advocacy channels. The challenge is that this advocacy can be defensive or forward-leaning."
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Elizabeth Doty
Director of the Erb Institute’s Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce at the University of Michigan
EPISODE 45
ClimateVoices Featuring Eliza Nemser
"Climate advocacy needs to become a habit, and there’s nothing like moving the needle in community. "
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Eliza Nemser
Executive Director and Co-Founder at Climate Changemakers
EPISODE 44
ClimateVoices Featuring Alison Taylor
"Corporate leaders have come to see much of sustainability as stealth PR and there is a reluctance to admit to failures and challenges. But in fact, being clear about these is now the best way to build trust, given that there is such a gotcha mindset and focus on hypocrisy and greenwashing."
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Alison Taylor
Author & Clinical Professor at NYU Stern School of Business
EPISODE 43
ClimateVoices Featuring Arielle Terry
"Yes, I do believe it is possible to be an employee activist while working full time in the climate sector. I love that my day job allows me to directly see the impact that my role has in the rapid transition to a clean economy for all."
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Arielle Terry
Dedicated advocate for climate action and Manager, Lending Solutions at ATMOS Financial
EPISODE 42
ClimateVoices Featuring Patrick Flynn
"Especially with policy, there’s safety and strength in numbers."
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Patrick Flynn
Advisor, Investor, Board Member - Working for Planet Earth
EPISODE 41
ClimateVoices Featuring Patrick Feder
"Appealing to that innate human desire and leading by example – every small action and step counts – is something all employees can start doing right away."
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Patrick Feder
Managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP and digital transformation leader
EPISODE 40
ClimateVoices Featuring Joel Makower
"Be bold! It's time to step up — and speak up. All of us — those inside companies and those outside — spend too much time celebrating incremental change in an era where audacious step-change is needed. "
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Joel Makower
Chairman and co-founder of GreenBiz Group
EPISODE 39
ClimateVoices Featuring Caroline Spears
"Many companies talk a big game on climate – but their lobbying dollars and trade association memberships actually slow climate policy down. "
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Caroline Spears
Executive Director of Climate Cabinet
EPISODE 38
ClimateVoices Featuring Dr. Renée Lertzman
"Attune to your colleagues, peers and leaders, show up as open and supportive, and convene people around all kinds of amazing opportunities to dig in and dream together what is possible. "
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Dr. Renée Lertzman
Climate psychologist and environmental strategist
EPISODE 37
ClimateVoices Featuring Karen Johns
"We share a common vision with ClimateVoice that the employees are a critical leverage point to holding businesses accountable to their current commitments and applying pressure to go beyond them. "
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Karen Johns
CEO of the GOOD Institute
EPISODE 36
ClimateVoices Featuring Ali Sheridan
"Depending on companies to do the moral thing or on voluntary industry initiatives has not worked. Assumptions that more renewable energy will displace fossil fuels or that more corporate climate reporting will deliver action have not borne out."
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Ali Sheridan
Director of Major Partnerships at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
EPISODE 34
ClimateVoices Featuring Catherine McKenna
"Change must come from the bottom and the top, and there's a real opportunity for employees to push leadership to do more on climate."
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Catherine McKenna
Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions and a crucial global leader on climate.
EPISODE 33
ClimateVoices Featuring Mary Dube
"There is a process and journey involved in being seen as an employee leader and understanding the key issues to be addressed to drive meaningful change. "
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Mary Dube
Senior executive at HP who is passionate about volunteer work in sustainability.
EPISODE 32
ClimateVoices Featuring Michael Mann
"Evidence tells us that there is but a narrow window of opportunity that exists at this point for preserving our 'fragile moment’."
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Michael E. Mann
Renowned climate scientist and Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
EPISODE 31
ClimateVoices Featuring James Browning
"Our F Minus approach with trade associations will be to demand that they also cut ties with fossil fuel lobbyists."
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James Browning
Founder and Executive Director of F Minus
EPISODE 30
ClimateVoices Featuring Rebecca Solnit
"The business model of the fossil fuel industry is destroying the future and the planet."
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Rebecca Solnit
Activist, scholar, historian, and author of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.
EPISODE 29
ClimateVoices Featuring Drew Wilkinson
"Engaging in climate activism at work is essential. And I can tell you from experience – it works. "
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Drew Wilkinson
Climate activist and community organizer
EPISODE 28
ClimateVoices Featuring Dr. Robert Brulle
"It is clear to me that the vast mismatch between the spending efforts of renewable energy trade associations and fossil fuel trade associations gives opponents of climate action a significant advantage in the policy process."
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Dr. Robert Brulle
Visiting Professor of Environment and Society at Brown University, and author of groundbreaking research on trade associations, political activity, and climate change.
EPISODE 27
ClimateVoices Featuring Nina Jacobs
"We know that the Chamber has been hypocritical in its support for minority communities."
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Nina Jacobs
Co-founder, Change the Chamber
EPISODE 26
ClimateVoices Featuring Jamie Henn
"Employees can have a tremendous impact when they come together and get their employers, or entire industries, to change. "
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Jamie Henn
Founder and Director of Fossil Free Media
EPISODE 25
ClimateVoices Featuring Bill McKibben
"Employees know their companies well – and most want to be proud of where they work. They need to communicate that that pride depends on their companies behaving forthrightly."
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Bill McKibben
Author, Environmentalist, and Founder of Third Act
EPISODE 24
ClimateVoices Featuring Saad Amer
"Companies need to follow through on their environmental commitments."
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Saad Amer
Environmental justice expert and a consultant to the United Nations
EPISODE 23
ClimateVoices Featuring Nalleli Cobo
"The fossil fuel industry plays a significant role in delaying climate justice."
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Nalleli Cobo
Los Angeles environmental activist
EPISODE 22
ClimateVoices Featuring Deborah McNamara
"A key opportunity for real change lies in our collective willingness to confront and overcome the power of the status quo and a ‘business as usual’ approach."
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Deborah McNamara
Co-Executive Director, ClimateVoice
EPISODE 21
ClimateVoices Featuring Kathrin Winkler
"Allowing a trade group to represent your company in a position that is counter to its commitment to climate action is a form of hypocrisy, and companies are increasingly being called out on it."
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Kathrin Winkler
Former Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC)
EPISODE 20
ClimateVoices Featuring Dylan Tanner
"InfluenceMap ascertains that the IRA's passage was facilitated by the direct intervention of large U.S. companies like Walmart, despite the U.S. Chamber and other groups' opposition."
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Dylan Tanner
Executive Director and Founder, InfluenceMap
EPISODE 19
ClimateVoices Featuring Shaandiin Cedar
"Find your community, organize, vote, protest, and target the political pressure points closest to you. "
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Shaandiin Cedar
Associate at Powerhouse Ventures and an advocate for Indigenous-led climate action
EPISODE 18
ClimateVoices Featuring Justin Gillis
"The U.S. Chamber’s odious stance on climate change is just unacceptable. Employees need to push their companies to play hardball. If the Chamber can’t get to a reasonable position on climate change, then forward-looking companies need to resign from it en masse."
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Justin Gillis
Award-winning journalist and co-author of "The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet."
EPISODE 17
ClimateVoices Featuring Vanessa Fajans-Turner (AKA “The Enforcer”)
"Employees can be massively influential in asking their employers to integrate their cash-related emissions into corporate sustainability strategies and take actions to green their finances. "
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Vanessa Fajans-Turner
Executive Director, BankFWD
EPISODE 16
Three Questions for Bill Weihl – Special ClimateVoices COP27 Edition
"We don’t have time for more half-measures. We need companies to match their actions with their rhetoric – to really go “all in” on climate."
—Bill Weihl
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Bill Weihl
Founder and Executive Director, ClimateVoice
Jennifer Allyn
Director of Campaigns, ClimateVoice
EPISODE 15
ClimateVoices Featuring Jigar Shah
"Corporations need to make sure their procurement agreements match their net zero pledges."
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Jigar Shah
Director for the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy
EPISODE 14
ClimateVoices Featuring Paul Polman (AKA “Captain Planet”)
"For CEOs, what’s needed above all else is willpower... I would also urge more CEOs to be part of a new narrative around climate, where business sets out the opportunities and helps de-risk the ambitious policies we need from our political leaders."
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Paul Polman
Business leader, campaigner, co-author “Net Positive."
EPISODE 13
Truth to Power: Journalists Holding Companies Accountable on Climate
"The idea that this is a problem where we don't know the answers misstates the problem. We do know what to do, but we lack the political will to do it."
—Judd Legum
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Judd Legum
Founder and Author of Popular Information
Emily Atkin
Founder and Author of HEATED
EPISODE 12
Guilt by Trade Association: Calling Out Climate Hypocrisy
"I think employees play a crucial role... in not tolerating any more of the doublespeak of their employers."
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Alberto Alemanno
Founder and Director, The Good Lobby
EPISODE 11
Now or Never: What We Can and Must Do to Act on Climate
"What we need is the political will, and we need people to use their ClimateVoice."
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Michael E. Mann
Climatologist, Author, and Professor of Atmospheric Science
EPISODE 10
Owning Our Future: Climate, Companies, and the Youth Voice
"What we actually need is a tangible visible change, and that comes from government leaders and corporate sector leaders."
—Katie Eder
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Katie Eder
Co-founder and Executive Director of Future Coalition
Jerome Foster II
Climate justice activist and Advisor to the Biden White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Maya Penn
CEO of Maya's Ideas, an eco-friendly fashion company
EPISODE 9
A Dangerous Distraction: Why ESG Won’t Save Our Climate
"The people most impatient about the rate of change are almost always younger folks. It's only fair that they demand better results on the climate crisis."
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Tariq Fancy
CEO & Founder of Rumie, Former Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing at BlackRock
EPISODE 8
Saving Our Climate: A 2022 Action Agenda
"Using your voice is the most powerful thing you can do, in whatever circles you’re in."
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Katharine Hayhoe
Climate Scientist & Author
EPISODE 7
Climate After COP26: What Happened, What Didn’t, and What’s Next
"Probably the biggest barrier to getting this all done is the lack of political will around deploying climate solutions at the speed and scale required."
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Jamie Alexander
Director of Drawdown Labs @ Project Drawdown
EPISODE 6
Heated About Climate: The Policy, the Politics, the #$@!%
"People need to understand that things can change and it’s possible to pressure corporations and politicians to change their behavior."
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Emily Atkin
Climate Journalist and Author of the HEATED Newsletter
EPISODE 5
Climate Crunch Time: Why Electrify, Why Policy, Why Now
"Legislation is written by the people who can afford to show up."
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Dr. Saul Griffith
Inventor, Entrepreneur, Engineer, Founder of Rewiring America and Otherlab, and Author of Electrify
EPISODE 4
Climate + Nature: Why the Global Commons Matters
"The time for looking at these problems in silos is in the past. We can either solve both crises or neither."
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Erin Billman
Executive Director of the Science Based Targets Network
EPISODE 3
The New Climate War: Will Tech Join the Fight?
"The surest way to lose a war is to fail to recognize you're in one."
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Michael E. Mann
Climatologist, Author of The New Climate War, and Professor of Atmospheric Science
EPISODE 2
Climate, Justice and the Critical Role of Companies
"There is a big role companies can play. Both companies and the public sector are critical for stepping up to the climate justice agenda."
—Sekita Grant
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Sekita Grant
VP of Programs at The Solutions Project
Isha Clarke
Environmental and Social Justice Activist
EPISODE 1
Big Tech’s Deafening Silence on Climate Policy
"Priority #1 still has to be 1.5°C."
—Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
United States Senator from Rhode Island
Kendra Haven
Program Manager at InfluenceMap