The Importance of Climate Change in Business

Formerly Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer, and now Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director at Haveli Investments, Lucas Joppa discusses the strategies and tools Microsoft developed to meet its ambitious carbon negative goals, including setting an internal price on carbon, restructuring their corporate governance, and funding innovative climate technology solutions. He also tells us why he thinks climate finance is entering its most consequential decade.

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Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative

Guest: Lucas Joppa, Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director, Haveli Investments

For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org.