Corporate Based Strategies to Try to Improve Global Warming

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Wall Street is pitching in for the climate crisis and talks about two separate ideas. The first idea is divestment, which is when activists like sell off their shares in polluting companies. Other idea that really complements divestment well is the idea of engagement. Activist investors buy shares of polluting companies but then influence them from the inside through shareholder resolutions.

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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framework? What is the "theory of change" framework? How can people use statistics (or statistical intuition) in everyday life? How accurate are climate change models? How much certainty do scientists have about climate change outcomes? What are some promising strategies for mitigating and reversing climate change?

Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the creator of Adventures in Cognitive Biases and co-founder of the non-profit Work on Climate. She is fascinated by how human biases affect the actions we take as a society and how to hack human psychology to get the change that we want. She is previously affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, MIT CS department, and Google AI. More of Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org.

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