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More than half of the world’s leading companies are currently managing severe weather, extreme temperatures, and drought costs, or expect to face those costs within the next six years.

Severe weather, extreme temperatures, and changing weather patterns have affected commodity prices, disrupted supply chains, damaged plants and equipment, and hurt consumer demand.

For restaurant owners, farmers, auto suppliers, insurers, real estate developers, and other business leaders, climate change is having a measurable impact on today’s bottom line—and trends suggest those costs will increase.

The good news? Shifting from coal to cleaner sources of energy should have little impact on business’s operating costs. Energy represents less than 1 percent of a typical business’s spending, and shifting to cleaner energy will increase that cost by about 3 percent in the near term. In other words, if it costs Company X $100 to manufacture its product, the Clean Power Plan would increase Company X’s cost by about 3 cents. Over the medium and long term, the CPP will lower utility costs.

Reports

Media

Briefing: National security expert Evan McMullin on climate action and severe weather in Utah

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure, ...

Briefing: White House officials on the Inflation Reduction Act, Healthcare Tax Credits, & Lowering Prescription Drug Costs

Climate & Clean Energy, Health Care, ...

Briefing: Environmental and Financial Experts on Financial Supply Chains

Climate & Clean Energy

Briefing: Former IRS Commissioners on Shrinking the Tax Gap

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

Briefing: White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Policy Priorities

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

Briefing: Building our Energy Infrastructure Back Better

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

Briefing: The American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

Briefing: Building Our Infrastructure Back Better

Climate & Clean Energy, Future of Work, ...

Briefing: White House on the American Jobs Plan

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure, ...

BUY LOCAL OPPORTUNITY

Climate & Clean Energy

CAN WE FIX CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT WRECKING OUR ECONOMY?

Climate & Clean Energy

Funding the Clean Energy Transition

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion

Briefing: Biden’s National Rural Engagement Director Will McIntee on Agriculture and Sustainable Infrastructure

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure, ...

Making the Business Case: Green Jobs

Climate & Clean Energy

Briefing: Biden Policy Director Stef Feldman on Modernizing our Energy Economy

Climate & Clean Energy, Small Business, ...

BRIEFING: IVAN FRISHBERG AND GREGG GELZINIS ON SUSTAINABLE BANKING

Climate & Clean Energy

ANSWERING AMERICA: CAN WE FIX CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT WRECKING THE ECONOMY?

Answering America, Climate & Clean Energy

CONFERENCE CALL: REP. DON BEYER (VA-08) ON THE NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION CLIMATE PRIORITIES

Climate & Clean Energy

CONFERENCE CALL WITH FRANZ LITZ ON THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE

Climate & Clean Energy

SOLUTIONS 2020: CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY POLICY WORKING GROUP

Climate & Clean Energy, Solutions 2020

News & Events

NEW REPORT: CAN WE FIX CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT WRECKING OUR ECONOMY?

Answering America, Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT: SHOULD WASHINGTON DO MORE TO SAVE COAL?

Answering America, Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT: BUSINESS LEADERS ON BIDEN’S DAY ONE EXECUTIVE ACTIONS

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

BUSINESS FORWARD TESTIFIES AT PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN SUPPORT OF RGGI

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

NEW REPORT ON THE TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE INITIATIVE

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

BUSINESS FORWARD RELEASES REPORT ON PASSIVE INVESTING

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW TRAINING MANUAL AND PODCAST ON GREEN JOBS

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE

Climate & Clean Energy

STATEMENT FROM JIM DOYLE REGARDING THE COALITION FOR CLEAN ENERGY AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

NEW BUSINESS LEADER STATEMENT ON SUSTAINABLE BANKING

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE BANKING

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON CREATING A CLEAN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN ILLINOIS

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN MINNESOTA

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN OHIO

Climate & Clean Energy

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN IOWA

Climate & Clean Energy

BRIEFING: EVAN McMULLIN ON CLIMATE ACTION AND SEVERE WEATHER IMPACT ON SMALL BUSINESS

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure, ...

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN WISCONSIN

Climate & Clean Energy

WHAT THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT MEANS FOR YOUR SMALL BUSINESS AND LOCAL ECONOMY

Climate & Clean Energy, Health Care, ...

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN MICHIGAN

Climate & Clean Energy

THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT DOESN’T RAISE YOUR TAXES: IT JUST MAKES IT HARDER FOR THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS TO CHEAT

Climate & Clean Energy, Tax

NEW REPORT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE DISRUPTS SUPPLY CHAINS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Climate & Clean Energy

BRIEFING: Environmental and Financial Experts on Financial Supply Chains

Climate & Clean Energy

STATEMENT FROM JIM DOYLE REGARDING THE CLCPA

Climate & Clean Energy

STATEMENT FROM JIM DOYLE REGARDING THE CLCPA

Climate & Clean Energy

GLOBAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY DEMANDS OFFICIALS AT COP26 MAKE MEASURABLE COMMITMENTS TO MEETING CLIMATE GOALS

Climate & Clean Energy

BRIEFING: CLIMATE AND THE BUILD BACK BETTER AGENDA

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

SMART INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT MUST INCLUDE CLIMATE ACTION

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

Briefing: White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Policy Priorities

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

4 Tough Questions on Renewable Energy: Business Forward Report to Next Governor of New York

Climate & Clean Energy

Briefing: Building our Energy Infrastructure Back Better with Secretary Granholm

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

Business Forward Reports: New York Business Leaders on Clean Energy

Climate & Clean Energy

Briefing: Building our Infrastructure Back Better

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

Briefing: White House Briefing on the American Jobs Plan

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion, ...

Biden Labor Department refuses to enforce Trump rule that would have gutted popular ESG investment options

Climate & Clean Energy

MODERN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND CLEAN AIR SHOULD BE PRIORITIES AS PENNSYLVANIA REBUILDS POST-PANDEMIC

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

Briefing: Biden Policy Advisor Will McIntee on Agriculture and Sustainable Infrastructure

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure, ...

TCI: We can reduce pollution and fix our roads at the same time

Climate & Clean Energy, Infrastructure

Climate Science Is Back; Time to Move on to Climate Math

Climate & Clean Energy

America’s biggest asset managers are objecting to the Department of Labor’s new proposal on ESG investing. Here’s why.

Climate & Clean Energy, Diversity & Inclusion

Milwaukee 2020 virtual policy roundtables, August 17-20

Climate & Clean Energy, Democracy & Elections, ...

Briefing: Biden Policy Director Stef Feldman on Modernizing our Energy Economy

Climate & Clean Energy, Small Business, ...

Just Focus on Opportunity

Climate & Clean Energy

BRIEFING: IVAN FRISHBERG AND GREGG GELZINIS ON SUSTAINABLE BANKING

Climate & Clean Energy

BRIEFING: REP. DON BEYER ON THE NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION CLIMATE PROPERTIES

Climate & Clean Energy

WEBINAR: FRANZ LITZ ON THE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE

Climate & Clean Energy

Recap: Solutions 2020 briefing with Tom Steyer

Climate & Clean Energy, Solutions 2020

What Business Leaders Are Saying: Trump Administration’s EPA Rule Denies Opportunity to Lead

Climate & Clean Energy

U.S. Energy Employment on the Rise

Climate & Clean Energy

U.S. Energy Employment on the Rise

Climate & Clean Energy

Doing the Math on the Clean Power Plan

Climate & Clean Energy

Market Solutions for Managing the Risk of Climate Change

Climate & Clean Energy

Answers to Four Tough Questions about Renewable Energy

Climate & Clean Energy

The Clean Power Plan Court Case

Climate & Clean Energy