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Blog Archives: April 2022

The Time Is Now: The 2022 Practitioners Gathering in Santa Monica, CA

April 01, 2022
Dana Lanza, Confluence Philanthropy
The past two years have brought the importance of progressive change into stark view. Climate chaos, racial stratification, investor dissonance, and skyrocketing economic inequities mandate that the “Time is Now” for honest exploration, accountability, collective healing, and real solutions to emerge. The kind of change called forth is transformative. It must happen at all levels, all over, beginning now. Few have been spared from the suffering created by a system that externalizes cost for profit and the climate is no longer waiting for ...

The Time Is Now: Fighting Petrostates with Clean Energy

April 01, 2022
Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker Initiative
As the terrible war in Ukraine continues, our dependency on fossil fuels has challenged the world to make a choice. We stand at an unavoidable fork in the road. Either we double down by expanding oil and gas production and thereby increasing dependency, or we make the switch to a cleaner, cheaper energy system based on renewables, and with it, genuine independence. At present we burn fossil fuels every day to run our economies, despite the serious negative impacts on our environment and in particular the climate. The Ukraine crisis has ...

The Time is Now: Investing in Impact and Belonging

April 01, 2022
Don Chen, Surdna Foundation
After not attending any large gatherings for two years, I was excited to join Confluence's 12th Annual Practitioners Gathering. It felt special to be back among colleagues in a conference room—abuzz with ideas and human connection. At the very start of the meeting, I was immediately struck by a deeper significance of what “being in the room” means. john a. powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, opened the conference with an idea that resonates strongly with me: “Inclusion”—as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts ...

The Time is Now: Bold Climate Action Cannot Wait

April 01, 2022
Tom Steyer, Galvanize Climate Solutions
The 2022 Practitioners Gathering was named “The Time is Now”, and when it comes to the climate crisis, this name could not be more appropriate. As Ellen Dorsey rightfully proclaimed at the end of our conversation, “the time is now for Confluence to declare a climate emergency.” The urgency of our current moment cannot be overstated. When we convened, I shared that if we continue to emit at our current rate, our carbon budget—the amount of CO2, we can emit without reaching a change of 1.5°C—would expire in 7 years, 4 months,  and 12 days....