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Blog Archives: January 2021 — December 2021

Call to Action: Start Learning About The Importance of China

March 23, 2021

Danny Kennedy, New Energy Nexus

This must be about the most important time to get our “practice” of fund management and investment right from the point of view of people and the planet as there has ever been. If this isn’t “the moment we’ve been waiting for”, then when the hell will it be!? And I’m thrilled because at Confluence’s Climate Solutions Summit, for the first time, we contemplated an important major change agent: China. “China” is often looked at as a big monolith given its government structure and culture. But that’s about as informed as understanding the ...

A Social Dilemma – Do Social Media Companies Have a Place in a Values-Based Portfolio?

March 23, 2021

Sonia Kowal, Zevin Asset Management

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Jeff Orlowski, the director of the documentary The Social Dilemma, which tracks the fall of our information age to the disinformation age and examines the role of social media companies in eroding our social fabric. The situation is akin to a horror movie but one where we have the power to choose the ending. The business model of social media companies seeks clicks and eyeball time by keeping people angry, anxious, and emotionally piqued. It also relies on vast data accumulation and a loss ...

Invest in Justice to Solve the Climate Crisis

March 22, 2021

Dan Chu, Sierra Club Foundation

We are facing the greatest challenges to humanity in our lifetimes from the combined pandemic and climate crises. These two existential threats are tearing apart the fabric of our society and exposing deep inequities and injustice. These two crises impact all of us, but with particularly devastating impacts on communities that are most economically and environmentally stressed. The Sierra Club Foundation is deeply and urgently committed to addressing such systemic racism. Having already divested from fossil fuels, we are proactively ...

Bridging Leadership on the Pathway to 1.5°C

March 21, 2021

Nili Gilbert, David Rockefeller Fund

Bridging Leadership Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair at Synergos and I were honored to come together in a fireside chat for Confluence Philanthropy’s Reset 2021: Climate Summit to discuss a topic that is top of mind for many leaders today. How can we limit global warming to 1.5°C, and stave off the worst effects of climate change? It was so special to combine Peggy’s perspective as a renowned philanthropist and activist, with my own perspective as a mainstream investor. Together with several other leaders, Peggy and I recently ...

Our Democracy Prevailed Against Authoritarianism, But the Threat Remains

March 19, 2021

Justin Florence, Protect Democracy

I was grateful to lead a breakout session on “Building a Stronger, More Inclusive Democracy: Tackling Voter Suppression, Advocating for Voter Policy Reform, and Supporting Fair Elections” during Confluence’s RESET2021 summit. We discussed how American democracy is threatened by converging strands of authoritarianism. At a global level, democracy is in retreat at the hands of a new wave of autocratic strongmen. Here in the U.S., there’s a resurgence of violent white supremacism -- which for decades used authoritarian tactics to dominate many ...

My Journey From Wealth to Purpose

February 08, 2021

Meredith Heimburger, Global Endowment Management

I found out my grandfather was a billionaire from an article in Forbes that my friend Andy found in our high school library. My grandfather’s rags to riches story had made him a bit of a celebrity—the son of Greek immigrants whose mother died when he was thirteen, grew up in and out of stable housing, worked his way through college, graduated top of his class and captain of his tennis team, and built a company from scratch to become a billionaire. In our house, we didn’t talk about money, but we were made aware of its injustice—how unfair the ...

A New Year and New Momentum for Decarbonizing Bank Lending

February 04, 2021

A week before the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration, the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation invited the Climate Solutions Collaborative (C2C) of Confluence Philanthropy and the Rainforest Action Network to present a webinar on decarbonizing bank lending to the Switzer and Confluence members. With the United States now officially recommitted to the Paris Climate Agreement, our nation – under the leadership of the most climate-forward president ever – is finally ready to tackle the dangers of a changing climate. Across the ...

The Opportunity - and Duty - of New Leadership

January 12, 2021

Aimée Christensen, Christensen Family Office

As we prepare for the start of the Biden Harris Administration, Confluence Philanthropy members hold a unique position as investors, job creators and trailblazers within the clean energy finance sector. Confluence members have the opportunity to leverage expertise and to advocate for policy reform and other governmental action to advance public- and private-sector efforts to accelerate President-Elect Biden’s ambitious Clean Energy Plan. The plan includes: on day 1, rejoining the Paris Agreement and initiating reversal of damaging executive ...

My journey from the Cold War to Climate Crisis Investor

January 05, 2021

Tim Dunn, Terra Alpha Investments

Fifty-nine years ago, I was born into a world with 3 billion people. In the 1960’s a middle-class lifestyle was an achievable goal, though only one in six people had attained that status. We had yet to celebrate our first Earth Day (that would happen in 1970) and few US federal environmental standards existed. The major global issue of the time (the 1960-80s) was the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union, and the threat of nuclear warfare. In elementary school, we practiced hiding under our desks in the event the Soviets launched a ...

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