Speed & Scale

Climate change is the product of huge interlocking forces—of biology and physics, government and commerce.

The world’s total emissions are the sum of billions of business decisions—about how to power buildings, manufacture products, and get them to customers. We’ll only get to zero if every business integrates carbon into those decisions.

manage carbon just like they manage every other part of their business.

The plastic pollution lifecycle shows where we are today, and it’s not a pretty picture. Only 9 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. What happens to the rest? Twelve percent is incinerated, emitting carbon dioxide, and the rest ends up in landfills and ultimately our oceans. Plastic pollution has exploded by a factor of ten since 1980.

This global unevenness calls for a range of solutions. In wealthier countries, our strategy includes standardized labeling, municipal composting programs, and public awareness campaigns. And we need more effective waste-reduction programs between retailers and food banks and their supply chains.

“A wider movement of farmers wants to get on board with regenerative agriculture,” says Amol Deshpande of the Farmers Business Network. “It’s both more profitable and it helps preserve their land—and ninety percent of their wealth is in their land.” In shifting more land from pasturing to high-demand crops, he adds, farmers can further increase the