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A couple of years ago, David Gellis read a newsletter that caught his attention.

Well, I'll spare you the reading of the entire letterberry, but what I'll do is sort of synopsize it.

It came from an unlikely source. Larry Fink, the founder and CEO of the investment firm, BlackRock.

I was thinking about all the different crises we've dealt with in my career.

It's very clear to me the physical changes that we may see with climate change are more permanent.

What he said was that after many years, when companies really didn't put climate change

and the environmental crisis at the center of their decision-making processes,

all companies were now going to have to reckon with climate change in one way or another.

As a large investment firm in the world, I believe more of our clients worldwide believe

in some form of the science of not all the science of climate change.

And they're asking how should they be better prepared in their investment criteria?

And he made the case that that meant in part really pursuing a path towards net zero,

towards reducing carbon emissions.

Many of these problems could be solved, but the actions have to begin now.

David is a climate reporter at the New York Times, and he was excited to see influential executives like Fink

taking an interest in combating climate change.

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