Generate Capital, PBC (“Generate” or “the Company”) is a leading diversified sustainable infrastructure company focused on delivering affordable and reliable resource solutions to companies, communities and cities. Generate builds, owns, operates, and finances sustainable resource solutions for clean energy, transportation, water, waste, agriculture and digital infrastructure. With billions of dollars in permanent and flexible balance
As the world readies for yet another COP of disappointment, every news outlet covering climate is rushing to tell the story about failing “net-zero” commitments. Every one I read reminds me of that Indiana Jones moment. The conversation is always about how firms and countries are not on pace to meet their “net-zero” pledges because of
Last year, the Lancet published a survey of 10,000 young people from around the world finding that over 80% of people between 16-25 were at least moderately worried about climate change with over 50% being extremely worried. The study also found that feelings of anxiety, anger, guilt, and helplessness are translating into practical and life-defining decision
Two things, then, were surprising to me this morning. The first, that Dilbert still exists. The second, that ESG as a concept has pervaded the zeitgeist of a typical American-morning-coffee-and-reading-the-paper ritual (to the extent that the “paper” part of that still exists). To me, the value of ESG is pretty simple. On the E side – from