Aligning profit with planet

Regenerative technologies could help forge a path forward

- BY ROSE MARCARIO

A CLIMATE EMERGENCY IS UNFOLDING IN REAL time—and those of us in the business community are largely to blame.

As we deplete earth's resources, we have hit the point of diminishing returns. In the U.S. alone, there were over $100 billion in economic losses in 2023 due to severe weather events, droughts and global heating. Businesses bear most of the responsibility for the climate crisis, but so far have faced none of the real consequences. Business leaders have privatized the benefits our planet provides and socialized the costs of its destruction, impacting communities that now face biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, extreme weather, and the loss of healthy topsoil.