Our Take: IMPACT 2026 Predictions

Written by Jay Tipton Introduction Well-intentioned groups and individuals around the world are grasping at straws in the search for effective solutions to mitigate and adapt to the ever-intensifying impacts of climate change. For those on the front lines, the urgency is palpable. It grows more acute with every new daunting scientific report and each piece…

“Renewables cannot do it. …. They are just low-density power sources. You can’t run a modern economy on wind farms and rooftop solar.” This was the outlook of a prominent economist in 2012. He shared this opinion in a book he published in 2012. To be fair, Sir Dieter Robin Helm is on the right side of addressing climate change.

I recently had a friend who owns a small business ask how his company could become “net zero.” This term was completely new to him – he had heard it before but didn’t fully grasp what it meant. He understood it was about sustainability, but beyond that, he wasn’t sure where to start. I explained the basics and gave him a few pointers. But it dawned on me that I am so deep in the climate finance space, constantly surrounded by experts who understand climate change, sustainability, and corporate action in detail, that I sometimes forget people outside of our space are still learning.