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Mindy Lubber          

CEO & President of Ceres, Sustainability Thought Leader & Social Impact Entrepreneur

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks have grown significantly in size and influence.

As a well-known global thought leader, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders to consider all material financial risks and opportunities—including those related to climate change, water scarcity and nature loss—in decision-making. She serves on the Steering Committee of powerful global initiatives including Climate Action 100+, Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and other efforts driving change in capital markets and seeking to achieve the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement.

Lubber is frequently quoted in mainstream business and financial media outlets and pens regular opinion columns for Forbes.com and Reuters.com on a range of sustainability issues. She has also received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership including the ’Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations highest environmental honor; the Barron’s Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance every year since 2020; the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network, the William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership from American University; the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation; and the Nonprofit Times 2022 Power & Influence Top 50. Under her leadership, Ceres has been repeatedly named a top 100 women-led business in Massachusetts by Globe Magazine.

Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Bill Clinton. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG).

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It Is Time For Every Company And Investor To Have A Climate Transition Plan
We are in a race against the climate crisis. Over the past two years, the number of companies and investors making climate commitments to avoid the worst impacts of the warming planet has surged dramatically. Yet, the latest research by the world’s climate scientists on the progress provides the starkest assessment yet—we are still far behind where we need to be.
The backlash to climate-smart investing in the U.S. is based on a blatant lie
August 15 - Imagine you are an investor, and a business comes to you with an opportunity. A beverage company, perhaps, whose facilities are running out of water. A clothing company whose cotton is all dying. A ski resort that is seeing less snow each year. A logistics company that is struggling with melting runways and buckled infrastructure, snarling already-strained supply chains across the economy. And imagine these companies aren’t doing anything to address these issues.
California Governor to Sign Landmark Climate Disclosure Bill
The first-in-the-nation law will compel major companies to publicly disclose their carbon dioxide emissions and could have national repercussions.
Scientists Say We Have Seven Years To Act. Here Are Seven Actions Investors And Companies Can Take In 2023
The new year represents a new paradigm of private sector action on our global sustainability challenges and seizing the greatest opportunities of our time. While climate change, water scarcity, and nature loss continue to impose hundreds of billions of dollars of damage, aligning strategies with the transition to a cleaner zero emissions economy has always been smart investment and solid business practice.
Unilever and Ceres on the Road to Net Zero
Marc Engel, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever and Mindy Lubber, CEO of Ceres, speak with BloombergNEF’s Kyle Harrison about the key challenges and opportunities that arise during the transition to a low carbon economy. (Source: Bloomberg)
Republicans plan more attacks on ESG. Investors still plan to focus on climate risk
Republicans are planning to use their control of the House of Representatives in 2023 to intensify attacks on companies that account for climate-related risks when they're making investment decisions. GOP officials in Washington and more than a dozen states say they're focusing on firms that are using their financial power to push a so-called woke political agenda, rather than trying to maximize profits. As part of the campaign, Florida, Louisiana and Missouri have collectively pulled more than $3 billion from BlackRock over the investment firm's consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Faced with the political backlash, Vanguard, another large asset manager, said it decided to withdraw from a group of investors that's working to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury.
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Interview: “Getting to an equitable, just and net-zero world is possible”
Mindy Lubber is CEO and President of Ceres, a sustainability non-profit working with the most influential capital market leaders – investors, companies, regulators and policymakers to drive equitable policy solutions throughout the economy. She leads an all-women executive team that has inspired these leaders to take actions that will help stabilize the climate, protect water and natural resources, and build a more just and inclusive economy. In 2020, Lubber was named as one of the UN Environment Program’s Champions of the Earth, and one of Barron’s Magazine 100 most influential women in U.S. finance for two years in a row.
Profits over planet? Experts eye companies at crucial moment for climate change fight
June 1 marked the start of another perilous hurricane season in the Eastern USA. Many communities are still recovering from last year, when there were 21 named tropical storms, the third- most on record. Led by Hurricane Ida, they caused destruction from southern Louisiana, where officials in Houma are racing to repair schools for opening this fall, to southeast Pennsylvania, where counties cope with a surging homeless population after residents were economically devastated.
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