Author: Erik Kobayashi-Solomon

Capitalism Versus Climate Change: The Case Of Carbon Engineering

Posted by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 11, 2019 | Post-Carbon |

The Carbon Engineering Squamish plant. Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Taken on April 20, 2016. Imagine vacuuming CO2 out of the thin air and transforming the carbon into jet fuel or gasoline. While it might seem like a...

Climate Change Investing: The Greatest Opportunity In History

Posted by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 20, 2018 | Economy |

Paul Romer, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics, in discussion with attendees at the Romer Chat Event taking place during the 2014 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum “Transport for a Changing World”...

Science Doesn’t Care What Trading Desks Are Saying

Posted by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 13, 2018 | Economy |

Icebergs float in a fjord after calving off from glaciers on the Greenland ice sheet in southeastern Greenland. President Donald Trump seems to be describing another planet’s climate because the Earth he described...

Investments That Ignore Climate Change Just Burn Money

Posted by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Nov 5, 2018 | Economy |

April 4, 2012.Flickr Like many of you, I have been shocked reading the stories about the Camp fire in Northern California and the Hill and Woolsey fires, just west of Los Angeles. Fires have long been a feature of Californian...

AgTech: A Great Investment For The Future

Posted by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Oct 23, 2018 | AgTech |

In my article about the St. Joe Company JOE, “Two Tales Of One City,” I presented a cautionary case of how climate change can (and will) negatively affect asset values. While it is important for investors to...