2784 Henry Paulson Chicago, Illinois Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Co-Chair, Risky Business Project I’m deeply concerned that climate change is a brewing crisis—much like the financial crisis of 2008—that poses massive risk to our economy and the quality of life for future generations. There are some who believe that even if we took steps to diminish the manmade impacts of climate change, we couldn’t possibly do enough to curb its catastrophic effects. But we simply can’t throw up our hands and bury our heads in the sand. I’ve spent my life managing risk, and I believe we need to manage climate risk the way we manage economic risk—and we need to do so before the excesses are so great that it’s too late. The good news is if we act immediately, we can still avoid most of the worst impacts of climate change, and significantly reduce the odds of costly, catastrophic outcomes on the environment—and, in...