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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: TIME100 2023 Climate Leaders on Technology [Watch (HLS stream): TIME100 2023 Climate Leaders on Technology](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3rijfnZz.m3u8) (4:01)  _Published 2023-11-16. TIME100 2023 Climate Leaders on Technology_ President and founder, Boston Common Asset Management by Geeta Aiyer  Nicole Chan Loeb _Geeta Aiyer is founder and president of Boston Common Asset Management, a woman-led, employee-owned sustainable investment firm with nearly $5 billion in assets under management. The firm prioritizes investment in climate change mitigation, and uses shareholder engagement to push portfolio companies toward more sustainable business practices._ **What sustainability effort do you hope will gain popularity with the general public this year, and why?** I hope the efforts to address and reverse biodiversity loss and invest in earth renewal gain traction. Ecosystems across the world are on the brink of collapse and millions of plant and animal species are at risk, including humans. Our global food supply, access to fresh water, battery development for electric vehicles, and AI technologies that depend on rare earth minerals—these are just a few of the many components comprising the near-term existential risks to businesses, the economy, society, and human health. Protecting, restoring, and enhancing biodiversity is also essential to climate change mitigation and adaptation as the stability of the climate and the road to net zero depend on the countless global ecosystems that act as tremendous carbon sinks. Companies have within their power the ability to reverse nature loss by promoting ecosystem resilience, significantly reducing deforestation, and advancing more sustainable methods of production and patterns of consumption. **What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?** Broad government and corporate action are necessary to advance the climate agenda. For too long, responsibility for climate stewardship has been placed in the hands of individual people who are given limited choices, dictated mostly by what is legislated—or not—and what is most financially profitable in the near term. The most impactful action will come from government legislation that guides corporate policy and holds companies accountable for their impact on the climate and environment. Governments can start by adopting and following through on commitments to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework set out at \[the 2022 U.N. biodiversity conference\] COP15, the most ambitious global agreement to reverse nature loss and ensure ecosystem resilience to-date. The public’s role is to demand that lawmakers support legislation that urgently addresses these critical systemic issues. **Where should climate activism go in the next year?** Too often overlooked in the battle to address the climate crisis is the serious need for stricter policies around the respect for human rights. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the ecological destruction caused by deforestation disproportionately impact under-resourced communities and communities of color. Meanwhile, protecting, restoring, and enhancing biodiversity provides social, economic, and environmental benefits to all communities and ecosystems. Activists must keep human rights front and center in the fight to protect our planet. We must advocate for government action and policy change. We must create the impetus for investing in solutions, and the deterrents for maintaining the status quo. Climate change is not an abstract threat impacting others sometime in the future. It is happening to us here and now. Let us act with appropriate urgency. ## Transcript Renewable Energy Technologies, which get a fair amount of attention are actually not widely available all across this planet. The truth is the wealthiest countries in the world are putting huge subsidies in place to help their economies Electrify in a more Green Manor. Whereas most of the world's Nations 70 to 80 countries that over the next twenty years will account for 75% of future carbon emissions are still stuck on coal heavy fuel oil and diesel generators. And until we make those Renewable Energy Technologies truly available to everyone we will not succeed at winning the fight against climate change one area that is not getting the attention and funding. It deserves its Energy Efficiency whose vast potential is not being tapped into by businesses policymakers and society as a whole the important thing to remember is that we may have built things incorrectly optimized to the wrong constraints orbit than waste. but you managed annuities Limitless we can redesign and optimize to the relevant constraints of the carbon budget greenhouse gas emissions resource use and water shortages really looking at our aging infrastructure and thinking about grid modernization about transmission lines is one of the most important things that we can do and is going to allow us to be able to grow the supply of renewable energy and to really get at climate change much quicker and we don't talk about it because it's complicated it is tied up in a lot of regional issues and power dynamics and local issues and it has big upfront costs that we don't always want to invest in but one of the things that we know is that if we don't invest now, we are going to be facing those cost down the road and in much bigger Waze Aviation is today responsible for two to three percent of global CO2 emissions and with a travel expected to double in the next 50 years of the Asian and missions are expected to increase significantly underscoring the urgent need for Solutions in action. Sustainable aviation fuel is one kilo to reduce aviation-related emissions and to achieve the aviation Industries Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 gold really believe we need a shift to increase Investments directly into nature nature is a foundational resource, especially within our industry providing Natura solutions for us to utilize fostering vital by diversity which will sustain our well-being and long-term future and offering ecosystem Services of incredible value. If I take as an example, I'll work with for weaves at Iberostar healthy, we will nurture small fish for future food sources and lift up local Fisheries by protecting and regenerating nature. We support the environment and local economy. There's a technology right now available that's been around for like 3.4 billion years. That is Deployable instantly and that is photosynthesis 25% of the global carbon emissions that we have today, Destruction on the wall nature we got to get that 20 and then into negative territory within ten to fifteen years. If we don't do that and we have no chance even if we did all the other days we have at scale. This is almost impossible. We will still exceed the 1.5 one point eight degrees Celsius jump that we think still keep our planet relatively livable. It provides multiple benefits to Whitewater. It keeps cities cool. It provides by diversity pollination food security to me. 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