A: This unsung/underground hero. Let’s bring it up at Climate Week.
For the past decade and a half, I have argued as loudly and as frequently as possible that humankind should be investing much more capital in nature in order to: 1) protect it, and 2) achieve the many hugely valuable outcomes that nature provides such as healthy watersheds, protection from extreme weather, productive soil, and carbon sequestration. (If you want to learn more about this broad opportunity, please check out my book, Nature’s Fortune.) Investing in nature turns out to be one of those win-win-win opportunities that produce huge ROIs.
More recently, as Board Chair at SPUN, and as someone who is trying to add ambition, scale, and urgency to the fight against climate change, I’ve been encouraging environmentalists and climate tech people to pay more attention to the underexplored might of mycorrhizal networks (aka fungi!). I now have new and powerful support to back me up. This is another one of those big win-win-win investment opportunities.