Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision to step down is a loss for the global community as well as the people of New Zealand, but I have no doubt she’ll find new ways to remain at the forefront of issues she’s most passionate about, including climate change and gun safety.

Restricting Americans’ access to solar-powered electricity is an expensive, and dangerous, proposition in our changing climate.

Thanks to everyone who asked me a question about how Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg worked to make an impact on some of the toughest challenges we faced in 2022. Hard work and collaboration have inspired our work since the very beginning – and the more we find ways to work together with our partners, the more progress we can make.

Today, as we remember the 26 people killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School 10 years ago, most of them young children, let’s also remember the outrage we felt that day, when the horrible realization hit us that not even elementary schools are safe from America’s epidemic of gun violence.

This is a great day for equal rights in America, and a powerful testament to how organized and effective advocacy can lead to laws that guarantee fundamental rights — rights that are too important to leave to the Supreme Court’s changing politics.

The COP27 conference was a win for the planet, but more work — and investment — is crucial.

Economies are growing rapidly across the developing world, which is producing a dramatic increase in energy demand. A central challenge facing leaders at COP27 this week is how to meet that growing demand — and deliver electricity to the nearly 1 billion people who still lack it — while also phasing out the power source that is a primary driver of climate change and a major cause of sickness and disease: coal plants.

By voting “yes” on Proposition 31, Californians have taken a big step toward ending the nation’s teen vaping epidemic.

World leaders arrive in Egypt for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, amid a year of record-setting heat, floods and other extreme weather. And with new data showing 96 percent of the world’s population is living through unprecedented temperatures, no place is spared.

The FAST-Infra Group (Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition-Infrastructure) announced that it has chosen Bloomberg L.P. and the Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) to serve respectively as the Data Repository and Secretariat of the FAST-Infra Sustainable Infrastructure® (FISI) Label, following a thorough and competitive selection process.