Last month a Wall Street Journal editor asked a room full of CEOs to raise their hands if the corporate tax cut being considered in Congress would lead them to invest more. Very few hands went up. Attending was Gary Cohn, President Donald Trump’s economic adviser and a friend of mine. He asked: “Why aren’t […]

On December 12th, 2017, two years to the day after the historic adoption of the Paris Agreement, global leaders convened at the One Planet Summit in Paris to strengthen the world’s collective commitment to climate action. French President Emmanuel Macron, joined by the President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim and Secretary-General of […]

Earlier today we lost one of America’s most passionate champions for climate action, and a great urban leader, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. I had the chance to work with Mayor Lee while I was in office and later through our foundation. He helped make San Francisco a global leader on climate change, and he […]

The following is the text of Mike Bloomberg’s speech as prepared on Monday, December 11th, 2017 in Paris, France. “Good evening, everyone. It’s a pleasure to welcome you tonight to this dinner — and I want to thank the host of tomorrow’s One Planet Summit, President Macron, for bringing us all together. I want to […]

  Today, at the first-ever North American Climate Summit, over 50 local leaders from across the world continued discussions about bottom-up climate action and reaffirmed their commitment to the global fight against climate change. Former President Barack Obama gave the keynote address and endorsed America’s Pledge, an initiative that compiles and quantifies the actions of […]

Today, South Africa’s parliament officially adopted a sugary beverage tax, the first significant sugary beverage tax in Sub-Saharan Africa. In response, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Michael Bloomberg said: “South Africa is the latest in a growing list of countries to recognize that sugary beverages are harmful to health and that taxes work to […]

In response to a new series of “corrective” television and newspaper advertisements by cigarette manufacturers explaining how they willfully misled the public about the negative health effects of tobacco products, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases Michael R. Bloomberg said: “These ads, mandated by a U.S. District Court more than 10 years ago, are a […]

The following is a statement from Mike Bloomberg in response to the U.S. Administration’s event on fossil fuels at COP23 today in Bonn, Germany: “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit. It’s also a denial of what’s happening in the US – half of all American coal plants […]

By Lisa Friedman  When President Trump announced in June that the United States would withdraw from the Paris agreement, America officially ceded its global leadership on climate change. The retreat had actually begun months earlier, when climate change disappeared from most government websites and vanished from America’s domestic and international agendas. No longer would the […]

The following is the text of Mike Bloomberg’s speech as prepared on Saturday, November 11th, 2017. “Thank you, Laurence, for the introduction, and for the great work you’re leading through the European Climate Foundation, which Bloomberg Philanthropies is glad to support. The organization has a great track record helping speed the transition to clean energy […]