Mike Bloomberg said Monday that despite President Trump’s rhetoric, he would not be able to resuscitate the country’s declining coal mining industry. “In all fairness, he is not going to be able to bring back those jobs,” the billionaire media mogul told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric. “There is nothing that is going to […]

A new CBS poll shows a majority of Americans have a pessimistic outlook for the environment, with 57 percent believing it will be worse for the next generation. A new book by Mike Bloomberg and former Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope offers a more optimistic view. It’s called “Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, […]

Rachel Martin speaks with Mike Bloomberg and former chairman of the Sierra Club Carl Pope about how cities should respond to climate change and their new book, Climate of Hope. Listen now  

View Mike Bloomberg’s full interview with Steve Kroft here. The name Bloomberg is a worldwide brand that could refer to a number of things…a cable channel, a radio network, a news service, a magazine, or a 75-year-old former mayor of New York who founded the Bloomberg Financial media empire and flirted with running for president. […]

It’s easy to be despondent about climate change. The issue received almost no attention during an eighteen-month presidential campaign that tested everyone’s patience. As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would “cancel” the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and has rolled back many of the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. His pick to lead […]

President Trump’s unfortunate and misguided rollback of environmental protections has led to a depressing and widespread belief that the United States can no longer meet its commitment under the Paris climate change agreement. But here’s the good news: It’s wrong. No matter what roadblocks the White House and Congress throw up, the United States can […]

No individual has contributed more to the commercial and civic life of New York City over a longer period of time than David Rockefeller. I was fortunate to call him a good friend – something my father, a bookkeeper, never would have imagined possible – and I have long admired his commitment to the city, […]

Statements by Michael R. Bloomberg, C40 President of the Board, Co-Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors, and U.N. Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change and Mayor Anne Hidalgo, C40 Chair, Global Covenant of Mayors Board Member and Mayor of Paris Today in Paris, Michael R. Bloomberg and Mayor Hidalgo met with […]

Voters across Britain, the United States and Europe have been expressing frustration with globalization. Although wage stagnation and the loss of manufacturing jobs have more to do with automation at home than with trade abroad, people are feeling disempowered by global forces beyond their control, and alienated from democratic political systems that have been slow […]

OVERVIEW 50 Reefs will be the first global plan to save the most biodiverse ecosystem on the planet. The final list and corresponding initiatives, to be announced later this year, will raise awareness of the increasing severity of climate change impacts on the ocean and catalyze the global action and investment required to protect these […]