Brynn O’Brien not only reads corporate climate plans, she crunches the numbers. When they don’t add up, she calls her friends who manage trillions of dollars in assets and they all ask to speak to the manager. Brynn is the Executive Director of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a shareholder activist organization that works to ensure that publicly traded companies with net zero goals are conducting their coal mining, electricity generation, and other activities in a way that ensures we hit the 1.5C Paris target. Recently, ACCR has replaced part of a board, brought forward coal plant closures, and filed a lawsuit that’s taking on greenwashing. 

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Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd and our senior producer is Christine Driscoll. Special thanks to David Stringer and Kira Bindrim. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit bloomberg.com/green. 

Brynn O’Brien not only reads corporate climate plans, she crunches the numbers. When they don’t add up, she calls her friends who manage trillions of dollars in assets and they all ask to speak to the manager. Brynn is the Executive Director of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a shareholder activist organization that works to ensure that publicly traded companies with net zero goals are conducting their coal mining, electricity generation, and other activities in a way that ensures we hit the 1.5C Paris target. Recently, ACCR has replaced part of a board, brought forward coal plant closures, and filed a lawsuit that’s taking on greenwashing. 
Listen to other episodes: 
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<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pod.link/1621556928.apple">Listen to an episode about divestment with the writer behind Love Actually</a> </li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pod.link/1621556928/episode/f82fc7934129a23ddcf9caa28f61860c">Listen to our episode about Australia’s “Climate Election.”</a></li>
</ul>
Read More: 
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-16/agl-plans-massive-expansion-of-renewables-as-it-abandons-coal">AGL Plans Massive Expansion of Renewables as it Abandons Coal - Bloomberg</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://akshatrathi.com/book/">Order Akshat’s book</a></li>
</ul>
Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd and our senior producer is Christine Driscoll. Special thanks to David Stringer and Kira Bindrim. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">bloomberg.com/green</a>.

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