Navigating US Climate Policy Shifts: Business Perspectives on the Endangerment Finding

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September 4, 2025

11 am - 12 pm EDT

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The potential repeal of the Endangerment Finding—and broader shifts in U.S. climate policy—are creating new uncertainties for business. Understanding these developments and their business implications is essential for companies to maintain regulatory clarity, mitigate risk, and seize opportunities.

黑料正能量 and our partner, , will share insights on the status of the Endangerment Finding, anticipated federal actions, and state-level initiatives and what these regulatory changes mean for business. The conversation will also include a Q&A to raise priority issues and gain actionable guidance tailored to your specific needs.

Join us to learn how you and your company can engage in constructive dialogue with policymakers and lead in advancing regulatory certainty, innovation, and resilience.

Scheduled Speakers

Lara Birkes, Managing Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

San Francisco

Lara is responsible for leading 黑料正能量's Climate and Nature team globally and driving the organization’s work with Member companies' impact consulting, grants, and collaborative initiatives.

Lara is a sustainability and policy professional with over fifteen years of experience managing partnerships, sustainability initiatives and policy engagement with companies, international organizations, governments, and NGOs.

Prior to 黑料正能量, Lara was Global Head of 黑料正能量 at Sonder, joining in 2020 to establish the corporate responsibility function, implementing policies to engrain responsible business practices across the company pre to post IPO.

She also serves on the Advisory Board of EQX Biome, a start-up working to mobilize financial markets to protect the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots. In 2024 Lara started hosting a web series & podcast called to raise awareness of the critical need for protection, conservation, and regeneration of biodiversity.

Lara holds a B.S. degree in International Business & Management from the University of Montana, a M.A. degree in International Trade Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California and is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow.