David G. Victor

[On corporate climate risk disclosure] The big blind spot is the physical risk of climate change.

[On recent corporate climate pledges] There is a difference between energy efficiency and this. This is looking far beyond that. Net zero does not mean efficiency; it means complete transformation, and that’s the challenge.

There’s a highly uneven response to the climate challenge from the oil and gas industry. The European companies are out in front, and the American ones—Exxon in particular—are lagging far behind.