Business stepped up to support the Paris UN climate agreements in an unprecedented way, and ever since has been a force in moving nations and their agreements forward.

Nigel Topping, chief executive of We Mean Business, a coalition of business coalitions advocating for sustainability, told GreenBiz 16 that “business was there in an incredibly positive way,” because they now believe that taking action to stem climate change “can drive business growth.”   Moreover, the risks associated with not doing so are too extreme.

Tech companies like Yahoo! and its competitors are in a great position to push the envelope on moving corporate America to renewable energy.

After all, notes Christina Page, former global director of energy and sustainability strategy for Yahoo! (who now works for tech rival Amazon), such companies are accustomed to moving very fast and defying the laws of physics in what can be done in a given amount of time.

"The whole idea of exponential change happening with Internet companies," makes them a natural a fit for driving exponential change on addressing climate change.

The CEO of Spirae, Sunil Cherian, said the distributed energy is growing ever more popular and present as it is becoming the energy plan of choice in many communities and regions. Spirae makes software platforms to manage the disparate controls and power sources of distributed energy systems. 

Distributed energy systems are transitioning from something that has to be pushed by renewable power advocates to systems that have their own pull or demand from customers. 

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