Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue.

We face more frequent and severe weather, extreme heat, droughts, wildfires and flooding that cause profound economic damage. Rising temperatures and sea levels and storm surges threaten food security, water supplies, public health and society.

E2 recently published Billion-Dollar Losses, Trillion-Dollar Threats: The Cost of Climate Change, finding last year alone we endured $150 billion worth of damage from climate-related disasters in our country – up about 50 percent from the year before, according to NOAA.