Is There a Moral Response to the Climate Crisis?

Terrence Keeley, author of the best-selling book, “Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG To Impact Investing” (Columbia University Press, 2023), will give a talk at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on September 9, at 4 p.m. His talk is free and open to the public.

Keeley will discuss the subject of his book, which canvasses the demanding roles business and finance need to play to promote the environmental and social outcomes as envisioned by Robert Shiller’s Good Society. Though sympathetic to the objectives of stakeholder capitalism — understood to be synchronous with optimal, long term economic growth — this book argues we are not now on track to achieve the necessary conditions for human flourishing in the 21st century.

“Sustainable” reveals how Catholic Social Teaching could create an optimistic future where individuals, corporations, investors, NGOs, and policy makers coalesce around a clear agenda for more inclusive, more sustainable economic growth.

In addition to being a best-selling author, Keeley is the CEO and CIO of 1PointSix LLC, an advisory firm he founded to help institutional and high net worth investors optimize the amount of impact in their investment portfolios. In 2021, Keeley was selected as a Global Knowledge Broker by CIO Magazine.

Prior to his private sector career, Keeley worked for President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors, where he wrote speeches for the Chairman, Dr. Murray Weidenbaum. He co-chaired Speaker Paul Ryan’s Financial Advisory Committee from 2015 to 2019. As an adjunct to his work at Sovereign Trends, Keeley has been a lecturer in business and ethics at more than a dozen universities as well as a Bloomberg TV contributing editor. Mr. Keeley serves or has served on advisory boards for the Asian Development Bank, the University of Notre Dame, and Oxford University (Christ Church).

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is at 18 James Lane, East Hampton.