This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on May 18, 2026 - May 24, 2026 In November 2015, I received an unexpected telephone call from a group of institutional investors who were on their way to Paris for COP21, the 2015 UN climate change conference: they were planning to use their powers to participate in board director nominations and asked me to help by providing a list of candidates with climate-competency skills that were similar, they said, to my o