Watch: Max Bearak delivers Poynter Lecture, "Why are the rich failing the poor on climate change?"
On March 31, 2025, New York Times reporter Max Bearak delivered a lecture on how wealthy nations – and the world's most powerful companies – are failing poorer countries in climate politics and policy.
New York Times reporter Max Bearak delivered a lecture on how wealthy nations – and the world's most powerful companies – are failing poorer countries in climate politics and policy at Yale University on March 31, 2025, hosted by the Climate, Energy & Growth Initiative at the Yale Economic Growth Center, Yale Inclusion Economics, and the Poynter Fellowship.
The lecture was followed by a panel discussion with economists Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan, both of whom have conducted research that has influenced environmental policy in lower-income countries, and historian Sunil Amrith, author of The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years.