Carl Nettleton

Carl Nettleton

CA, US
An inspirational thought leader sharing the threats climate change poses and the strategies organizations need to prepare for a future and the opportunities that might be different than in the past.

Carl Nettleton helps people and businesses understand climate change and how to move toward the future. A sought-after speaker who has worked from coast to coast and venues ranging from Rio de Janeiro to Abu Dhabi, Mr. Nettleton is a subject matter expert regarding climate, oceans, water, energy, and related topics. Through writing, speaking, analysis, facilitation, panel moderation, and project management he provides clients, readers and attendees with critical insight and strategic problem s+olving for both old and new issues.

Business associations and corporate gatherings will find special value in the messages he brings as a keynote speaker. He regularly writes for the Huffington Post, Triple Pundit, and IVN.US.

Mr. Nettleton founded Nettleton Strategies in 2007, an environmental policy firm specializing in forming complex coalitions and handling high profile issues involving government, media, business and neighborhoods. He also founded OpenOceans Global, an NGO linking people to the world's oceans. He serves on the national and California advisory councils for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national, nonpartisan group of business owners, investors and others who advocate for policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. He is also active with the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Energy and Water Committee, the international Eye on Earth initiative, and other business and environmental organizations.

Carl Nettleton helps people and businesses understand climate change and how to move toward the future. A sought-after speaker who has worked from coast to coast and venues ranging from Rio de Janeiro to Abu Dhabi, Mr. Nettleton is a subject matter expert regarding climate, oceans, water, energy, and related topics. Through writing, speaking, analysis, facilitation, panel moderation, and project management he provides clients, readers and attendees with critical insight and strategic problem s+olving for both old and new issues.

Business associations and corporate gatherings will find special value in the messages he brings as a keynote speaker. He regularly writes for the Huffington Post, Triple Pundit, and IVN.US.

Mr. Nettleton founded Nettleton Strategies in 2007, an environmental policy firm specializing in forming complex coalitions and handling high profile issues involving government, media, business and neighborhoods. He also founded OpenOceans Global, an NGO linking people to the world's oceans. He serves on the national and California advisory councils for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national, nonpartisan group of business owners, investors and others who advocate for policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. He is also active with the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Energy and Water Committee, the international Eye on Earth initiative, and other business and environmental organizations.

Insights on Carbon: Climate Change and Your Business

Who really politicized climate science: Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis? With confusion about the facts muddying the waters, understanding what we know and don't know about climate science is critical to business planning and community adaptation to address climate change. This light-hearted but laser-focused keynote takes the listener back to the mid-1800's when climate knowledge was emerging around the time of the civil war and traces progress in knowledge to the present....
Sustainability: EnvironmentEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Drought? Let's Talk Atmospheric Rivers, El Niños, La Niñas and the Role of Climate Change!

With a changing climate and more variability in precipitation patterns, understanding what's really going on with the water cycle is critical to business decision making and planning for the future. This keynote demystifies the misperceptions, reveals how advances in science are leading to better understanding of the status and future of water availability and drought. As the costs of water rise, listeners will better understand the difficult challenges water utilities face trying to...

Sustainability: EnvironmentEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

We Live in a Soup Bowl: Population and the Planet

How many people can the planet handle? Is there a conflict by our individual biological imperative to reproduce and the capacity of the planet's resources to support us? From the nexus between ISIS and the Syrian drought, to extinction and migration of plants, animals, and humans because of climate change, this keynote analyzes the underlying challenges facing humans in this century.

Format: ​45-60 minute...
Sustainability: EnvironmentEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Retreats and Offsite Meetings

Sessions facilitated by Nettleton Strategies are designed to help organizations identify key issues, clarify goals, and document priorities to successful implementation of the strategies identified. In addition to one or more facilitated sessions, a short readable and communicable report is produced. Price based on complexity of the assignment.

Format: ​Facilitated session of length and complexity to be...
Problem SolvingAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Emerging Technologies That Address the Energy-Water Nexus

The use of energy to move, treat, heat and cool water creates significant demand on power systems and often are a concurrent source of greenhouse gas emissions. Innovations at the utility, municipal, commercial, agricultural, industrial and residential levels are addressing the reduction of both energy use and emissions in water systems. The water-energy nexus, as it is known, has emerged as an important place to address green house gas emissions.

Format: ​30- 45...
Energy / Alternative EnergyEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

The People Factor: Cross Sector Integration in the Water-Energy Nexus

Governments, utilities, and big organizations in general often develop siloes or sectors that culturally evolve along the lines of their education, experience, regulations, and leadership. This frequently results in a lack of communications between the siloes. A key example of this involves the water energy nexus, where water and wastewater utilities are beginning to recognize the cost and source of energy and reduction of the concurrent greenhouse emisisons are becoming important to their...
Educational / InformativeTechnical / Specific