Zach WhitlockBiography
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Hello! Welcome to my page. 

I am a climate policy researcher whose interests span corporate sustainability initiatives, discourse analysis, and extractive industries. Most recently, I have been working on the implications of oil and gas extraction on local communities, focusing on government revenues and public investment, as well as on natural disaster insurance and critical minerals.  

I view climate mitigation as a whole-of-society project that requires building new institutions that are robust across generations. A narrow or discrete focus on technological innovation, the private sector, or public programs fails to account for how entrenched carbon-intense systems of extraction are to modern life.  

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me over email, Bluesky, or LinkedIn with questions on my work or perspectives. Thanks for visiting!    
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