Has the business case for climate diminished in the last five years? At first glance, the answer feels almost too obvious. The Trump-era political zeitgeist is deeply unfavorable to anything climate related. And the language of ESG has disappeared from corporate America. But when I posed the question to investors, corporate executives, and consultants at the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Summit this week, there was no clear consensus. Some argued that the business case had become stronger.