Climate change, clean power and sustainability figure prominently in the current U.S. presidential election campaign, but with striking contrasts. They have high visibility in the Democratic Party camp and are conspicuous by their near absence in the Republican Party speeches. Yet, climate change and the responses to its ill effects could bring about “an educational moment” for the general public and stay around in policy debates well beyond the election, according to Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics Eric Orts . Moving away from Barack Obama’s policies on climate change would come with stiff costs, said Orts, who is also faculty director of the school’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL). The business opportunities in combating climate change will also be hard to ignore, while those that prop up the coal industry will be counterproductive, said Gary Survis, venture partner for New York City-based Insight Venture Partners and also senior fellow at IGEL.…