Good 4 Society
Good 4 Business Success
Facts
Climate change is a global challenge!
Business as usual would lead to global heat waves and flooding, droughts, water
scarcity, loss of biodiversity, poverty, hunger, diseases and global
refugee waves. Besides the overall impact on humanity at a local level it will also
severely affect businesses.
Next to political and societal actions, business has to act if only in its own
interest - and can turn its engagement into a successful business model.
Further links
Science & Policy & Economy
NASA Arctic Sea Ice Decline
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
EU Climate Change
Stern report
Media
Film: "The Age of Stupid"
Film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Music: "Beds are Burning" (Kofi Annan, artists)
NGO
News
Policy: Green Tax in UK?
A new green tax to be introduced next year could hit the profits and share prices of many British companies... (02/11, Fundstrategy)
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Company: Apple faces pollution storm in China
...In that case, 49 workers were hospitalised... (01/2011, FT)
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Strategy: Pricing the Planet
Understanding a company´s full exposure to energy and environmental risks... (2010, McKinsey)
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Company: Unilever
Decoupling business growth from environmental impact is possible and even cheaper than continuing business as usual, Paul Polman, CEO of Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, argued... (12/2010, EA)
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Policy: Climate change deal agreed at Cancún
...After a marathon final negotiating session, governments emerged with a deal that surprised many participants and observers, who... (12/2010, FT)
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Finance: Global investors fear climate change
The world´s largest global investors signed a statement, calling for global measures to fight climate change. This also includes the expectation for corporate disclosure of climate related risks.
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Labelling: Made in ...
...The rules will mean that if only 25% of the products are made in the EU, manufacturers cannot claim they are EU-made...(Oct2010)
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Finance: Deutsche Bank provides climate change report to its investors
Deutsche Bank is one of the big players in climate investment, with some
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Retailer: Adopt green code of conduct
Major EU retailers, including Carrefour and Tesco, have signed up to a voluntary code of consuct seeking their environmental footprint...(June10)
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Policy: EU plans measures to curb demand for natural resources
...Potocnik said the EU executive would be looking for policies that "create the economic conditions that will incentivise reduction in the demand for natural resources" by adopting a life-cycle approach (LCA) to measuring the environmental footprint of products and services. (April10)
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