Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

 

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IS YOUR COMPANY READY FOR A ZERO-CARBON FUTURE?

by Nigel Topping

There is growing public demand for a rapid transition to a zero-carbon economy. But global protests and youth climate strikes are not enough to create change alone. Companies need to take action. Beyond the very serious threats the current crisis poses to our planet, organizations are increasingly seeing the material risks it poses to their business.

U.S. financial regulator Rostin Behnam likened the financial risks from climate change to those caused by the mortgage meltdown that led to the financial crisis of 2008.¹ And recently, AT&T—which has already lost $847 million to climate disasters—announced that they will be paying the U.S. Department of Energy to track climate-related ...