Managing climate change business risks and consequences : leadership for global sustainability / edited by James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel in collaboration with Neil Washington, Matt Marovich, and Kyle Miller. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Global sustainability through business . - Palgrave series on global sustainability. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate Change and Risk Management: Framing the Inquiry into risk management and climate change / Asking the right questions: basic concepts of risk management for developing adaptation and mitigation strategies / Key Players Managing the Risks of Climate Change: The primary insurance industry's role in managing climate change risks and opportunities / Competitive advantages and risk management: capitalizing on the economic benefits of sustainability / Climate change impact on procurement: risks and opportunities / Business and climate change adaptation: contributions to climate change governance / Sustainability reporting's role in managing climate change risks and opportunities / Climate change risk and informal recycling: an NGO and private sector partnership in Bogotá / Going Forward-- Emerging Questions and Desirable Evolution in Global Sustainability Risk Management: Managing the risks of carbon sequestration: liability concerns and alternatives / Taking actions to deal with climate change risks and opportunities: harnessing superordinate identities to promote knowledge transfer and creation / Final thoughts / James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel; Sujit Sur -- Lára Jóhannsdóttir, James Wallace, and Aled Jones; Jonathan Smith ad Efrain Quiros, III; Lydia Bals; Nicole Kranz; Ann Brockett and Zabihollah Rezaee; Candace A. Martinez -- Elizabeth Lokey Aldrich, Cassandra Koerner, Joseph C. Perkowski, and Travis L. McLing; Aimée A. Kane and Alison L. Stelle; James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel. Part I. 1. 2. Part II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11.

"Climate change can have major impacts on business (and business can have major impacts on climate change). Risk management is a valuable way of framing climate change issues and for grappling with the possible consequences of climate change. The key players involved in managing the risks associated with climate change have learned a lot about how to protect themselves and others that all businesses can learn from, and those same key players are taking and can take ever-more valuable steps in the future not only to protect themselves and others from the negative consequences of climate change, but also to reduce and reverse the impact of the driving forces that are creating climate change. Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability--climate change--this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species--a challenge we must meet on behalf of all generations and all species"--

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Business--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes--Risk management.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Global warming--Economic aspects.
Sustainable development.
Business--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Risk management.
Global warming--Economic aspects.
Sustainable development.
Développement durable.

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