Despite growing financial losses in various business sectors from climate change, over half of the nation’s 500 largest publicly traded companies are doing a poor job of disclosing climate change risks to their investors, according to a first-ever report analyzing climate disclosure practices among S&P 500 companies last year. The Ceres/Calvert report concludes that America’s…
An international mix of businesses and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are joining forces to promote global action on climate change. This activism is of more critical importance in light of the recent report by the leading international network of climate scientists that has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human…
Source: MIT Technology Review A special report in the July/August issue of MIT’s Technology Review concludes that we can avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming if we act now. The report says that we need more effective deployment of existing energy technologies while we begin building a sustainable energy infrastructure for the future. The…
Greenbiz.com reports that in a recent MIT survey “Americans now rank climate change as the country’s most pressing environmental problem – a dramatic shift from three years ago, when they ranked climate change sixth out of 10 environmental concerns.” The survey shows that people are beginning to grasp that climate change is a real issue.…
An international report entitled Ecosystem Challenges and Business Implications, issued in November 2006, says that business and ecosystem services are inextricably linked. Companies not only affect ecosystems but also rely on them. The report identifies risks and opportunities for business based on the findings of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, a 4-year scientific study that concluded…