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Thursday 8 October 2015

Climate change: themes range from corporate social responsibility and self-regulation... to governmental intervention and technological solutions

Certain sections of the economy have been viewing climate change sceptically:
Futures Forum: "Climate science has been dragged into the American-style culture wars that are turning British intellectual life into a battlefield."
Futures Forum: Climate change: "Conservatives don’t hate climate science. They hate the left’s climate solutions"
Futures Forum: "A Coal-Fired Dream World" >>> "... a growing realization that the productive potential of machinery driven by coal was limitless. Railroad development made possible by coal and startling new inventions like the telegraph, seemed suddenly to make village life and local dreams irrelevant."
Futures Forum: Climate change: Ralph Nader and the 'Kingpins of Carbon'

However, in general, the corporate world is taking climate change very seriously:
Futures Forum: Climate change: businesses wake up to climate action
Futures Forum: East Devon Business Forum: "Something to think about for the next council."
Futures Forum: Climate change: perceptions and solutions: a summary
Futures Forum: Transition Network: Sir David King on climate change as "the biggest diplomatic challenge of all time"

The FT has been doing so for some time:
Futures Forum: An uncertain future for fracking...
Futures Forum: From the 'fossil-fuel age' to an international carbon tax
Futures Forum: "I believe humanity is making risky bets in the climate casino ... But it is always possible that humanity will wake up and make the needed investments in rapid change, driven by the magic of the market and technological innovation."
Futures Forum: Climate change sceptics 'are losing their grip'

Futures Forum: Climate change: CO2 levels hit 400 ppm
Futures Forum: “Energiewende” – energy transformation... reducing dependence on fossil fuels and changing the role of the large traditional utilities.

This is a recent overview of the issues from the FT perspective:

FINANCIAL TIMES

FT Topics: Climate Change
G7 country leaders aim to phase out fossil fuel emissions this century by supporting the reduction of emissions by 40 to 70 per cent by 2050.

In anticipation for the major global Paris Climate Conference in December 2015, we have selected a range of articles covering themes that are likely to arise in relation to the goal of combating climate change effectively. These range from corporate social responsibility and self-regulation to governmental intervention and technological solutions.

You can follow the latest articles on climate change in our in-depth section.
RETHINKING BUSINESS SERIES - CLIMATE CHANGE
Paris | 08 December 2015


Climate change from the Financial Times

See also:
Ethics & Business. Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Ethical Instruments | Fernando Salvetti - Academia.edu
Environmental governance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doing Well by Doing Good: The Grand Illusion - ResearchGate
Corporate “Big Green” Behind the Climate Change Marches | Nonprofit Quarterly

And:
Futures Forum: Climate change: "The very idea that we - as atomized individuals - could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate is objectively nuts."
Futures Forum: Climate Change: and growth on Radio 4
Futures Forum: Climate change: and 'environmental populism'

And:
Futures Forum: Climate change: "Government is the problem, not the solution" >>> "The best way to combat anthropogenic global warming is for government to stop doing stuff like actively subsidizing or mandating sprawl, subsidizing long-distance shipping and transportation, and subsidizing energy consumption."

And:
Futures Forum: Climate change: perceptions and solutions: a summary
Futures Forum: Climate change: appealing to values and identity >>>>> From 'worthy but dull' to re-framing the debate >>>>>>> It's about: pollution >>> inter-generational debt >>> conserving the local landscape
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