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CORPORATE RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE:
ACHIEVING EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS THROUGH REGULATION, SELF-REGULATION AND
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
Edited by Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
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PRAISE
"This book is particularly important since it addresses the corporate
sector, a major stakeholder in tackling the challenge of climate
change."
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Director-
General, TERI, India
"Captains of industry are the key to the solution of global warming.
This book helps define rules that will help them to lead, rather than
oppose, the actions that are needed."
James Hansen, Columbia Earth Institute
"... the current financial crisis means that we must now develop
business models for growth driven by a low-carbon economy. This new
work is a valuable contribution to guiding us further in meeting that
challenge."
Bjorn Stigson, President, World Business Council for Sustainable
Development
"The climate change problem demands an imaginative and analytical
response – vision and data, conviction and calm rationality ... Many
minds need to lend a hand. Many of those that you would want help from
are represented in this book."
James Cameron, Vice-Chairman, Climate Change Capital
"If you are a corporate executive searching for strategies to address
climate change, this book is for you. If not, this book is still for
you. Climate change represents a market shift that will alter
virtually every sector of the economy. And, to deal with this shift,
you need the sound information and analysis that is found within these
pages ... This is a must for the desk of every corporate climate
strategist."
Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise,
University of Michigan
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CORPORATE RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE:
ACHIEVING EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS THROUGH REGULATION, SELF-REGULATION AND
ECONOMIC INCENTIVES
Edited by Rory Sullivan
356 + viii pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-08-2 |
Published 24 November 2008 | List price: GBP40.00 EUR60.00 USD75.00
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Given the scale of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that are
seen as necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change, policy
action is likely to result in a complete reshaping of the world
economy. The consequences are not confined to 'obvious' sectors such
as power generation, transport and heavy industry; virtually every
company's activities, business models and strategies will need to be
completely rethought. In addition, beyond their core business
activities, companies have the potential to make important
contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the
allocation of capital, through innovation and the development of new
technologies, and through their influence on the actions taken by
governments on climate change.
"Corporate Responses to Climate Change" has been written at a crucial
point in the climate change debate, with the issue now central to
economic and energy policy in many countries. The book analyses
current business practice and performance on climate change, in the
light of the dramatic changes in the regulatory and policy environment
over the last five years. More specifically, it examines how climate
change-related policy development and implementation have influenced
corporate performance, with the objective of using this information to
consider how the next stage of climate change policy – regulation,
incentives, voluntary initiatives – may be designed and implemented in
a manner that delivers the real and substantial reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions that will be required in a timely manner,
while also addressing the inevitable dilemmas at the heart of climate
change policy (e.g. how are concerns such as energy security to be
squared with the need for drastic reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions? Can economic growth be reconciled with greenhouse gas
emissions? Can emissions reductions be delivered in an economically
efficient manner?).
The book focuses primarily on two areas. First, how have companies
actually responded to the emerging regulatory framework and the
growing political and broader public interest in climate change? Have
companies reduced their greenhouse gas emissions and by how much? Have
companies already started to position themselves for the transition to
a low-carbon economy? Does corporate self-regulation – unilateral
commitments and collective voluntary approaches – represent an
appropriate response to the threat presented by climate change? What
are the barriers to further action? Second, the book examines what the
key drivers for corporate action on climate change have been:
regulation, stakeholder pressure, investor pressure. Which policy
instruments have been effective, which have not, and why? How have
company actions influenced the strength of these pressures?
"Corporate Responses to Climate Change" is a state-of-the-art analysis
of corporate action on climate change and will be essential reading
for businesses, policy-makers, academics, NGOs, investors and all
those interested in how the business sector is and should be dealing
with the most serious environmental threat faced by our planet.
CONTENTS
Part I: Introduction
1 Introduction
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
2 Corporate greenhouse gas emissions management: the state of play
Rory Sullivan, Rachel Crossley and Jennifer Kozak, Insight Investment,
UK
Part II: Public policy: regulation, economic incentives and voluntary
programmes
3 The effectiveness of climate change policy as an investment driver
in the power sector
William Blyth, Chatham House and Oxford Energy Associates, UK, and
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
4 The influence of climate change regulation on corporate responses:
the case of emissions trading
Ans Kolk and Jonatan Pinkse, University of Amsterdam Business School,
The Netherlands
5 CDM and its development impact: the role and behaviour of the
corporate sector in CDM projects in Indonesia
Takaaki Miyaguchi and Rajib Shaw, Kyoto University, Japan
6 Encouraging innovation through government challenge programmes: a
case study of PV-based boats
Olga Fadeeva and Johannes Brezet, TU Delft and Cartesius Institute,
The Netherlands, and Yoram Krozer, University of Twente and Cartesius
Institute, The Netherlands
7 The role of voluntary industry-government partnerships in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions: a case study of the USEPA Climate Leaders
programme
Jeffrey Apigian, Clark University, USA
8 Ten years of the Australian Greenhouse Challenge: real or illusory
benefits?
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
9 The Mexico Greenhouse Gas Program: corporate responses to climate
change initiatives in a 'non-Annex I' country
Leticia Ozawa-Meida, SEMARNAT, Mexico, Taryn Fransen, World Resources
Institute, Mexico, and Rosa Maria Jimenez-Ambriz, CESPEDES, Mexico
Part III: Non-state actors and their influence on corporate climate
change performance
10 The Climate Group: advancing climate change leadership
Jim Walker, The Climate Group, UK
11 Climate protection partnerships: activities and achievements
Oliver Salzmann, Ulrich Steger and Aileen Ionescu-Somers, IMD,
Switzerland
12 The evolution of UK institutional investor interest in climate change
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK, and Stephanie Pfeifer,
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, UK
13 Reporting on climate change: the case of Lloyds TSB
Andrea B. Coulson, University of Strathclyde, UK
Part IV: Corporate responses and case studies
14 Curbing greenhouse gas emissions on a sectoral basis: the Cement
Sustainability Initiative
Timo Busch, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Howard Klee, World Business
Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland, and Volker H.
Hoffmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
15 Novartis: demonstrating leadership through emissions reductions
Helen Mathews, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Claus-Heinrich
Daub, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland
16 Climate change solutions at Vancity Credit Union
Ian Gill and Amanda Pitre-Hayes, Vancity, Canada
17 The Pole Position project: innovating energy-efficient pumps at
Grundfos
Joan Thiesen and Arne Remmen, Aalborg University, Denmark
18 Responding to climate change: the role of organisational learning
processes
Marlen Arnold, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
19 Fasten your seatbelts: European airline responses to climate change
turbulence
Christian Engau, David Sprengel and Volker H. Hoffmann, ETH Zurich,
Switzerland
Part V: Closing sections
20 From good to best practice on emissions management
Ryan Schuchard, Raj Sapru and Emma Stewart, Business for Social
Responsibility, USA, and Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
21 Do voluntary approaches have a role to play in the response to
climate change?
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
22 Setting a future direction for climate change policy
Rory Sullivan, Insight Investment, UK
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