Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences: Leadership for Global Sustainability: Leadership for Global Sustainability

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. Edited By James A. F. Stoner, Charles Wankel. 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, 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Framing the Inquiry into Risk Management and Climate Change....Pages 3-16 Asking the Right Questions: Basic Concepts of Risk Management for Developing Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies....Pages 17-48 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 The Primary Insurance Industry’s Role in Managing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities....Pages 51-79 Competitive Advantages and Risk Management: Capitalizing on the Economic Benefits of Sustainability....Pages 81-99 Climate Change Impact on Procurement: Risks and Opportunities....Pages 101-119 Business and Climate Change Adaptation: Contributions to Climate Change Governance....Pages 121-141 Sustainability Reporting’s Role in Managing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities....Pages 143-158 Climate Change Risk and Informal Recycling: An NGO and Private Sector Partnership in Bogotá....Pages 159-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Managing the Risks of Carbon Sequestration: Liability Concerns and Alternatives....Pages 183-205 Taking Actions to Deal with Climate Change Risks and Opportunities: Harnessing Superordinate Identities to Promote Knowledge Transfer and Creation....Pages 207-225 Final Thoughts....Pages 227-228 Back Matter....Pages 229-237 "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"-- Provided by publisher PART I CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISK MANAGEMENT * Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: Framing the Inquiry into risk management and climate change * Chapter 2: ASKING "THE RIGHT QUESTION": * Chapter 3: BASIC CONCEPTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT * PART II THE KEY PLAYERS MANAGING THE RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE * Chapter 4: RISK MANAGING INSTITUTIONS - THE INSURERS * Chapter 5: CORPORATE RISK MANAGERS - THE INSURED * Chapter 6: GOVERNMENT REGULATORS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL - RULE SETTERS, JUDGES, AND REFEREES * Chapter 7: THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING NGOS, THE PRESS - COMMENTATORS, CRITICS, AND CHEERLEADERs * SECTION III BEYOND "INSURANCE" * Chapter 8: GOING FORWARD - DESIRABLE EVOLUTION IN GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY RISK MANAGEMENT Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9780230115835, 2012