Overview
What are the key causes and elements of business confusion about climate change science? How has climate change science influenced the behavior of the business and finance sectors? What role could improved flows of climate change science — including integrated models of physical and economic costs and benefits – have in encouraging businesses not only to take voluntary action but also to cooperate in shaping a fair regulatory response commensurate with the problem? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues to help generate strategies designed to highlight the implications of climate science for business.
Participants
Edward Bass
John Bodt
Carlos Brandão
Susan Crown
Fred Danforth
William Ellis
Tom Failla
Jesse Fink
Bradford Gentry
Leonard Hagen
David Hawkins
Benjamin Hill
Carl Knobloch
Richard Kroon
William Kunkler
Clayt Lauter
Amory Lovins
Mindy Lubber
Glenn Maltais
Bill Marson
Lauren McGregor
Samuel Missimer
Kevin Palmer
Bruce Phillips
Robert Repetto
Brian Rice
James Rogers
Auden Schendler
Mark Schwartz
John Scurci
Mark Stoler
Stephen Susman
Larry Toole
Wood Turner
Actions
News & Events
- September 20, 2006 - Marsh Inc, Ceres and the Yale School of Forestry announce at the Clinton Global Initiative that they will commit $1.2 million over four years to create the Sustainable Governance Forum, a leadership development program that will prepare corporate directors for the business risks of climate change. The Forum, which will educate over 200 board members from Fortune 1000 companies, has developed, in part, out of recommendations for actions proposed at the Yale F&ES 2005 Conference on Climate Change.Forum, Sept 21, 2006.
Press release for day 1 of Clinton Global Initiative - Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres, discusses corporate governance and climate change at Yale F&ES, March, 2006 - Video 48 minutes.
Recent Discussions
- Eileen Claussen presents an Agenda for Climate Action
- The importance of climate change to major corporations
- New research casts doubt on a key climate change mitigation strategy
- Welcome from Gus Speth
- What do you think of climate change action through shareholder pressure on corporations?
- Metrics for measuring success
1 comment
April 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Richard Jordan
The US partners of the UN Global Compact just held a meeting on climate change — very important network, including NGOs.
As chairman of the Conference for 3000 NGOs on Climate Change at the UN from 5-7 September, I will be actively working with corporations-private sector on input for and follow-up to the conference.
Richard Jordan