Corporate responses to climate change
Subtitle: achieving emissions reductions through regulation, self-regulation and economic incentives
By: edited by Rory Sullivan.
Contributors: Sullivan, Rory, 1968-
Publisher: Greenleaf Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781906093082
Subjects: Greenhouse gas mitigation; Waste minimization; Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on; Social responsibility of business
Description: 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. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.