April 18th was a big day for climate change books. Paul Hawken’s long-awaited Project Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming came out, as did Michael Bloomberg’s and Carl Pope’s Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet. Both titles are provocative and optimistic, and both books are […]
The Conundrums of Business Adaptation to Climate Change: Why, and How Much?
This blog post was originally published by Dr. Mark C. Trexler in CSRWire, Oct. 21, 2013 (photo credits CSRWire 2013). The Biggest Unarticulated Issue In his classic study of business scenario planning, The Art of Strategic Conversation (2005), Kees van der Heijden notes that: “[M]ost companies . . . have looming somewhere at the edge […]
