Republished from NPR.com By Merrit Kennedy Hundreds of businesses such as Starbucks, General Mills and Hewlett Packard are asking President-elect Donald Trump to follow through on U.S. commitments to combat climate change. They argue it's good for business. More than 360 companies and investors made their plea in an...
Republished from NYTIMES.com By Michael D. Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday tempered some of his most extreme campaign promises, dropping his vow to jail Hillary Clinton, expressing doubt about the value of torturing terrorism suspects and pledging to have...
Republished from NYTIMES.com By Mike Ives HONG KONG — You might call it a Noah’s Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets. An audacious plan to respond to climate change by building a city of floating islands in the South Pacific is moving forward, with the government of...
Republished from USAToday.com By Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano Bill Gates warned against denying climate change and pushed for more innovation in clean energy, during an event Friday at Columbia University in New York. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder joined friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett for a question-and-answer session with students. “Certain topics are so complicated...
Republished from NYTimes.com By John Schwartz A group of Republican elder statesmen is calling for a tax on carbon emissions to fight climate change. The group, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, with former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Henry M. Paulson Jr.,...
Republished from Huffingtonpost.com By Jeremy Deaton Last week, wildfires swept through Chile, fueled by hot, windy weather. The blazes claimed 11 lives, razed 1,500 homes and burned down an area of forest roughly the size of Maui. Flames filled the sky with soot and ash and rendered once-vibrant towns...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Investors are beginning to analyse their portfolios for climate change risk and carbon content as the issues rise up the investment agenda. What are their strategies for confronting the problem? In September last year Bank of England governor Mark Carney caused a...
Republished from boardagenda.com David Cooke Campaign group ClientEarth has made formal complaints against two energy companies, claiming they failed to properly address climate risk in their annual reports. David Cooke, a lawyer with ClientEarth, explains why. Pressure is building on carbon-intensive companies to disclose their climate-related risks...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Recommendations from the FSB Task Force calls on companies to disclose the effect of climate change on business strategy as well as describing boards’ oversight of climate risk. The task force charged with defining new corporate disclosures related to climate change has released...
Republished from boardagenda.com By Gavin Hinks Academics insist business leaders need to take the Paris climate change agreement seriously or increase the risks to their business models. Businesses that fail to understand that policy makers were serious about cuts to carbon usage at the Paris COP 21 meeting...