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Climate change winners and losers New articles take a look	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Interesting piece from Makower on some recent articles moving the climate conversation to more ... prosaic concerns. That is to say: who's gonna make out? The first is in the Harvard Business Review, and outlines these risks to businesses: ... regulatory risk (the impact of emissions caps or carbon taxes); supply chain risk (disruptions or price hikes in materials or energy, in many cases because of the huge distances such supplies are shipped); product and technolo ...
Topics: business, climate, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Paying It Forward U.S. investors worth $4 trillion beg feds for climate action		20 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Paying It Forward U.S. investors worth $4 trillion beg feds for climate action For a long time now, the Bush administration has said it can't possibly take action on climate change because it will harm the economy. Now the economy is all like, "Hurt me, baby, please." Yet another business-oriented coalition -- this one including investors who manage a combined $4 trillion -- is ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Plights of the Roundtable International business group joins chorus begging for emissions regulations		22 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Plights of the Roundtable International business group joins chorus begging for emissions regulations Yet another group of businesses has come out in support of international greenhouse-gas regulation. The Global Roundtable on Climate Change, which includes nearly 100 large companies, issued a statement Tuesday espousing an increasingly common belief: "If we delay too long in beginning the changeover to increasingly de-carboni ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Premature Surrenderation Fighting the new defeatism on climate change		20 Feb 2007	Daily Grist

Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Bed Bath & Behind Ceres publishes list of top 10 industry laggards on climate change		14 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Bed Bath & Behind Ceres publishes list of top 10 industry laggards on climate change Which companies will be caught with their pants down when greenhouse-gas regulations hit? Environmental investment group Ceres has released a list of 10 U.S. corporations that shareholders say have failed to adequately plan for the climate-changed future. The list includes Wells Fargo, urged to reduce emissions from financial clients, and big-b ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Business leaders honed in on climate, carbon, and concrete at Davos	John Elkington, Mark Lee	09 Feb 2007	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 09 Feb 2007
Topics: business, climate, Full Disclosure, Switzerland (all these topics)

Now Who's a Moonbeam? On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real		05 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Now Who's a Moonbeam? On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real Heeding a call from French President Jacques Chirac, 46 nations are backing a plan to create a powerful new U.N. Environment Organization that could police climate offenders. Egregious emitters Russia, China, India, and the U.S. didn't leap up and down volunteering to j ...
Topics: business, California, climate, environmental justice, France, news, politics, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Down in Front Business is already acting on the climate threat -- and waiting for Washington to catch up	Andrew J. Hoffman	01 Feb 2007	Soapbox
You don't need to look for receding glaciers or pore over the latest IPCC report to know that climate change is already happening. Just talk to Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. Captains of industry want to know what's up ahead. Photo: iStockphoto The company relies on ice bridges to move equipment and materials through the northern regions of Canada. Last winter, ho ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Upward Mobility ExxonMobil says it's taking climate change seriously -- seriously		29 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Upward Mobility ExxonMobil says it's taking climate change seriously -- seriously Guess who said this about climate change: "We know enough now -- or, society knows enough now -- that the risk is serious and action should be taken." No, not some dirty hippie, but an executive from oil behemoth ExxonMobil. (Ow, our jaw!) Greenhouse-gas reduction has become a theme of Exxon's advertising, and the company is p ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

We're All Alright Blair, McCain lead pep rally at World Economic Forum		29 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
We're All Alright Blair, McCain lead pep rally at World Economic Forum Let's start the week with a bit of rhetorical optimism. In a high-profile speech this weekend at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- a gathering of leading politicians and businessfolk from around ye olde globe -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a hopeful outlook for climate action. "I believe we are potentially on the verge of a bre ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Davos and Goliath This year, World Economic Forum can't avoid climate change		24 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Davos and Goliath This year, World Economic Forum can't avoid climate change Every year, some 2,000 business and political leaders descend on snowy Davos, Switzerland, for an unrivaled meeting of minds and money. As the five-day World Economic Forum kicks off today, attendees will tackle an issue of great concern: how to get Bono's autograph. Also, some of them will address climate change. In a survey, twice as many participants as ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Tip Tip Hurray! Senate bills and corporate coalition push Washington toward climate action	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Jan 2007	Muckraker
Will January 2007 prove to be a tipping point for U.S. climate-change policy? Already this month we've seen a barrage of high-profile activity -- and President Bush hasn't even given his State of the Union address yet. Are we at a tipping point? First there was a rapid-fire succession of four major climate-change bills proposed in the Senate, all of which call for mand ...
Topics: business, climate, greenish companies, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

They Grow Up So Fast Corporations join green groups to push for U.S. climate action		19 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
They Grow Up So Fast Corporations join green groups to push for U.S. climate action Quivering under the bed was an option, but 10 major corporations have bravely formed a coalition with four U.S. green groups instead, calling for a national limit on carbon emissions. Their aim is a 10 to 30 percent cut over the next 15 years, using a cap-and-trade system that would allow over-emitters to buy credits from those who fall under the ca ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives		10 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Dude, You're Gettin' a Conscience PC honcho Michael Dell announces new green initiatives Amidst the energy-sucking glitz of Las Vegas, PC magnate Michael Dell announced that his eponymous company is greening up, and encouraged others to follow suit. Dell addressed two green-itiatives at an International Consumer Electronics Show speech yesterday. The first, a new partnership with carbon-offset provider Ca ...
Topics: business, climate, green living, news, recycling (all these topics)

Strike It Richard Richard Branson chats about embracing ethanol and slashing airplane emissions	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Does a music mogul who signed the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson have what it takes to make a pop star out of biofuels? Sir Richard. Earlier this fall, publicity-chasing British entrepreneur Richard Branson made a $3 billion bet that he could do just that -- and help solve the climate crisis to boot -- via Virgin Fuels, a new company in his wide-ranging Virgin Gr ...
Topics: biofuels, business, climate, energy, ethanol, greening biz operations, Richard Branson (all these topics)

A Royal Al-ly Gore lends heft to sustainable-business campaign launched by Prince Charles		05 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
A Royal Al-ly Gore lends heft to sustainable-business campaign launched by Prince Charles We were so excited when we saw that Prince was recruiting Al Gore for a green campaign. We loved thinking about the velveteen rocker and the ex-veep partying like it was 1999 again. But alas, it was gently pointed out to us that it's Prince Charles who's brought Gore on board, convincing him to join a project called Accounting ...
Topics: business, climate, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Snowe and Rockefeller on the 'uncertainty' agenda Senators send letter to ExxonMobil	Andrew Dessler	04 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Today's Wall Street Journal printed a letter from Senators Snowe and Rockefeller to ExxonMobil (here) along with an editorial about the letter (here). In the letter, Snowe and Rockefeller ask ExxonMobil to stop perpetuating the uncertainty agenda (which they refer to as the 'obfuscation agenda'). The letter is similar in many respects to a letter sent to Exxon by the British Royal Society. The editorial is a broadside against the Senators. How dare they write that l ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism, politics (all these topics)

The Trillion-Dollar Question What's the real cost of climate change, and where do all those numbers come from?	Kate Galbraith	16 Nov 2006	Main Dish
As serious governments shift the climate-change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause -- and how much measures to fight it might cost. It is the trillion-dollar question, and figures are flying everywhere. But what do these numbers re ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

No More McDonald's For Them French prime minister proposes an import tax on Kyoto-averse countries		14 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
No More McDonald's For Them French prime minister proposes an import tax on Kyoto-averse countries We'd like to preface this story on French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin with an amuse bouche: his name always makes us think of that Singing Nun tune from the '60s, which led us to a lyrics site today, which featured the offer, "Send the Singing Nun ringtones to your cell phone." What a world we live in. OK, ...
Topics: business, climate, France, news (all these topics)

Morgan Bang for the Buck Morgan Stanley will invest $3 billion in carbon trading and offset projects		27 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Morgan Bang for the Buck Morgan Stanley will invest $3 billion in carbon trading and offset projects Investment giant Morgan Stanley announced today that it will invest $3 billion in carbon trading and offset projects over the next five years. Expecting a rush to purchase offsets as the Kyoto Protocol's 2012 deadline approaches, the bank is playing the middleperson -- buying offsets from emissions-cutting projects now, with the pla ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

We Put the 'Pro' in 'Procrastinate' Twiddling our thumbs on climate change could cost $20 trillion a year by 2100		16 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
We Put the "Pro" in "Procrastinate" Twiddling our thumbs on climate change could cost $20 trillion a year by 2100 Failure to fight global warming could cost $20 trillion a year by the end of the century, says a new study from Tufts University -- and that doesn't include costs of biodiversity loss or unpredictable events like the shutdown of the Gulf Stream. That enormous figure -- representing the cost of doing ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Biz Bang Big business increasingly acting to fight climate change		19 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Biz Bang Big business increasingly acting to fight climate change More and more big companies are waking up and smelling the climate change, recognizing that it could have a notable impact on their bottom lines, according to the fourth annual survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project. The CDP, backed by large institutional investors, got responses from 360 of the Financial Times 500 major companies; 87 percent said climate change rep ...
Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics)

Foot the Bill Getting a toehold on your company's climate footprint	Joel Makower	15 Aug 2006	Toiling Point
"What's your company's climate footprint?" It's a hot question these days -- one being asked increasingly of companies by customers, investors, activists, regulators, and others. OK, it may not be exactly that question, but it's probably in some form, like, "What's your company doing to reduce its climate impacts?" Or, "How do you call yourself environmentally responsible w ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

The Writing on the Wal-Mart Al Gore takes his green message to Wal-Mart headquarters	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Jul 2006	Muckraker
Picture Al Gore standing in a modest auditorium deep in America's heartland before an exultant crowd of Wal-Mart employees, comparing their campaign to lighten the company's environmental footprint to the Allies' righteous struggle in World War II. This after Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, likened the giant retailer's greening efforts to the wo ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, business, climate, Muckraker, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Covering Their Assets Insurers must address climate change or face trouble, big U.K. firm warns		06 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Covering Their Assets Insurers must address climate change or face trouble, big U.K. firm warns Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest insurance market, yesterday warned U.K. insurers that they are in danger of being "swept away" by future global warming-related financial claims. In a report punchily titled "Climate Change, Adapt or Bust," Lloyd's encouraged insurers to adjust coverage-c ...
Topics: business, climate, London, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

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