Business Leadership

Major companies across the economy are demonstrating climate leadership by reducing their emissions, developing innovative low-carbon technologies, and supporting more ambitious government policies.

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Public Workshop: Developing Industrial Benchmarks
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Bringing Lessons in Low-carbon Innovation to Rio+20
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Evaluating Corporate Influence on the Climate Debate
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Promoting Clean-Tech Innovation for Low-Carbon Growth
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2012 Climate Leadership Conference
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The Business Behind Low-Carbon Solutions
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Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market

Climate change—and efforts to mitigate it—are creating an increasingly uncertain future for businesses. The long-term effects of a warming climate are enormously difficult to predict. In the near term, however, new policies, technologies, and market preferences are already altering the …

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From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Best Business Practices in Energy Efficiency

In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a …

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Innovating through Alliance: A Case Study of the DuPont–BP Partnership on Biofuels

This case study on DuPont and BP’s partnership on advanced biofuels aims to provide insights into how industry alliances can deliver innovation and new technologies in an accelerated fashion. In June of 2006, DuPont and BP announced a partnership to …

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A Survey of Corporate Energy Efficiency Strategies

This paper summarizes the results of a 2009 survey of corporate energy efficiency strategies, conducted by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Forty-eight companies, ranging in size from $8 billion to $99 billion in revenues, completed the survey. Key …

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