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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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Adapting to Climate Change: A New Frontier for Business
The past several years have seen a steady transformation of business attitudes and behavior on climate change. Faced with the prospect of new regulations, increased pressure from shareholders and changing consumer demands, many companies are developing comprehensive corporate strategies to …
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Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
This report outlines a sensible business approach to analyzing and adapting to the physical risks of climate change. It focuses on a critical first step in assessing these climate impacts: understanding the potential risks to business and the importance of …
A Climate of Change: Manufacturing Must Rise to the Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change
This article originally appeared in US Industry Today, September/October 2007 Recent months have seen an explosion of activity on climate change, to the point where it is now almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading about a …