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Impact of climate change issues on businesses : an action plan using a corporate governance approach

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Vijaya Thyil, Victoria Wise
Business globally are readying themselves for wide-ranging impacts as they transition towards a low carbon footprint economy. This paper discusses the major impacts for the firm due to the move to a low-carbon footprint system. In doing so it highlights the crucial link between opportunities, costs, risks and structural changes faced by firms, and presents a framework for managing the complex, multi-pronged impacts. The paper provides a conceptual model that will assist decision-makers to deal with risk management or bottom-line protection issues as well as exploiting the business opportunity the new regulatory environment will produce. The model argues for a holistic corporate governance mechanism, with responsibility and accountability of climate change risk management placed with the board of directors and senior management.

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Journal

International journal of global environmental issues

Volume

12

Issue

1

Pagination

91 - 104

Publisher

Inderscience

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

ISSN

1466-6650

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Inderscience

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