The Business of Climate Change : Corporate Responses to Kyoto.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Introduction and overview -- 1 2003: the end of the beginning? -- 2 Down to business on climate change: an overview of corporate strategies -- 3 Organising business: industry NGOs in the climate debates -- 4 Best corporate responses to climate change: opportunities for converging climate and biodiversity protecting solutions -- Part 2 Policy instruments -- 5 Early experiences with emissions trading in the UK -- 6 Building a greenhouse gas management programme: a framework based on real-world corporate responses -- 7 Governmental and industrial responses to climate change: the case of Germany -- 8 Environmental management systems and their influence on corporate responses to climate change -- Part 3 Sector analysis -- 9 Three big Cs: climate, cement and China -- 10 Climate change and the insurance sector: its role in adaptation and mitigation -- 11 An institutional comparison of two sectoral responses to the political economy of climate change -- 12 The chemical industry's response to climate change -- 13 Multinational responses to climate change in the automotive and oil industries -- Part 4 Case studies -- 14 Becoming a first mover in green electricity supply: corporate change driven by liberalisation and climate change -- 15 Corporate responses to climate change: the case of Fortum -- 16 The Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange: a corporate sustainable development programme in New Zealand -- 17 Rent sharing in the Clean Development Mechanism: the case of the Tahumanu hydroelectric project in Bolivia -- 18 An early corporate response to climate change: a review of a US electric company-sponsored Joint Implementation pilot project -- Biographies -- Abbreviations -- Index.

On the eve of Kyoto policy implementation, this volume presents an analysis of corporate responses to the climate change issue. It describes and assesses a number of recent business approaches that will help to identify effective strategies and promote the dissemination of proactive corporate practices.

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