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Strategic Issues and Risks facing Business due to Climate
Change
- Business significance of climate change - role of the corporate sector
- Strategic issues and risks facing business in response to Climate Change.
- Calculating and communicating climate impact of products
- Green Energy – replacing energy , inefficient technologies and life styles
- Framework for managing related compliance and reporting obligations
- National guidelines and Policy for sustainable energy,
supply strategy issues, and climate change mitigation.
Communication Initiatives
- Effective processes for capture and reporting of reliable and verifiable GHG and environmental data.
- Measuring your carbon footprint and Carbon- neutral
campaign
- GRI, Emission Inventory and sustainability Reporting
system
- Role of Media and NGOs – Raise Rublic awareness to
change Public attitudes and culture towards limiting
climate change.
- Challenge of communicating climate change to stateholders
- Measuring and benchmarking climate impact and
reputational risk
Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism ( CDM)
- Present status of Kyoto Protocol
- GHG Market – Climate Exchange and carbon trading the
financial imperative
- CDM – An effective Business Model
- CDM India – Development of CDM Projects, Financing and
Benefits
- Technology transfer, foreign direct and portfolio Investments
Case Studies of companies adapting to climate change
- Product life- cycle emissions
- Reducing carbon and saving on energy bills
- Carbon Accountability in the construction and building
trade
- Getting Suppliers to roll back CO2
- Corporate reporting on green house issues
- Eco- innovation and quality upgradation in Food Processing
industry.
- Carbon risk coverage and weather Insurance
Case Studies of companies implementing PROACTIVATE
- Pricing natural capital in their balance sheets
- Radicaly increasing energy efficiency
- Opting for minimalist designs
- Adopting closed loop and zero waste systems
- Capturing carbon and soaking it
- Turning to renewables - developing markets for biofuels
- Investing in green issues
- Vigorously pursuing market driven solutions - developing
carbon market
- Activating women and children to drive change
- Training staff to eco-innovate
- Executing the change
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