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- Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This systematic review synthesized the entire body of research on business adaptation to climate change, reviewing thousands of studies from academia and practice. Provides a helpful list of the risks and opportunities for many of the leading sectors dealing with climate change. Includes case studies on how several of the world's leading companies are adapting to climate change. Identifies tools to help businesses assess risks, evaluate opportunities and implement adaptation options....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2009. Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Leadership, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Business Responses to Climate Change Regulation in Canada and Germany: Lessons for MNCs from Emerging Economies
This article proposes a novel mapping of the complex relationship between business ethics and regulation, by suggesting five distinct ways in which business ethics and regulation may intersect. The framework is applied to a comparative case study of business responses to climate change regulation in Canada and Germany, both signatories to the Kyoto Protocol. Both countries represent distinctly different approaches which yield significant lessons for emerging economies. We also analyze the specific role of large multinational corporations in this process....
Citation: Eberlein, Burkard and Matten, Dirk. 2009. Business Responses to Climate Change Regulation in Canada and Germany: Lessons for MNCs from Emerging Economies (2009). Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 86, No. 2. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681026
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business
- Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: A Compendium of Canada's Participation
This report seeks to compile all Canadian activity in CO2 capture and storage (CCS)....
Citation: Legg, John F. and Frank R. Campbell. 2006. Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: A Compendium of Canada's Participation. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Clean Coal: A Compendium of Canada's Participation
This report seeks to compile all Canadian activity in clean coal technology (CCT)....
Citation: Campbell, Frank R. and John F. Legg. 2007. Clean Coal: A Compendium of Canada's Participation. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective
The report 'Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective' provides an overview of research in the field of climate change impacts and adaptation over the past five years, as it relates to Canada. [The] summary presents common themes of the report, as well as highlights from individual chapters....
Citation: Warren, Fiona J. and Natural Resources Canada. 2004. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective. Government of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Health, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Considering Nuclear in a Time of Climate Change
The nuclear power industry is touted as a primary strategy to fight climate change. We review this statement in light of our nuclear screen....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2007. Considering Nuclear in a Time of Climate Change. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change
- Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting
Within Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting 2008 you'll find accessible data on how FT500 companies currently calculate and verify their absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their carbo...
Citation: Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting. 2008. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy - Regulation
- Credit Risk, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Canada’s Banks and the Fight Against Global Warming
Canada’s Big Five banks have acknowledged the significance of global climate change. While it’s hard to exaggerate the need to move quickly towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actions undertake...
Citation: Credit Risk, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Canada's Banks and the Fight Against Global Warming. 2008. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change
- Electronic Waste Recovery Study
The scope of this document is to address enhanced EOL management of the following electronic products: computers, monitors, computer peripherals (including keyboards, printers and scanners), televisions, telephones, cell phones, stereos and rechargeable batteries....
Citation: PHA Consulting Associates. 2003. Electronic Waste Recovery Study. [Government of Canada].
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Fracking Under Pressure: The Environmental and Social Impacts and Risks of Shale Gas Development
In the first in a series on unconventional oil and gas, Dayna Linley, associate analyst, explores the impacts of shale gas development, in particular hydraulic fracturing....
Citation: Linley, Dayna. 2011. Fracking Under Pressure: The Environmental and Social Impacts and Risks of Shale Gas Development. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007
'From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007' reflects the advances made in understanding Canada's vulnerability to climate change during the past decade. Through a primarily regional approach, this assessment discusses current and future risks and opportunities that climate change presents to Canada, with a focus on human ans managed systems...
Citation: Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada. 2007. From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate. Government of Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Global Transparency: Fighting Corruption For A Sustainable Future
The primary focus of corruption studies and anti-corruption activism has been corruption within sovereign states. However, over the last twenty years ‘globalization’, the flow of money, goods, people and ideas across borders, has threatened to overwhelm the system of sovereign states....
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Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Corruption, Globalization, Leadership, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada and Japan: Sector-Specific Estimates and Managerial and Economic Implications
Many firms generate large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases when they burn fossil fuels in their production processes. In addition, production of raw materials and other inputs the firms procure for their operations also generates greenhouse gases indirectly. These direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions occur in many sectors of our economies. In this paper we first present sector-specific estimates for such greenhouse gas emissions. We then show that estimates for such sector-specific greenhouse gas emissions are often required for various types of corporate as well as public policy analyses in both domestic and international contexts....
Citation: Hayami, Hitoshi and Nakamura, Masao. [undated]. Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada and Japan: Sector-Specific Estimates and Managerial and Economic Implications. Journal of Environmental Management, Forthcoming; Sauder School of Business Working Paper. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=983362
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental
- Head in the Oil Sands? Climate Change Risks in Canada’s Oil and Gas Sector
Canada's oil and gas companies have failed to take action to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis shows that only two Canadian companies responded appropriately to the risks presented...
Citation: Head in the Oil Sands? Climate Change Risks in Canada's Oil and Gas Sector. 2007. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Resource Extraction
- High Impact Sectors. The Challenge of Reporting on Climate Change
This report, combining the wealth of data available to long-term partners GRI and ACCA, provides a unique insight into the degree to which large companies around the world have begun to disclose their GHG accounting and strategies for reduction....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and ACCA, High Impact Sectors. The Challenge of Reporting on Climate Change, GRI, 2009.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Globalization, Sustainability
- InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of minerals and metals
The mining and metals industry is well placed to contribute to the resolution of the climate change challenge. Many mining and metals companies are measuring, managing and reducing their own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. More significantly the industry is also supplying the materials needed to build a low carbon future. This latter role is less well understood and is the focus of this publication. A range of technologies exist to reduce the emissions intensity of power generation, including renewables and carbon capture and storage (CCS)....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2012. InBrief: Mining's Contribution to Sustainable Development. The role of minerals and metals. International Council on Mining & Metals
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Insurers and Climate Change: Taking Risk Management to the Next Level
Laurence Loubières, associate sustainability analyst, explores the risks and opportunities climate change presents to the insurance industry; why they should move quickly to integrate this issue into their risk management strategies and the role stakeholders play to make companies proactive instead of reactive....
Citation: Loubieres, Laurence. 2010. Insurers and Climate Change: Taking Risk Management to the Next Level. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Knowledge Forum on Business Adaptation to Climate Change
Fifty managers, academics and policy-makers shared the insight of five expert speakers at NBS' Knowledge Forum on Business Adaptation to Climate Change. The purpose of the forum was to bring the communities of research and practice together to engage in a conversation on business adaptation to climate change. A few themes emerged from the presentations and discussions throughout the day....
Citation: Backman, Charles, Natalie Slawinski, David van den Assem, Connie van der Byl, Zane Westerbeek, Erin White. 2009. Knowledge Forum on Business Adaptation to Climate Change. Knowledge Project Series.
Research Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Public Policy - Regulation
- Knowledge Priorities in Business Sustainability: Questions, Experts, and Opportunities
These knowledge priorities were identified by representatives from organizations perceived to be leading sustainability in Canada. The Leadership Council is comprised of organizations that, like sustainability issues, cut across industrial, government, and non-governmental sectors. They meet annually to identify their greatest knowledge priorities by consensus. NBS funds a systematic review of the research on two of these issues....
Citation: Research Network for Business Sustainability. 2009. Knowledge Priorities in Business Sustainability: Questions, Experts, and Opportunities.
Research Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Natural Resources Canada 2011-12: Report on Plans and Priorities
NRCan 2011-12 plans and priorities...
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2011. Natural Resources Canada 2011-12: Report on Plans and Priorities. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- No Need to Panic About Global Warming
Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true....
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Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Resource Extraction
- No Need to Panic About Global Warming [A Rebuttal]: Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change....
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Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Resource Extraction
- No Need to Panic About Global Warming [Video]
Princeton physics professor William Happer on why a large number of scientists don't believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming....
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Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Resource Extraction
- Political Risk Report 2009
Maplecroft launches it first-of-its-kind assessment of political risk at the national and sub-national site-specific level...
Citation: Political Risk Report 2009. 2009. Maplecroft.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Poverty
- Reporting the Business Implications of Climate Change in Sustainability Reports
This report presents the results of a survey on Reporting the Business Implications of Climate Change in Sustainability Reports. This is a survey to catalogue types of reporting on climate change and was conducted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and KPMG's Global Sustainability Services....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative and KPMG's Global Sustainability Services, Reporting the Business Implications of Climate Change in Sustainability Reports, GRI, 2007.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Securing Canada’s Future in a Climate-Changing World: Forum Guide
This Forum Guide provides you with background information and context for the round table discussions at the NRTEE 20th Anniversary Forum, Securing Canada’s Future in a Climate-changing World. Th ree consecutive round table discussions involving noted lea...
Citation: Securing Canada's Future in a Climate-Changing World: Forum Guide. 2008. National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Public Policy
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement
The financial sector was segmented into four categories for the purposes of developing this Sector Supplement i.e. retail banking, commercial and corporate banking, asset management and insurance, otherwise referred to as the core business lines throughout the Sector Supplement....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement,GRI, 2000-2008.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Mining and Metals Sector Supplement and Indicator Protocols Set
The mining and metals sector includes exploration, mining and primary metal processing (including smelting, recycling and basic fabrication) and covers the complete project life cycle from development through operational lifetime to closure and post-closure. The sector is diverse, and can contain companies that specialize exclusively in one part of the cycle, such as exploration companies, as well as large multi-national or vertically-integrated enterprises. Large mining groups may encompass a wide range of different mineral products in their subsidiary operating companies. Junior and mid-tier miners can also be responsible for exploration and production operations, but because of their size or business models may face particular challenges in relating to sustainability issues; they too can usefully report on these challenges through the Sector Supplement and improve their approaches. The Guidelines give reporters the opportunity to describe their own scope of operation, particularly in the boundary-setting and materiality disclosures....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Mining and Metals Sector Supplement and Indicator Protocols Set, GRI, 2000-2010.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol
The urgency and magnitude of the risks and threats to our collective sustainability, alongside increasing choice and opportunities, will make transparency about economic, environmental, and social impacts a fundamental component in effective stakeholder relations, investment decisions, and other market relations. To support this expectation, and to communicate clearly and openly about sustainability, a globally shared framework of concepts, consistent language, and metrics is required. It is the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) mission to fulfil this need by providing a trusted and credible framework for sustainability reporting that can be used by organizations of any size, sector, or location....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol, GRI, 2000-2011.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainable Development 2007-2009: Achieving Results
Achieving Results illustrates NRCan's commitment to ensuring that the development of our country's natural resources continues to become more sustainable....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2006.Sustainable Development 2007-2009: Achieving Results. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Sustainable Development Strategy 2001. Now and for the Future
The paper reflected the latest thinking on sustainable development priorities as well as the lessons learned since the initial strategy's launch in the late 1990s....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2001. Sustainable Development Strategy. Now and for the Future. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Sustainable Development Strategy 2004: Moving Forward
'Sustainable Development Strategy -- Moving Forward' demonstrates how NRCan is taking the next steps forward to optimize the contribution of natural resources to sustainable development. We will rely on the Department's core areas of expertise to focus our actions where they can make the most difference....
Citation: Natural Resources Canada. 2004. Sustainable Development Strategy: Moving Forward. Natural Resources Canada.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Development, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- The Climate Change Guide - Corporate Canada: Responsible Business Action on Climate Change
A 2007 collaboration between CBSR and Westport Innovations, the guide has been praised by corporations, NGOs and governments for its balanced information and practical business solutions to addressing...
Citation: Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR). 2007. The Climate Change Guide - Corporate Canada: Responsible Business Action on Climate Change. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business
- The Comparative Politics of Carbon Taxation
Cap and trade and carbon taxes offer the prospect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost to society than conventional regulation. Between these two market-based approaches, however, carbon taxes offer significant advantages, including transparency and predictability of costs, ease of implementation, and application to small and large sources alike. This article thus seeks to inform our understanding of the conditions under which carbon taxes are politically viable by comparing the experience of four jurisdictions: Finland and Denmark, which adopted carbon taxes; Germany, which adopted a related energy tax; and Canada, which rejected a carbon tax....
Citation: Harrison, Kathryn. 2010. The Comparative Politics of Carbon Taxation (2010). Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 507-529. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1708375
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental
- The Materiality of Climate Change and the Role of Voluntary Disclosure
Investor groups in both Canada and the U.S. have petitioned the Ontario Securities Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue statements clarifying the application of existing disclosure requirements to climate change-related risks....
Citation: Henderson, Gail Elizabeth. 2009. The Materiality of Climate Change and the Role of Voluntary Disclosure (November 30). CLPE Research Paper No. 47. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1515955
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Environment & Business, SRI/Responsible Investment
- The National Environmental Policy Act At Twenty: A Preface
This article, written on NEPA's 20th anniversary, maintains that the statute's constitution-like language conveyed the hope of a nation that the federal government could be transformed from an environmental degrader to an environmental preserver and restorer. In retrospect, its optimism seems quite unrealistic. Nevertheless, its call for productive harmony between man and nature, elimination of damage to the biosphere, and non-degradation of environmental quality sounds themes that remain relevant....
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Blumm, Michael C. 1990. The National Environmental Policy Act At Twenty: A Preface. Environmental Law, Vol. 20, pp. 447-483. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=891838
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental
- US Demilitarization and Global Warming: An Empirical Investigation of the Environmental Peace Dividend
In the paper input-output methods are used to generate ballpark empirical estimates of the implications for global warming of the projected demilitarization of the US federal budget. The impact is fou...
Citation: Heyes, Anthony, and Catherine Heyes. 1993. US Demilitarization and Global Warming: An Empirical Investigation of the Environmental Peace Dividend. Energy Policy 21 (12):1217-1224.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Economic - Environmental, Public Policy
- Water: The Next Carbon
Water, water everywhere is a phrase that may soon be forgotten. Water stress has already led to the degradation of healthy ecosystems and loss of biodiversity, thereby affecting key environmental systems such as nutrient, water and climate cycles. To gain insight on why many companies now view water as a significant material risk read "Water: The Next Carbon" by Jantzi-Sustainalytics' Kathryn Morrison....
Citation: Morrison, Kathryn. 2010. Water: The Next Carbon. Jantzi-Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
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