Banking/Insurance:
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www.fundnets.net
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Impact of climate change on the insurance industry. A
discussion. UK. F&C publications Report. PDF.
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www.ceres.org
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"From Risk to Opportunity: Insurer Responses to Climate
Change" - Global warming and the growing incidence of extreme
weather events pose an enormous challenge to the insurance
industry. This report focuses on the significant progress made by
insurers to develop these new products and services. Ceres, Nov 2007.
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www.summits.ncat.org
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"From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively
and Profitably Manage Climate Change"
Ceres, Aug 2006. PDF.
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www.worldwildlife.org
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"Climate Change and Insurance: An Agenda for Action in the
United States" report identifies risks for the sector, emerging
physical impacts that will likely be amplified with climate change,
and develops actions that demonstrate how insurance providers can
respond to these risks in a meaningful and responsible manner.
World Wildlife Fund and the Allianz Group, Oct 2006. PDF.
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www.resourcesaver.org
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United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative, Greening
Banking, Aug 2007. PDF.
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www.ceres.org
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"Corporate Governance and Climate Change: The Banking
Sector" Report- Jan 2008, Ceres. Plus: First-Ever Ranking of 40
Leading Banks on Climate Change Strategies.
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Carbon Markets Page...
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The U.S.'s biggest emitter is Southern Co. with annual
CO2 emissions of 172 million tons.
Carbon Monitoring for Action
carma.org
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Developing World:
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www.kpmg.com
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"Sustainable Insight" A 2008 KPMG International survey shows
that companies plan to invest heavily in so-called emerging markets,
mainly at the expense of developed economies like the U.S. and
Japan. Access to new consumers is a deciding factor in these
companies' investment choices.
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Ecosystem Services:
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www.wbcsd.org
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
The “Buy, Sell, Trade!” game is a role-playing exercise that
demonstrates the multiple benefits of preserving ecosystems for the
services that they provide. Anyone can play the game, from all parts
of society, from different positions, etc. Download the package:
trainer notes, handouts & generic PowerPoint presentation.
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Energy Efficiency Reports: see clean energy page...
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www.mckinseyquarterly.com
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'Using energy more efficiently: An interview with the Rocky
Mountain Institute's Amory Lovins' who offers suggestions to CEOs
who want to plump up the bottom line by getting their
organizations to use energy more efficiently. He also suggests that
regulators channel the power of market forces to promote more
efficient energy consumption. McKinsey Quartley. July 2008.
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searchcio.techtarget.com
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TechTarget Search-Green computing and energy efficiency
initiatives - the environmentally responsible use of computers and
related resources. IT information for CIOs, including news, tips and
other resources.
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Electronics/Computers:
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www.epeat.net
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Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, a program
of the Green Electronics Council. EPEAT is a system to help
purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and
select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their
environmental attributes.'
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www.resourcesaver.org
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Meeting Green: The Office Equipment Industry's Guide to
Managing Product Emissions. A guide to understanding the
different indoor contaminants emitted from electronic office
equipment and their health impacts.
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www.mckinseyquarterly.com
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"How IT can cut carbon emissions" McKinsey Quarterly.
Information and communications technologies will become a major
source of greenhouse gas emissions but can abate far more of them.
Oct 2008.
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www.thegreengrid.org
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The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing
energy efficiency in data centers and business computing
ecosystems.
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www.greenercomputing.com
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Greener Computing focuses on the environmental concerns of
information technology professionals, covering such topics as energy
efficiency, hazardous materials reduction, and disposal and
end-of-life issues.
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Events:
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www.ceres.org
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Ceres (“series”) is a national network of investors, environmental
organizations and other public interest groups working with
companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as
global climate change.
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Government for Business:
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www.climatevision.gov
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Climate Vision—Voluntary Innovative Sector Initiatives:
Opportunities Now, a public-private partnership initiative launched
by the Department of Energy on February 12, 2003. The program
assists industry efforts to accelerate the transition to best practices,
energy technologies, and improved processes that are cost-effective,
lower-carbon-emitting, more efficient, and more capable of
capturing, removing, or sequestering GHGs.
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www.epa.gov
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A Business Guide to U.S. EPA Climate Partnership Programs.
Evaluates the environmental and business benefits of participating in
voluntary government climate programs. PDF.
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Green Jobs: see Reports-Green Jobs below, see Jobs page as well...
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News/Magazines:
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www.greenbiz.com
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Green Biz- online news and information resource on how to align
environmental responsibility with business success. It offers more
than 8,000 resources, including daily news and feature stories,
reports, checklists, case studies, and links to organizations, technical
assistance programs, government agencies, and recognition
programs.
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www.climatebiz.com
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Climate Biz is a resource center focusing on strategies for
companies seeking to reduce their climate "footprint" while saving
money and increasing productivity, created in partnership with
Business for Social Responsibility.
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blogs.wsj.com
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Environmental Capital Blog. Daily analysis of the business of the
environment by The Wall Street Journal.
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www.enn.com
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Environmental News Network. Business News.
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www.wbcsd.org
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a
CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing
exclusively with business and sustainable development. News.
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www.sustainableindustries.com
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Sustainable Industries caters to sustainable business leaders on the
West Coast, the most dynamic region of the world for sustainable
business innovation, and beyond.
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www.triplepundit.com
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Triple Pundit is a blog about integrating people, planet, and profits
into today's businesses.
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www.iucn.org
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International Union for Conservation of Nature helps develop
conservation science, manages field projects all over the world, and
brings together players from different domains and sectors to
develop and implement policy, laws and best practice. Business
News.
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Office Greening:
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www.resourcesaver.org
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WebEx Green Guide to your Office, offers practical advice on
how your organization can address the challenges of moving
towards a greener company. PDF.
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www.globalgreen.org
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Developing Green Building Programs: A Step-By-Step Guide for
Local Governments- guidebook outlining a six-step process that local
agencies can utilize to develop their own green building programs.
Global Green USA. PDF.
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Organizations Assisting Business:
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www.climateactionprogramme.org
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Climate Action, produced by Sustainable Development
International in partnership with the United Nations Environment
Programme. Assists businesses toward carbon neutrality. On-line
book, news and resources.
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www.pewclimate.org
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Pew Center on Global Climate Change collaborates extensively
with the business community. Two primarily vehicles for business
engagement include the Center’s Business Environmental
Leadership Council (BELC) and membership in the U.S. Climate
Action Partnership.
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bsr.org
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Business for Social Responsibility BSR helps its member
companies integrate sustainability into business strategy and
operations through consulting, research, and convenings.
Headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Europe and
China, BSR is a nonprofit business association that serves its 250
member companies and other Global 1000 enterprises.
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www.bsr.org
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Business for Social Responsibility BSR Working Groups
regularly come together to address critical and emerging issues and
to promote collaborative solutions to pressing problems.
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www.wbcsd.org
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a
CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing
exclusively with business and sustainable development. The Council
provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable
development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and
to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums,
working with governments, non-governmental and
intergovernmental organizations.
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www.gemi.org
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Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) is a
non-profit organization made up of leading companies dedicated to
helping businesses foster global environmental, health and safety
with economic success.
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www.wri.org
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World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank that
goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and
improve people’s lives. WRI provides—and helps other institutions
provide—objective information and practical proposals for policy
and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound,
socially equitable development.
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theclimategroup.org
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The Climate Group is an independent, nonprofit, dedicated to
advancing business and government leadership on climate change.
Based in the UK, USA and Australia plus operate internationally.
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www.globalreporting.org
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Global Reporting Initiative's vision is that disclosure on economic,
environmental, and social performance will become as
commonplace and comparable as financial reporting, and as
important to organizational success. GRI accomplishes its vision by
publishing a Sustainability Reporting Framework (the G3) The GRI
Framework is the most widely used sustainability reporting
framework in the world and it enables the comparability of one
company’s performance against another with respect to certain
indicators. ***
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www.apolloalliance.org
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Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental, and
community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in
America to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, cut the
carbon emissions that are destabilizing our climate, and expand
opportunities for American businesses and workers.''
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www.combatclimatechange.org
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3C Initiative (Combat Climate Change) a business leader's
initiative-mission is to underline the need for urgent action by the
global community and to influence the post-Kyoto process by
demanding a global framework supporting a market-based solution
to the climate change issue. This can be achieved by getting as many
companies as possible aboard and by getting our common platform
well known and well understood.
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www.ceres.org
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Ceres (“series”) is a leading coalition of investors, environmental
groups and other public interest organizations working with
companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate
change. Ceres directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR),
a network of 60 institutional investors with collective assets totaling
more than $4 trillion.
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www.cdproject.net
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Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit
organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate
change information in the world. The data is obtained from
responses to CDP’s annual Information Requests, issued on behalf of
institutional investors, purchasing organisations and government
bodies.
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www.environmental
-mainstreaming.org
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International Institute for Environment and Development's
(IIED) initiative- produced a ‘User Guide’ to approaches (tools,
methods and tactics) for mainstreaming (or integrating)
environment into development decision-making (environmental
mainstreaming), steered by an International Stakeholders Panel.
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www.greenblue.org
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GreenBlue Institute, a nonprofit that stimulates the creative
redesign of industry by focusing the expertise of professional
communities to create practical solutions, resources, and
opportunities for implementing sustainability.
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grocc.ei.columbia.edu
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Global Roundtable on Climate Change brings together high-
level, critical stakeholders from all regions of the world — including
senior executives from the private sector and leaders of international
governmental and non-governmental organizations — to discuss
and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific,
technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public
policies on climate change. PDF.
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www.cdproject.net
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Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit
organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate
change information in the world.
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www.cerc04.org
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Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions, aims
to establish a legacy of environmental, energy, water, transportation,
and waste management best practices for future large meetings,
urban living and commerce.
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www.peercenter.net
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PEER Center stands for Public Entity EMS Resource Center and
provides a broad array of information and tools to help public
entities sustainably manage their organizations using a proven
Plan-Do-Check-Act framework embodied in environmental
management systems and similar approaches. The PEER Center is
a collaboration between the Office of Water at U.S. EPA and the
Global Environment & Technology Foundation.
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www.cbd.int/business
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UNEP's Convention on Biological Diversity. Climate Change
Adaptation Database. Integrating Biodiversity into Climate Change
Adaptation Planning- A business and biodiversity agenda. Lots of
info here.
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Reports...
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Reports on Climate Change: see Sustainability Reports below...
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www.pewclimate.org
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Pew Center on Global Climate Change. ''Adapting to
Climate Change: A Business Approach'' April 2008. Focuses on a
critical first step in assessing climate impacts: understanding the
potential risks to business and the importance of taking action to
mitigate those risks, with process to assess whether a business is
likely to be vulnerable to the physical risks associated with climate
change, and whether a more detailed risk assessment is warranted.
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www.pewclimate.org
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Pew Center on Global Climate Change. ''Getting Ahead of the
Curve: Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change''
October 2006.
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www.mckinseyquarterly.com
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McKinsey Quarterly. 'Addressing consumer concerns about
climate change.' Businesses must act on global warming and other
issues to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public.
March 2008.
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www.mckinseyquarterly.com
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McKinsey Quarterly. "Climate change and supply chain
management." July 2008.
Registration required.
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www.mckinsey.com
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McKinsey Quarterly "Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
How Much at What Cost?" Dec 2007.
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www.corporateregister.com
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CorporateRegister "Is climate change addressed? How are the
world’s largest companies (the Global FT500) acknowledging
and addressing climate change?" How companies communicate
their climate change goals and data. The first Report in a series
looking at leading CSR and corporate sustainability issues. PDF.
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www.wbcsd.org
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"Adaptation: An Issue Brief for Business" World Business
Council for Sustainable Development, presents an overview of
climate adaptation issues from a business perspective. The report
examines the potential impacts of climate changes on business, risks
and opportunities, the business case for adaptation planning, and
highlights areas in which business could have a role in promoting
adaption, both at community and global levels. Aug 2008.
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www.wri.org
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"Green and Mean: Can the U.S. Economy Be Both Climate
Friendly and Competitive?" World Resources Institute, March 10,
2009.
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www.wri.org
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"A Green Global Recovery? Assessing U.S. Economic Stimulus
and Prospects for International Coordination" World Resources
Institute, February, 2009. Well-tailored “green” components of a
recovery effort can create jobs and stimulate the economy while
achieving significant energy cost savings for businesses, consumers
and the government.
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www.wri.org
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"Evaluating the Energy Security Implications of a
Carbon-Constrained U.S. Economy" Jan 2009. In this paper, the
Center for Strategic and International Studies and the World
Resources Institute examine eight scenarios for technological
development and energy use in the United States in 2035. All
envision limiting the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide
(CO2) to 450 parts per million (ppm).
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www.ceres.org
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"Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Consumer and
Technology Companies" Ceres report employs a “Climate Change
Governance Framework” to evaluate how 48 US companies and 15
non-US companies are addressing climate change through board
oversight, management execution, public disclosure, GHG emissions
accounting and strategic planning and performance. Dec 2008.
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www.eoearth.org
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"Business strategy and climate change" adapted from: Hoffman,
A., 2007. The coming market shift: Climate change and business
strategy," in K. Tang and R. Yoeh (eds.) Cut Carbon, Grow Profits:
Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and
Sustainability. 2007. Encyclopedia of Earth.
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www.globalreporting.org
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"Reporting the Business Implications of Climate Change in
Sustainability Reports" Global Reporting Initiative and KPMG’s
Global Sustainability Services The survey found that while almost
all companies reported on climate change in their sustainability
reports, on closer examination companies reported far more on
potential opportunities rather than financial risks for their companies
from climate change.
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www.cdproject.net
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Carbon Disclosure Project: CDP5. The Carbon Disclosure Project
is a forum used by institutional investors to request information on
greenhouse gas emissions from some of the world's largest
companies. This report, the fifth in a continuing series, contains data
on individual company's CO2 emissions and mitigation plans, and
also includes analyses of new climate developments.
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www.kpmg.com
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KPMG: Climate Changes your Business This analysis of 50
authoritative studies aggregates findings and quantifies the levels of
climate-related risks facing a wide range of business sectors in order
to identify the specific risks and economic impacts that businesses
must address. April 2008.
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www.deloitte.com
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"The Risk Intelligent Energy Company: Weathering the Storm
of Climate Change" provides insight into identifying key climate
change risks, discusses how a Risk Intelligent approach to Enterprise
Risk Management helps to manage these risks, and offers guidance
on how to adapt business models to the implications of climate
change. Deloitte & Touche Oct 2007. PDF.
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www.theclimategroup.org
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"Carbon Down, Profits Up" report, describes actions taken by
many companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report
also highlights the advantages gained by firms that take early action
to address climate change. The Climate Group 2007. PDF.
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www.climateactionproject.com
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"Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet" Climate change
affects your company's competitive landscape in ways you might
not realize. The following document will show how to map your
risks - and opportunities. Harvard Business Review. Mar 2007.
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Reports on Green Investments: see bottom of Investments page
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www.unep.fr
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"Investing in a Climate for Change: Engaging the Finance
Sector" Addressing the serious issue of climate change requires
substantial investment in new technologies, processes and services.
Without substantial and sustained investment in clean energy and
other measures now, the reality of a global economy free of climate
change impacts will remain a distant dream. United Nations
Environment Programme.2008.
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www.unep.fr
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Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2008:
Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Financing of Renewable Energy
and Energy Efficiency. The information is intended to be a strategic
tool for understanding the status of the sustainable energy sector’s
development and for weighing future public and private
commitments to the sector... United Nations Environment
Programme.
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www.dbadvisors.com
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"Investing in Climate Change 2009: Necessity and Opportunity
in Turbulent Times" paper offers look at climate change investment
opportunities in the context of the credit crisis, energy price
volatility, technological innovation and the effect of regulation upon
all of these factors. It presents a framework to assess the risks and
rewards of climate change investing in the new environment.
Deutsche Bank. Oct '08.
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www.ceres.org
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2008 Investor Summit on Climate Risk Final Report' Ceres- April
2008 - To consider the scale and urgency of the climate challenge
and how investors can advance solutions, Ceres, the United Nations
Foundation, and the UN Fund for International Partnerships
co-hosted the third Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United
Nations on February 14, 2008. More than 450 investors, representing
over $22 trillion in assets, participated in the Summit.
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www.ceres.org
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Managing the Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change: A
Practical Toolkit for Investors" Ceres- April 2008 - The next 50
years will require a massive shift to cleaner energy sources and
technologies to avoid unmanageable climate disruption. This toolkit
is designed to help investors begin to comprehensively address
climate risks and opportunities in four key areas: internal
statements, policies, and governance; engagement with companies,
investors, and others; investment practices; public policy support.
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www.ceres.org
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"Corporate Governance and Climate Change, Making the
Connection" Ceres- March 2006. In this report, Ceres surveys 100 of
the world's largest companies in 10 industry sectors and uses a
"Climate Change Governance Checklist" to evaluate how these
companies are addressing the issue.
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www.newenergymatters.com
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"Green Investing- Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure"
World Economic Forum's Green Investing project, aims to explore
ways in which the world’s leading investors can most effectively
engage in the global effort to address climate change. Jan 2009.
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www.newenergymatters.com
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Clean Energy League Tables 2009: The Results
6 March 2009 Who is investing in whom, and how much.... PDF. ***
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www.newenergymatters.com
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New Energy Finance is a specialist provider of information and
research to investors in renewable energy, low-carbon technology
and the carbon markets.
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www.generationim.com
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Generation Investment Management. This paper is intended to
help promote sustainability in the capital markets and provides the
highlights of 5 themes : Climate Change, Pandemics, Real Needs at
the Base and at the Peak of the Economic Pyramid, Water, and
Demographics. PDF.
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www.carbontrust.co.uk
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A Climate for Change - A trustees guide to understanding and
addressing climate risk: issues facing pension trustees. Report
produced by Mercer Investment Consulting, for the Carbon Trust
and the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change. 11-2005.
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www.climateactionproject.com
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"Climatic Consequences: Investment Implications of a
Changing Climate" An investor report from CitiGroup, Jan. 19,
2007. The times they are a-(climate) changin'.
PDF.
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Reports on Green Jobs: see Green Jobs above...
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www.greenforall.org
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Green for All (Van Jones) list of reports and research related to
green-collar jobs. ***
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www.ases.org
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ASES Green Collar Jobs report forecasts 37 million jobs from
renewable energy and energy efficiency in the U.S. by 2030.
ASES/MISI study reveals opportunities, warnings in nation’s first
update of study; hottest sectors: solar, wind, biofuels, fuel cells.
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www.cggc.duke.edu
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"Manufacturing Climate Solutions" presents new research
linking U.S. jobs with selected low-carbon technologies that can help
combat global warming. In the report, we ask, “In a new global
economy increasingly affected by the threat of climate change, what
are the U.S. job opportunities in technologies that can reduce carbon
emissions?” Duke University's Center on Global Governance and
Competitiveness, Nov 2008.
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www.eesi.org
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"Jobs from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency"
Environmental and Energy Study Institute Fact Sheet October 22,
2008. PDF.
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www.wri.org
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"Creating Jobs With Climate Solutions: How Agriculture and
Forestry Can Help Lower Costs in a Low Carbon Economy"
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www.americanprogress.org
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"Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities: Building Pathways Out
of Poverty and Careers in the Clean Energy Economy" By the
Apollo Alliance and Green for All with the Center for American
Progress and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, March 13, 2008.
PDF.
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earth-policy.org
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Creating New Jobs, Cutting Carbon Emissions, and Reducing
Oil Imports by Investing in Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency. Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Dec 2008.
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www.climateactionproject.com
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New Energy for America. The Apollo Jobs Report: Good Jobs &
Energy Independence. Apollo Alliance. Jan 2004. PDF.
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www.edf.org
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Environmental Working Group. Survey Shows Green Jobs on
the Rise. Market research from December 2008 shows a positive
outlook for a new energy economy.A telephone-based survey of
business leaders on the topic of renewable energy and energy
efficient products and services was conducted by Frost & Sullivan.
PDF.
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Reports on Resources:
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www.wri.org
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"Watching Water: A Guide to Evaluating Corporate Risks in a
Thirsty World" In this report, JPMorgan Global Environmental,
Social, and Governance Research offers investors a framework for
evaluating the impact of water scarcity and water pollution on
individual sectors and companies. World Resources Institute, March
2008.
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www.ceres.org
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"Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Business &
Investors" February 2008 - This Ceres/Pacific Institute report, done at
the request of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, outlines the
wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity
and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many
parts of the world.
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Reports on Sustainability:
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www.stateofgreenbusiness.com
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State of Green Business 2009. Green Biz. *** introduces the
GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the
resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies:
carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech
investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and
more...
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www.iied.org
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International Institute for Environment and Development.
Business and Sustainable Development Reports Page.
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www.vattenfall.com
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Vattenfall. "CLIMATE MAP 2030 Mission possible How we’ll get
rid of 26.7 billion tonnes of emissions by 2030 and halt global
warming" ***
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www.worldenergy.org
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“2007 Global Energy Survey” World Energy Council, in
partnership with Korn/Ferry International. Focuses on the topic
“Tackling the Three S’s: Sustainability, Security and Strategy.”
More than 50 senior executives from the world’s leading energy
companies and their strategic suppliers were interviewed by
Korn/Ferry International.
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www.gesi.org
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SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the
Information Age. Through enabling other sectors to reduce their
emissions, the ICT industry could reduce global emissions by as
much as 15 per cent by 2020 – a volume of CO2 five times its own
footprint in 2020. Global e-Sustainability Initiative.
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www.globalreporting.org
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Global Reporting Initiative. Guidelines for Sustainability
Reporting: The G3. On reporting principles, establishing
procedures and narrative discussion of management approaches.
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www.combatclimatechange.org
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3C ''A roadmap to combating climate change The 3C initiative’s
recommendations to political leaders''
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www.sas.com
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Sustainability Across Borders. A new Economist Intelligence Unit
study explores leading organizations’ preferences for addressing
sustainability through global or regional approaches. Co-sponsored
by SAS, the research used online surveys and interviews with 226
companies worldwide, including Cisco, Lenovo, World Wildlife
Fund, Vodafone and HSBC. Nov 2008.
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www.iiasa.ac.at
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"Doing More with Less; Improving the Environment through
Green Engineering" International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis 2006.
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www.theclimategroup.org
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"Carbon Down, Profits Up" report, describes actions taken by
many companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report
also highlights the advantages gained by firms that take early action
to address climate change. The Climate Group 2007. PDF.
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Transport:
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www.bsr.org
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Clean Cargo Working Group is made up of 28 leading
multinational manufacturers (shippers) and freight carriers and
forwarders (carriers) that are dedicated to integrating
environmentally and socially responsible business principles into
transportation management. Business for Social Responsibility.
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www.climateactionprogramme.org
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UN's Climate Action "Shock report forecasts huge increase in
aviation’s global environmental impacts." A report submitted to the
7th US/Europe ATM R&D Seminar held in Barcelona. Aviation
CO2 emissions globally are forecast to rise from 572 Million tonnes
in 2000 to 1228 million by 2025. Aviation emissions on this scale run
a severe risk of overwhelming all CO2 reduction targets.
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