“Whatever risk managers may think about the causes of climate change, there is now little doubt that it is happening and that it poses business risk that companies cannot afford to ignore” Richard Willsher, www.financialdirector.co.uk .
In this months Finance Director, climate risk is identified as a key business risk.
Cary Depel, deputy chairman of the London-based […]
Archive for June, 2006
Key role for CFO and finance in climate risk planning
June 29th, 2006National security challenge for Australia
June 12th, 2006CLIMATE change now poses a graver long-term security risk to Australia than terrorism, with a high likelihood it will produce destabilising civil conflict and unregulated population movements in Asia and the Pacific.
That is the conclusion of leading Australian security expert Alan Dupont, the co-author of a new study on climate change and security. The study, […]
UK Defence experts raise global warming threats
June 12th, 2006Ahead of the Lowy Institute’s security report due Tuesday, leading United Kingdom defence thinktank, The Oxford Research Group, has released an expert review on climate change and security.
The major report Global Responses to Global Threats:Sustainable Security for the 21st Century is the result of an 18-month long research project examining the various threats to global […]
UK News - Tipping point as Blue chips see the green light?
June 12th, 2006The Guardian Business Section’s Economics editor, Larry Elliott, reports that the cream of British business lobbied Tony Blair last week. Executives from Vodafone, Unilever, BAA, John Lewis Partnership, Tesco, Shell and eight other companies demanded urgent action from the Prime Minister.
Nothing new in that, you may think. Business is forever bending the ear of ministers, […]
Utilities and Climate Change - threat or opportunity?
June 25th, 2006Following the recent warning from both U.K. utilities and the UK government that climate change threatened to undermine investment in the power sector’s generation and transmission assets, recent market activity in Australia suggests plenty of climate change investment opportunities abound.
Last year’s mildest winter on record and the regulatory forecast “lag” with climate change is creating […]