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Written by Tom Glendening
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Move over Martin Scorsese, Al Gore is Oscar . This is one more step of climate change going mainstream. One of the more interesting economic implications of this trend is with real estate values. Prices may start to take into account potential direct implications, future regulatory changes, and changing marketplace perceptions. |
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Written by Tom Glendening
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Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) , a coalition of unions, public pensions, and faith-based institutional investors in Money magazine recently identified ten companies, including Exxon and Bed Bath & Beyond , that it believes are too slow to address climate change. INCR suggest that companies that are slow to evolve their business operations to address climate change and, more specifically, to a changing regulatory environment, may see their bottom (aka profit) line damaged. |
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Written by Thomas Chenoweth
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Insurance customers see rising rates and dropped policies. Insurance companies, according to Ceres , experience insured losses multiplying 15-fold in three decades: far faster than inflation, population or growth.
Climate change affects nearly every industry in at least three ways: directly (i.e. drought, sea level rise), through increased regulations, and through market perception that climate change is a problem. The difference is that the insurance industry needs to address climate change much more quickly. On one hand, the market for climate-change related products is growing. On the other claims from damage from 500-year floods every few years, a multi-year drought, or another Katrina would be daunting. |
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Written by David Neubert
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Blogger Felix Salmon summarizes a Citigroup (C) report on climate change and companies poised to benefit. Principal companies noted are in Alternative Fuels, Carbon Trading and Clean Technology. Link to Felix's Summary and list of companies mentioned. |
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Written by Emily Davidow
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 Today it's increasingly clear that, considering the environment is no longer trendy or simply the right thing to do for business, there is no alternative. Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of Green to Gold : How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage gave an engaging talk on drivers of this new reality and strategies for dealing with it in New York on February 7, 2007, organized by Smith College Club of New York City and Columbia Business School Club of New York. |
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