Business and Climate Change

Concepts

1. Course Introduction
2. The Science of Climate Change
3. The Economics and Public Policy of Climate Change

Featured Exercises

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  Analyze and reflect on greenhouse gas emissions rise and different industries’ contributions
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  Consider the implications of imperfect markets
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  Understand command, control, and market-based mechanisms for correcting market failures in the context of climate change

Concepts

1. Heat
2. Water Scarcity
3. Wildfires
4. Storms and Floods
5. Sea-Level Rise
6. Changes in the Ocean

Featured Exercises

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  Consider how your firm assesses climate change’s physical effects and its impact on suppliers, operations, and customers
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  Apply the three-step approach to climate adaptation
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  Identify challenges you could encounter proposing adaptation practices within your company
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  Reflect on the issues businesses may face when planning for stressors on a longer time horizon, such as rising sea levels or ocean changes

Concepts

1. New Belgium Brewing: Creating a Mitigation Strategy
2. The BMW Group: Reducing Emissions Across the Value Chain
3. Expanding Mitigation Possibilities
4. Business and Climate Change: Course Conclusion

Featured Exercises

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  Evaluate how your company measures its emissions and how it might reduce them
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  Identify key emissions sources and variables companies should consider when selecting a mitigation project to pursue
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  Assess the pros and cons associated with pursuing policy advocacy and using carbon offsets as mitigation strategies
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  Brainstorm how adaptation and mitigation progress might affect one another and synergies or tensions between the two