corporations
UNEP-FI workshop: Water & Climate Risk in the Private Sector
12/10/11 10:00
Recently, I was speaking to a representative for a major global corporation in China about climate change and the need for preparing and adapting for coming impacts. He was curious but somewhat skeptical. Climate change was primarily an issue he had heard about from a carbon perspective — how can we reduce carbon emissions? Why should he worry about impacts? I asked him about some of his business interests. He mentioned preparing infrastructure, medium- and long-term planning, investment strategies. He mentioned agriculture and energy. He never mentioned water. I said, even if you don’t realize you’re in the water business, you’re in the water business. And the water business means that you’re also in the climate adaptation business. Carbon may be important for meeting laws and regulations. Water is going to be important for profits and economic security.
Along those lines, last March the United Nations Environment Program–Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) approached the World Bank, Conservation International, and (most importantly) the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation to help organize a workshop for corporate and private investors and banks to look at how the risk landscape is shifting and will continue to shift with climate.
The workshop is scheduled for 21 October 2011 in Washington, DC, USA, and only a few slots remain. REGISTER NOW! Registration and workshop details are below! Read More...
Along those lines, last March the United Nations Environment Program–Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) approached the World Bank, Conservation International, and (most importantly) the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation to help organize a workshop for corporate and private investors and banks to look at how the risk landscape is shifting and will continue to shift with climate.
The workshop is scheduled for 21 October 2011 in Washington, DC, USA, and only a few slots remain. REGISTER NOW! Registration and workshop details are below! Read More...
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Friends in High Places
19/05/10 16:18
I have just returned from the first of three quick trips to China. Even by my standards, the first journey was extremely peripatetic, full of constant motion. But sometimes having so many changes in quick succession shows surprising connections — hidden threads and themes.
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