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Climate Change and the 2030 Corporate Agenda for Sustainable Development

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This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and establishes required actions by the private sector in order to ad...
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This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and establishes required actions by the private sector in order to reduce global warming and mitigating climate change effects.

We bring together evidence-based, conceptual and theoretical contributions from a diverse set of geographical locations, and disciplinary backgrounds on the meanings, implications, opportunities and challenges for business around the planet in relation to climate change.

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Price: $161.99
Pages: 272
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series: Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Publication Date: 21 December 2016
ISBN: 9781786358196
Format: Hardcover
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Climate change
This work unites international contributors in risk management, law, human resources, finance, international business, economics, and industrial engineering. They consider the business implications of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 and what it requires of the private sector. Each of the book’s 11 chapters includes an abstract outlining the purpose, methodology, approach, findings, and research and practical implications of the research described in the chapter. Some topics explored are climate change in the hospitality and tourism industry in developing countries, market-based regulation of greenhouse gases, climate change and animal health risk, disaster risk management and climate change, the impact of climate change on Kenya’s public listed companies, dams in Patagonia, and Indonesia’s forestry policy.
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Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia Liam Leonard, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA

Climate Change and the 2030 Corporate Agenda for Sustainable Development - Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
Climate Change and the Hospitality and Tourism Industry In Developing Countries - Gaunette Sinclair-Maragh
Inseparable Parts of Sustainability: Business, Climate Change, and Integrated Reporting - Arzu Özsözgün Çalkan and Emel Esen
Addressing Climate Change Due to Emission of Greenhouse Gases Associated with the Oil and Gas Industry: Market-Based Regulation to the Rescue - Osamuyimen Enabulele, Mahdi Zahraa and Franklin N. Ngwu
Climate Change and Animal Health Risk - Adem Hiko and Gelgelo Malicha
Maldivian Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Action In Tourism Sector: Lessons for the Sustainable Development Agenda - Carolina Herrera-Cano and Alejandro Herrera-Cano
The Business Case for Climate Change: the Impact of Climate Change on Kenya’s Public Listed Companies - Moses Kibe Kihiko and Mary Wanjiru Kinoti
Company Policies to Adapt Climate Change Plan: a Case Study on Turkey - Emel Esen and Arzu Özsözgün Çalkan
Hidroaysén Case: Building Dams In Chile’S Patagonia Region - Rafael Uribe Uribe, Francisco Jimenez Manterola, Caroline Voulminot Sontag, Andres Mesa Botero and Campbell R. Harvey
Indonesia’s Forestry Policy at a Crossroads In the Sustainable Development Approach: a Case Study on the Forest Moratorium, 2011-2014 - Maria Teresa Uribe-Jaramillo
Creation and Shaping of the Global Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Market - Valtteri Kaartemo