Review
...explores a critical management challenge and offers authoritative counsel and practical insight... Excellent read for anyone who wants to understand the basics of climate change and how to manage the challenge from the ground up. --Green Business
Short enough to read on your next transcontinental or international flight...read it, have your management team read it, and then decide what your company needs to do to stay ahead in the game. --The Green Skeptic
In the 97-page book the authors smartly project that regulations that raise the cost of emissions are beginning to affect how businesses operate. --Environmental Leader
...an excellent read...tailored for time-starved executives...tackles climate change as the business issue that it has fast become. --Green Business, May 2008
Chief executives can no longer brush off concerns about climate change but need to start figuring out how global warming -- and regulations intended to curtail it -- will affect their businesses. --Reuters, April 24, 2008
Andrew Hoffman and John Woody's new business book...tells corporations and businesses to get out from under the desk. It's time to start counting carbon. --CBCnews.ca, May 21, 2008
Chief executives can no longer brush off concerns about climate change but need to start figuring out how global warming -- and regulations intended to curtail it -- will affect their businesses. --Reuters, April 24, 2008
Andrew Hoffman and John Woody's new business book...tells corporations and businesses to get out from under the desk. It's time to start counting carbon. --CBCnews.ca, May 21, 2008
Short enough to read on your next transcontinental or international flight...read it, have your management team read it, and then decide what your company needs to do to stay ahead in the game. --The Green Skeptic
In the 97-page book the authors smartly project that regulations that raise the cost of emissions are beginning to affect how businesses operate. --Environmental Leader
...an excellent read...tailored for time-starved executives...tackles climate change as the business issue that it has fast become. --Green Business, May 2008
Chief executives can no longer brush off concerns about climate change but need to start figuring out how global warming -- and regulations intended to curtail it -- will affect their businesses. --Reuters, April 24, 2008
Andrew Hoffman and John Woody's new business book...tells corporations and businesses to get out from under the desk. It's time to start counting carbon. --CBCnews.ca, May 21, 2008
Chief executives can no longer brush off concerns about climate change but need to start figuring out how global warming -- and regulations intended to curtail it -- will affect their businesses. --Reuters, April 24, 2008
Andrew Hoffman and John Woody's new business book...tells corporations and businesses to get out from under the desk. It's time to start counting carbon. --CBCnews.ca, May 21, 2008
Product Description
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond?
In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John Woody provide concise and reliable advice to help you answer this question. Drawing from their extensive experience working with organizations to address issues of environmental sustainability, the authors explain the impact of climate change on businesses and present a three-step process for developing an effective climate-change strategy:
Determine your company's "carbon footprint" and the ways in which potential changes in policy and markets will affect how you position your products and services. Reduce your carbon footprint in ways that create new strategic advantages. Gain a seat at the policy-development table so you can begin influencing policy decisions that will affect your company.
Packed with cogent advice and examples of how organizations in a wide range of industries are adopting this process, Climate Change is your playbook for strategically addressing a complex problem that no company can afford to ignore.
From our new Memo to the CEO series--solutions-focused advice from today's leading practitioners.
In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John Woody provide concise and reliable advice to help you answer this question. Drawing from their extensive experience working with organizations to address issues of environmental sustainability, the authors explain the impact of climate change on businesses and present a three-step process for developing an effective climate-change strategy:
Packed with cogent advice and examples of how organizations in a wide range of industries are adopting this process, Climate Change is your playbook for strategically addressing a complex problem that no company can afford to ignore.
From our new Memo to the CEO series--solutions-focused advice from today's leading practitioners.
