Navigating the Global Warming Future: Developing a Resilient Business Response to a Growing Focus on Carbon
Global carbon levels are rising rapidly, and the planet is heating up as a consequence. As a result, many states and nations are responding by setting increasingly aggressive carbon targets for industry sectors across their economies.
Companies of all sizes and in all industries are choosing to adapt – or being forced to do so.
This rapidly accelerating pace of change represents threat and opportunity, and your business is not immune. It’s only a matter of time. For example, just recently, Salesforce began requiring all of its vendors to submit carbon management plans within 90 days if they want to do business. Larger companies such as Walmart are also considering the carbon-intensity of their vendors.
Recent estimates suggest that maintaining a habitable climate (1.5 – 2.0 degrees C) may require investments of more than $130 trillion by 2050 – less than thirty years from now. Companies that are nimble enough to take right actions now will survive, and those who do not will be outflanked by the competition.
In this eye-opening, frank presentation, energy industry adviser Peter Kelly Detwiler will lead your audience to determine how global warming could be putting their entire at risk with questions like these:
• How will my company be affected? Where are our greatest vulnerabilities and potential exposure right now?
• Are there preventative actions we can and should be taking now, not only for the short term benefits to ourselves and our stakeholders but for the long term sustainability of our business and its effects on our planet?
• Reading our business partners and our customers – are they pressuring us to decarbonize? What would be the PR effect of doing it now vs. later?
• Are our employees concerned, and does our carbon footprint create risks in talent hiring and retention?
• What is our physical plant and our supply chain exposure to carbon, and to the effects resulting from an increasingly unstable climate?
• Do the products or supplies we sell or use threaten our public perception?
• What can we do now to become and stay competitive in our space?
This change is coming, but you can understand what’s happening, and get in front of it to develop a strategy to ensure your success. The biggest companies are already well down this path and there is a lot to be learned from what they have accomplished.
Peter’s clear, highly customized, well-prepared presentation will help every company understand how to manage increasing levels of uncertainty regarding the perils of climate change and increase the odds of making the right strategic resource allocations in a timely fashion. The risks and the opportunities are unprecedented. Proactivity is key to sustainability and profitability.