Handbook of Business and Climate Change

Edited by Anant K. Sundaram, Clinical Professor of Business Administration and Robert G. Hansen, Norman W. Martin 1925 Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, US

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Business and Climate Change 1
Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen

PART I THE BUSINESS CASE FOR CLIMATE CONCERNS
2 Business and climate change 8
Anant K. Sundaram
3 The end of combustion? 38
David Hone

PART II KEY INDUSTRIES: IMPACT AND RESPONSE
4 Banks and climate change risk 58
Edwin Anderson, Ilya Khaykin, Alban Pyanet and Til Schuermann
5 The patchwork quilt: business complexities of decarbonizing the electric sector 89
Scott G. Fisher, Bruce A. Phillips and Mark W. Scovic
6 Implications of fully decarbonizing the electric industry for business:
Icarus or Daedalus? 120
Bruce A. Phillips, Scott G. Fisher and Mark W. Scovic
7 Climate change and the insurance industry – risks and opportunities for
transitioning to a resilient low carbon economy 145
Maryam Golnaraghi
8 Climate change and aviation 187
Vincent Etchebehere
9 Leaders and laggards: how have oil and gas companies responded to the
energy transition? 208
Julia Hartmann, Andrew Inkpen and Kannan Ramaswamy

PART III CORPORATE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP IN THE
CLIMATE ECONOMY
10 Climate change communication strategies 231
Paul Argenti, Posie Holmes and Marloes Smittenaar
11 Corporate strategy and climate change: a nonmarket approach to
environmental advantage 251
Thomas C. Lawton and Carl J. Kock
12 Owens Corning: environmental footprint reduction as the foundation
for building a net-positive future 271
Frank O’Brien-Bernini and Amanda Meehan
13 Climate preparedness for business resilience 294
Janet Peace and Kristiane Huber

PART IV FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND CORPORATE PRACTICE
14 The equity value relevance of carbon emissions 326
Peter M. Clarkson, Jody Grewal and Gordon D. Richardson
15 Getting to 2050: transparency for setting and reaching supply chain
climate goals 340
Suzanne Greene and Alexis Bateman
16 Commodity supply chain management and climate change: a case study
of the palm oil industry 359
Yinjin Lee and Alexis Bateman
17 Carbon pricing 379
Robert G. Hansen
18 Shifting consumers’ decisions towards climate-friendly behavior 405
Rishad Habib and Katherine White

PART V CLIMATE FINANCE
19 Mainstreaming climate action in public and private investments:
mobilizing finance towards sustainable investments through the bond markets 430
Heike Reichelt, David P. Allen and Scott M. Cantor
20 Green bonds: investor, issuer and climate perspectives 458
Christa Clapp, Keith Lee and Anouk Brisebois
21 Cost of capital and climate risks 480
Gianfranco Gianfrate, Dirk Schoenmaker and Saara Wasama
22 ESG investing 503
Anant K. Sundaram

PART VI THE FUTURE
23 Reflections on the future 526
Arranged and edited by Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen

Index