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Climate change and the 2030 corporate agenda for sustainable development / edited by Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Liam Leonard.

Contributor(s): Leonard, Liam [editor.] | Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Alejandra [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in sustainability and environmental justice ; v. 19.Publisher: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016Copyright date: ?2017Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786358189 (e-book)Subject(s): Political Science -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy | Climate change | Climatic changes -- Economic aspects | Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) (21st : 2015 : Paris, France)Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 363.7/3874 LOC classification: QC981.8.G56 | C55 2016Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Prelims -- Climate change and the 2030 corporate agenda for sustainable development -- Climate change and the hospitality and tourism industry in developing countries -- Inseparable parts of sustainability: business, climate change, and integrated reporting -- Addressing climate change due to emission of greenhouse gases associated with the oil and gas industry: market-based regulation to the rescue -- Climate change and animal health risk -- Maldivian disaster risk management and climate change action in tourism sector: lessons for the sustainable development agenda -- The business case for climate change: the impact of climate change on Kenya's public listed companies -- Company policies to adapt climate change plan: a case study on Turkey -- Hidroays?en case: building dams in Chile's Patagonia region -- Indonesia's forestry policy at a crossroads in the sustainable development approach: a case study on the forest moratorium, 20112014 -- Creation and shaping of the global solar photovoltaic (pv) market -- About the authors.
Summary: 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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