Climate change briefing papers

Increasingly, ACCA members need to understand how the climate change crisis will affect businesses. This impact can be felt throughout an organisation as a consequence of changing taxation, carbon trading, new reporting requirements, different management needs, formulating adaptation policies, or changes required in governance.

The ACCA climate change briefing papers each focus on a specific issue of corporate carbon management. They provide readers with the information needed to assess the changing environment ahead. ACCA has worked with several well-established partners in the relevant field to develop their content.

Investment - Climate change briefing paper
Prepared by Trucost, October 2009. Investor action to address risks and opportunities linked to greenhouse gas emissions is barely off the starting block.
Governance and management - Climate change briefing paper
Prepared by EIRIS, October 2009. A critical issue for companies. Where robust and transparent sustainability and climate change governance practices are embedded into corporate strategy, companies are more likely to be able to manage the risks and maximise the opportunities presented by climate change.
Adaptation - Climate change briefing paper
Prepared by Acclimatise, October 2009. Climate change adaptation means recognising what is happening to our climate on a global and local scale, and developing strategies to manage the risks that this presents is crucial to the growth, development and continuing success of any organisation.
Mitigation - Climate change briefing paper
Prepared by the Carbon Trust, October 2009. Climate change mitigation entails finding ways to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. Ways of mitigating climate change include reducing demand for emissions-intensive goods and services, increasing efficiency gains, increasing use and development of low-carbon technologies, and reducing non-fossil fuel emissions.
Taxation - Climate change briefing paper
Professor Paul Ekins, October 2009. A UK Perspective on carbon-related taxation, which suggests that a significant increase in carbon tax rate would only be politically feasible if it were implemented on a broadly revenue-neutral basis.

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Climate change briefing papers