Companies need to adopt strategies to become more resilient to climate change and identify ways to reduce emissions. The author, faculty chair of Harvard Business School’s Business and Environment Initiative and host of the HBS Climate Rising podcast, suggests five ways companies can engage with ENGOs to work on their climate change efforts, as well as some pitfalls to avoid.
In 2015, 196 global parties signed the Paris Agreement which agreed to limit the global temperature rise to well below 2ºC, but a, approximately 50% higher than pre-industrial levels. Preventing global warming from exceeding 1.5ºC and reaching net zero emissions by 2050 will require nearlyis the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. He is the faculty chair of the school’s Business and Environment Initiative.