After Copenhagen: Business and Climate Change

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 may have kept international negotiations alive on the issue, but it certainly did not deliver a comprehensive agreement that would set the framework for international action.

This report therefore looks at how companies around the world are addressing carbon issues amid continuing uncertainty about what will be expected of them by governments, consumers and even societies. It seeks to examine the ways in which companies are addressing the risks and opportunities of operating in a business environment where numerous stakeholders remain greatly concerned about carbon emissions, even as others are growing more sceptical.

To give a longer-term perspective to these challenges, the report also includes three scenarios of what the world might look like in five to ten years