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2008/11 Nike, Sun, Starbucks, Timberland and Levi Strauss Team For Strong Climate Laws
2009/12 Taming the 'Wild West' of Corporate GHG Target-Setting
2011/5 The Pitfalls of Aligning CSR Goals with Public Policy Work
2011/9 The Factor Environmental Ratings Miss
2012/1 Review of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, by Chris Turner
2013/8 Businesses With a Social Conscience Reach a Tipping Point
2013/9 Companies join call for US action on climate
2013/11 HOW COULD BUSINESSES PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY?
2013/12 2014 is the year for a strong, unified business voice on climate policy
2014/1 How Wall Street Can Solve the Climate Crisis
2014/4 Shell, Adidas, And 70 Other Companies Call On Governments To Cap Carbon At 1 Trillion Tons
2014/5 U.S. Companies Just Took a Bold Step to Force the Government to Address Climate Change
2014/7 To Keep Delivering Quality Products, General Mills Wants Major Carbon Cuts From Suppliers
2014/9 Corporate Leaders Plot a Path to a Low-Carbon Future
2014/9 Corporate lobbying on climate change: silence is not neutrality
2015/2 World's biggest PR firm calls it quits with American oil lobby – reports
2015/3 BP and Google leave Alec: are companies finally taking climate change seriously?
2015/4 Corporate America's position on the EPA's clean power act
2015/4 Open Letter from Global CEOs to World Leaders Urging Concrete Climate Action
2015/4 Open Letter from Global CEOs to World Leaders Urging Concrete Climate Action — Medium
2015/4 Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action
2015/6 Can Silicon Valley sell big business on climate action?
2015/6 Major Oil Companies Letter to UN
2015/7 Road to Paris: A corporate crash course on climate and COP21
2015/8 Businesses do – and should – play a role in creating a better society
2015/8 It's time for CEOs and mayors to join forces on climate
2015/8 It's Time For Corporate America To Stand Up To Republican Climate Deniers
2015/8 Royal Dutch Shell cuts ties with Alec over rightwing group's climate denial
2015/8 Should business leaders speak out more on climate change?
2015/8 Why Did 7 Big Oil Companies Submit Climate Pledges To The United Nations?
2015/9 Bankers Ask for Carbon Tax
2015/9 Companies Should Make Sure Lobbying Isn't at Odds with Climate Policies
2015/9 Getting beyond intentional futility in the climate movement
2015/9 Investors Call on Corporations to Oppose Chamber's Challenge to Clean Power Plan
2015/9 Mars, Bloomberg vow with 6 million companies to act on climate change
2015/10 Food industry executives call on Congress for climate change action
2015/10 Global Food Companies Unite On Climate Action — Ceres
2015/11 Airbnb and Uber Mobilize Vast User Base to Sway Policy
2015/11 Business leaders will bring politicians to the table on climate change
2015/11 The best climate policy is also the most business-friendly
2015/12 American Electric Power ditches Alec membership
2015/12 As Big Food Feels Threat Of Climate Change, Companies Speak Up
2015/12 As GOP Debates Climate Change, Corporate Lobbyists Wish For Action
2015/12 For big business seeking CO2 emissions price, a ray of hope from Paris
2015/12 Over 60 Groups Call for the Fossil Fuel Industry to Pay for their Climate Damage
2015/12 The North Face: Washington Must Act on Climate Change
2016/2 The Climate Movement Needs More Corporate Lobbyists
2016/4 Business voices come out in support of Clean Power Plan
2016/4 Corporations Move to Curb Global Warming
2016/4 Corporations need a better approach to public policy
2016/4 InfluenceMap Continues Green Campaign to Dupe the Press on ‘Climate Denial’
2016/4 The Bar for Corporate Leadership on Climate Has Been Raised
2016/5 Business Is Taking Action on LGBT Rights. Will Climate Change Be Next?
2016/6 Why Isn't Anyone Lobbying For Climate Change?
2016/7 Progressive Businesses Are Showing Low Carbon Economy Transition Underway
2016/10 Who’s Lobbying Congress on Climate Change
2016/11 Business giants call on US to support the Paris Agreement
2016/11 The Fortune 500 Can’t Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy
2016/12 In Age of Trump, business leaders take up climate fight
2016/12 The Business Case To Mobilize Against Climate Change: Jobs And Innovation
2017/2 Can Corporations Help Heal Broken Policy and Politics in an Era of Upheaval? – Brink – The Edge of Risk
2017/2 Why Won’t American Business Push for Action on Climate?
2017/5 The Business Case for the Paris Climate Accord
2017/6 Energy CEOs Tell EPA Chief They Want Carbon Regulation
2017/6 Exxon, BP and Shell back carbon tax proposal to curb emissions
2017/7 Aligning Business and Government on Climate Change
2017/8 Surpassing 100 members, the RE100 signals a wave of change
2017/8 The big whiff: How corporate America missed the climate fix
2018/5 Moving beyond disclosure and driving action
2018/5 Powerful Investors Push Big Companies to Plan for Climate Change
2018/6 Does Your Carbon Handprint Reduce or Increase Your Carbon Footprint?
2018/7 Shell would support UK bringing forward petrol ban from 2040
2018/7 Shell, BP sign letter praising bill taxing carbon emissions - Axios
2018/12 How can companies use their lobbying to drive a net zero future? — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
2019/3 Big Oil’s Real Agenda on Climate Change
2019/3 Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report
2019/4 Corporate climate change action could save the world
2019/4 POLITICS: Climate advocacy pops up in unlikely place: Rotary Clubs
2019/4 Sustainable Food Policy Alliance lobbies for carbon pricing
2019/5 CEOs of Over 75 Companies Urge Congress to Set National Carbon Price
2019/5 Companies asked to come clean on climate lobbying
2019/8 Patagonia, Ben & Jerry’s, and 30 other companies tell the Business Roundtable
2019/8 US Businesses Are Benefiting From Ambitious Environmental Goals
2019/9 3 ways to support employee climate activism
2019/9 Can We Trust CEOs' Shock Conversion to Corporate Benevolence?
2019/9 Will companies seize the moment and go all-in on climate?
2019/10 Answering the Call for Business Leadership on Climate Policy
2019/10 Business climate activism can sway policy
2019/10 Climate policy leadership
2019/10 Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying
2019/10 It’s time for companies to make the leap from action to advocacy
2019/10 Major Environmental Groups Call On Businesses To Lead On Climate Policy
2019/10 Toyota’s Support of Trump Emissions Rules Shocks Californians
2019/11 As US Moves to Withdraw from Paris Agreement, Business Leaders Call Out Risks
2019/11 How to limit climate change: let the private sector do its job
2019/12 How Big Oil could walk the talk on climate change
2020/1 Whitehouse, Schatz, Heinrich Press Major Institutional Investors about Marathon Petroleum’s Anti-Climate Lobbying
2020/2 BP cuts ties with three US trade groups over climate policies
2020/2 Climate glitterati gather in Washington for tense meeting
2020/2 Commentary: The world needs businesses to speak out on climate. Workers can lead the charge.
2020/2 More CEOs are under pressure to do better by the world. But it's complicated.
2020/9 Too slowly, corporations and NGOs hop on the advocacy train
2020/10 BlackRock ETF thrusts climate change into political sphere
2020/12 Big Tech says it cares about climate—but do its lobbyists?
2021/1 In Switch Chamber of Commerce Backs Climate Action
2021/4 Corporate climate advocacy in action as business stands ready to deliver US NDC increase
2021/4 Executives Call for Deep Emission Cuts to Combat Climate Change
2021/5 New framework released to drive investor action on the climate crisis and accelerate the transition to a net-zero future
2021/5 Time for CFOs to Influence the SEC’s Climate Effort
2021/5 Top 50 asset managers have yet to match rhetoric with action to address negative lobbying & corporate policy capture
2021/6 To scale climate solutions we need policy not Greenwishing
2021/7 Corporate Climate Efforts Lack Impacts
2021/12 Combating Climate Change supporting Ambition Climate Action
2021/12 Nearly 400 companies urge the U.S. Senate to unleash the Build Back Better Act's historic investments in climate, clean jobs, savings and environmental justice
Business Policy Advocacy and Opposition TOC
I - BoundingImpactsofBusinessResponses
I - BusinessLeadingChange
I - BusinessOppositionasCausalFactor
I - BusinessPolicyOpposition
I - BusinessWon'tStepUp
I - PolicyFootprints
I - PolicyOppositionbyHighInfluenceCompanies
I - PrivateEnvironmentalGovernance
I - SixBusinessAmericas?
I - SolutionasBusinessAction
I - TradeAssociationPolicyOpposition
S - Business Commitments Strategies
S - Business Opposition to Climate Action
S - Business Positioning and Advocacy on Climate Action
S - Business Stepping Up
S - Climate Policy Advocacy by Business
S - Investor Climate Policy Advocacy
S - Voluntary Carbon Offset Markets
N - Business and a Low Carbon Transition
N - Business Initiatives
N - Business Policy Advocacy
N - Business Policy Opposition
T - Business Advocacy
E - Business Carbon Pricing Advocacy
E - Business Leadership Role in Mitigation
E - Business Policy Advocacy
E - Business Policy Opposition
E - Science-based targets
Chief Executive Officers
S - Best Business Practices for a Climate Response
S - Business Case for Climate Response
S - Business Commitments Strategies
S - Business Opposition to Climate Action
S - Business Positioning and Advocacy on Climate Action
S - Business Response and Firm Performance
S - Business Stepping Up
S - Climate Policy Advocacy by Business
S - Climate Policy Under Uncertainty
S - Communicating w Policy-Makers
S - Ecocide in International Law
S - Green Jobs
S - Investor Climate Policy Advocacy
S - Media Coverage
S - Public Beliefs and Knowledge
S - Risk Disclosure as Business Response
N - A Policy Tipping Point?
N - Business and a Low Carbon Transition
N - Business and Denial
N - Business Best Practice
N - Business Initiatives
N - Business Policy Advocacy
N - Business Policy Opposition
N - Business Responding to Pressure
N - Business Risk Management
N - Business Risk Perceptions
N - Can/Will Business "Step Up"
N - Conservative Perspectives
N - Culture Change (Business)
N - Green Jobs
N - Greenwashing - Climate
N - Litigation and Liability News
N - Risk Disclosure News
N - Shareholder Resolutions/Litigation
N - Skeptical of Business Action/Potential
T - Business Advocacy
V - Business and Climate Videos
C - Business and Climate Cartoons
E - Business Carbon Pricing Advocacy
E - Business Leadership Role in Mitigation
E - Business Policy Advocacy
E - Business Policy Opposition
E - Business Support for TCFD
E - Critiquing Business Responses
E - Evaluating Business Responses
E - Green Jobs
E - Internal Business Responses
E - Policy Advocacy/Opposition
E - Responses by Business Sector
Decision Making - Business TOC
S - Adaptation Decisionmaking
S - Assessing Climate Investment Risk
S - Assessments of Business Climate Risks
S - Best Business Practices for a Climate Response
S - Business Adaptation/Resilience
S - Business Case for Climate Response
S - Business Climate Responses Sources
S - Business Commitments Strategies
S - Business Decision-Making with Climate Uncertainty
S - Business Greenwashing
S - Business Opposition to Climate Action
S - Business Positioning and Advocacy on Climate Action
S - Business Response as Risk Management
S - Business Stepping Up
S - Climate as Opportunity
S - Climate Change Scenario Planning
S - Climate Policy Advocacy by Business
S - Current State of Climate Risk Reporting
S - Customer/Public Activism as Business Risk
S - Decision-making Under Uncertainty
S - Decision-Making Futures
S - Evaluating Business Responses
S - Evaluating Investment and Climate Change
S - Fossil Fuels and Fossil Free Investing
S - Internal Corporate Carbon Pricing
S - Investing Under Uncertainty
S - Investor Best Practices on Climate
S - Investor Climate Policy Advocacy
S - Managing Investments Against Climate Risk
S - Market Mechanisms
S - Policy Outcomes as Business Risk
S - Risk Disclosure as Business Response
S - Sectoral Risk Disclosure
S - Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
N - Brand Risk
N - Business Litigation and Liability Risk
N - Business Policy Advocacy
N - Business Policy Opposition
N - Business Risk Management
N - Culture Change (Business)
N - Investor Expectations
N - Market Structure Risk
N - Readiness/Adaptation for Physical Risks
N - Skeptical of Business Action/Potential
T - Adaptation Tools
T - Business Advocacy
T - Business Climate Response Networks
T - Business Declarations
T - Business Initiatives
V - Investing and Climate
E - Business Carbon Pricing Advocacy
E - Business Climate Response Extracts
E - Business Leadership Role in Mitigation
E - Business Policy Advocacy
E - Business Policy Opposition
E - Business Resilience/Adaptation
E - Business Response Best Practice
E - Business Response Examples
E - CC and Equity Value
E - Climate Branding
E - Climate Impact on Returns
E - Climate Impacts on Corporate Ratings
E - Climate Opportunities
E - Climate Risk and ERM
E - Critiquing Business Responses
E - Evaluating Business Responses
E - Evaluating Risk Disclosure
E - Explaining Business Responses
E - Internal Business Carbon Pricing
E - Pension Fund Risk and Risk Management
E - Policy Advocacy/Opposition
E - Principles of Risk Management
E - Responses by Business Sector
E - Risk Disclosure Best Practice
E - Risk Disclosure Materiality
E - Risk Disclosure Rules
E - Risk Disclosure Scenarios
E - Risk Disclosure Timeline
E - Risk Management Barriers
E - Risk Management Strategy
E - Risk Reporting
E - Science-based targets
E - Visualizing Risk Management
N - Business Climate Responses
2021/9 The 50 U.S. Companies Using the Highest Percentage of Green Energy
N - Business Adaptation
N - Business and a Low Carbon Transition
N - Business and Deforestation
N - Business and Denial
N - Business Best Practice
N - Business Brand Protection
N - Business Cases
N - Business Initiatives
N - Business Policy Advocacy
N - Business Policy Opposition
N - Business Responding to Pressure
N - Business Risk Management
N - Can/Will Business "Step Up"
N - Changing Business Models
N - Corporate Climate Governance
N - Culture Change (Business)
N - Delaying Climate Action
N - Evaluating Business Action
N - Exxon Responses to Climate Change
N - Greenwashing - Climate
N - Greenwishing - Climate
N - Net Zero Corporate Commitments
N - Readiness/Adaptation for Physical Risks
N - Risk Disclosure News
N - Sector Responses
N - Skeptical of Business Action/Potential
2023/3 Planetary Ikigai: What business and sustainability leaders need to grasp?
2009/7 Unilever's Former Chief Moves on With Plan to Fix the World
2011/7 Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $50 Million to Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign to Move America Toward Cleaner Energy
2016/3 The relationship between corporations and climate change
2016/6 Challenging ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on Climate Change
2016/11 Achieving Breakthrough Results in Sustainability
2016/11 Business Leaders Support Steps to Rescue Climate
2017/6 The utility sector's business case for deep decarbonization
2017/11 Companies Giving “Climate Leave” Is Now A Thing
2018/4 Climate risk: Running out of time
2018/12 How companies are getting serious about climate change
2019/0 Accenture Strategy CEO Study on Sustainability
2019/1 Populism will change corporate purpose for good
2019/1 Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?
2019/3 AT&T, Beset by Disaster Costs, Turns to 30-Year Climate Modeling
2019/3 How can business help people to take action on climate change?
2019/6 Best Buy Sets First-Ever Goal to Help Consumers Reduce Their Carbon Emissions and Save Billions on Utilities as It Commits to Further Reduce Its Own Carbon Use
2019/6 CFTC to assess climate change risk and possible mitigation steps
2019/9 87 major companies lead the way towards a 1.5°C future at UN Climate Action Summit
2019/9 Google workers are striking for climate
2019/9 The $47 Trillion Death Sentence For Oil & Gas
2019/9 The Billion Dollar Company With A Mission To Reverse Global Warming
2019/11 A job to do at COP25 – Shell Climate Change
2019/11 Google workers call on company to adopt aggressive climate plan
2019/11 Tackle climate change or face funding pressure, gas conference told
2019/12 177 Companies Have Pledged to Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
2019/12 What’s Behind Big Oil’s Promises of Emissions Cuts? Lots of Wiggle Room.
2019/12 Why ‘100% renewable energy’ pledges are not enough
2020/1 After the hedge: The elephant in RWE’s boardroom
2020/1 Big Business Says It Will Tackle Climate Change, but Not How or When
2020/1 Davos asks CEOs to set net-zero target by 2050
2020/1 Mastercard and Partners Launch Priceless Planet Coalition to Act on Climate Change
2020/1 Microsoft pledges to remove more carbon than it produces by 2030
2020/1 Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
2020/1 Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
2020/1 Mind the Protection Gap: Where Finance Fits in Solving the Climate Vulnerability of the Poor
2020/1 The Climate Crisis Won’t Get Fixed Unless Big Companies Step Up
2020/1 The urgency emergency: why businesses must act now to avert climate catastrophe
2020/1 Your Company’s Next Leader on Climate Is…the CFO
2020/2 Bezos Says He’ll Commit $10 Billion to Fight Climate Change
2020/2 Big businesses are failing forests
2020/2 BP Lays Out Long-Term Ambition to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions
2020/2 CDC Group appoints Climate Change Director ahead of the launch of new climate change strategy
2020/2 How to measure the impact of business decisions on climate change
2020/2 JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
2020/2 Standard Chartered and Imperial College Business School join forces on new Climate Partnership
2020/2 The Climate Crisis Won’t Get Fixed Unless Big Companies Step Up
2020/2 Will Big Business Finally Reckon with the Climate Crisis?
2020/3 78% of Europe’s largest companies falling short of adequately reporting environmental and climate-related risks despite EU guidelines
2020/3 Carbon neutral from this year, enabling 100% renewable energy by 2025, and reducing absolute emissions 50% by 2030 - we're acting on climate change
2020/3 Should Markets Help Prevent Climate Disaster or Just Curb Losses?
2020/3 What it takes to be a corporate climate leader
2020/4 As Part of Its Plan to be Net Zero Carbon by 2040, Amazon Commits $10 Million to Restore and Conserve 4 Million Acres of Forest in the Appalachians and other U.S. Regions in Partnership with The Nature Conservancy
2020/5 Climate change: Study pours cold water on oil company net zero claims
2020/5 EarthLab welcomes new distinguished fellow Josh Henretig to study corporate climate commitments and opportunities for UW collaboration
2020/5 Patagonia and Columbia Join Forces to Fight Trump
2020/5 The Role of Multinational Corporations in Addressing Our Climate Crisis
2020/8 Q&A: A Law Professor Studies How Business is Making Climate Progress Where Government is Failing
2020/9 Bloomberg Philanthropies and Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign Reaches Landmark Closure of 318th U.S. Coal Plant, On Track To Retire All Coal Plants By 2030
2020/9 Givaudan further reinforces nature and climate commitments signing Business for Nature call-to-action
2020/9 Study Shows 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Failing to Live Up to Promises as Corporations Continue Putting Profits Over People
2020/9 Swiss Re introduces triple-digit internal carbon levy to support transition to net-zero emissions in operations by 2030
2020/10 Putting sustainability at the center of business strategy An interview with Paul Polman
2020/12 Fidelity, UBS Join Investors Making $9 Trillion Net-Zero Pledge
2020/12 Groundhog Pay: How executive incentives trap companies in a loop of fossil growth
2020/12 How Green Are America’s Companies? Tracking Corporate Climate Progress
2020/12 The challenge of climate change
2021/1 Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases From the Air. It’s a Gamble.
2021/1 Too Many Companies Are Banking on Carbon Capture to Reach Net Zero
2021/2 Bezos’ climate fund faces a reckoning with Amazon’s pollution
2021/2 What’s Really Behind Corporate Promises on Climate Change?
2021/3 The fall from favor of the motivated chief of Danone
2021/4 Corporate secrecy over climate change targeted by Washington and California
2021/4 Executives Call for Deep Emission Cuts to Combat Climate Change
2021/4 JPMorgan pledges $2.5 trillion over the next decade toward climate change
2021/4 Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks
2021/4 The battle of narratives Five new sustainability narratives for business
2021/4 Trade associations speak on carbon pricing — will action follow?
2021/4 What Can the Industry Do to Have a Real Impact on Climate?
2021/4 Why Are So Many Companies Embracing Carbon Offsetting?
2021/5 Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership
2021/5 Shell’s CEO thinks we’re dumb
2021/5 Sustainability prioritised by less than one-third of UK bank boardrooms
2021/6 Multinational Companies Planning to Cut Suppliers by 2025
2021/6 Tech titans including Amazon and Google team up to scale climate solutions
2021/6 Will corporations choose climate transformation or climate status quo?
2021/7 CEO’s 2021 Letter to Climate Finance Stakeholders
2021/7 Exclusive natural gas data reveals trillions of dollars of upcoming projects
2021/7 New report suggests corporate climate change pledges aren’t that valuable
2021/7 The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago
2021/7 The truth behind corporate climate pledges
2021/8 10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress
2021/8 Agora Energy’s Solution Will Turn CO2 & Electricity Into Industrial Feedstocks Cheaply
2021/8 Climate tech’s Netscape moment - Billions are pouring into the business of decarbonisation
2021/8 Stop It With the '100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Carbon Emissions' Already
2021/9 ‘We will have a really long, long memory’: Greens calling businesses’ bluff on climate change
2021/9 8 business leaders championing a nature-positive economy
2021/9 World's largest companies make major carbon-cutting pledges
2021/10 Carbon Might Be Your Company’s Biggest Financial Liability
2021/10 eBay slashes emissions goals with new SBTi approved climate targets
2021/10 Google Maps to show the lowest carbon route for car journeys
2021/10 Japan's Mitsubishi to spend $17.5 bln by 2030 to drive decarbonisation
2021/10 Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At
2021/10 TotalEnergies accused of downplaying climate risks
2021/11 Chamber of Commerce Lobbying on Climate Investing ‘At Odds’ With Member Stances, Says Report
2021/11 COP26: Global leaders sign pledge to halt deforestation
2021/11 Law firms lack resources to meet corporate demand for ESG services, study finds
2021/11 Patagonia Has a New Mission to “Save Our Home Planet”—One of Its First Employees Explains How They’ll Get It Done
2021/11 Which Countries Are Meeting Their Paris Agreement Goals?
2021/12 the beef: McDonald’s avoids the bold step it must take to cut emissions
2022/5 Rolls-Royce Says Carbon-Reduction Programs Are Costly But Create Business Opportunities
2023/1 Shell to spend $450m on carbon offsetting as fears grow that credits may be worthless
2023/3 Carbon Offset Seller's Forest-Protection Projects Questioned
2024/3 Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
2021 Correlation between internal carbon pricing and other climate actions 2018-2020
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