Climate Change—Business Must Take the Lead

Can industry rise to the challenge of a low-carbon economy?

There is no doubt that the mixed and incomplete messages coming from regulators, markets, competitors, and stakeholders on how to address climate change make investment decisions for business more challenging and uncertain.

Nevertheless, many businesses are forging ahead with innovative and collaborative ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, despite little clear direction on global emissions targets emerging from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties meeting that took place in Copenhagen in December 2009. This was the fifteenth meeting between the conference of parties (COP 15).

Some sectors with no global regulatory bodies are being proactive about making difficult decisions rather than waiting for a final global agreement from the regulators. These industries are designing and implementing energy-efficiency standards and emission-reduction strategies that will affect their activities around the globe.

This article looks at the climate change challenge for business and at what actions are being taken in the marine, aviation, and energy sectors.

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Unbiased assessment?

I smell a conflict of interest here. LRQA seems to be in the business of certification to standards. Therefore, more standards to comply with equals more certification business for LRQA. The whole anthropogenic global warming "concern" always seems to come back to some type of money-making ploy.

As Thomas Pyzdek pointed out in 1998 with simple SPC tools, global temperature more closely tracks solar activity than carbon dioxide emissions (http://www.qualitydigest.com/mar98/html/spctool.html & http://www.qualitydigest.com/april98/html/spctool.html). With the Climate-gate fiasco, lack of warming for the past few years, and discredited studies/scientists, one would think that the man-made global warming industry would have been dealt a serious blow to its credibility.

Climate Change Scam

Man caused climate change is the greatest scam of the century. There is not a single piece of actual evidence to support this theory. Anyone who claims there is should give a page reference to it in the latest IPCC report.

The AGW scam is based on a selection of computer that assume our atmosphere is based on positive feedbacks, that is the tiny effect of warming by CO2 is amplified by water vapour. In reality, all the data points to the contrary.

Even Jones, head of the CRU, one of the chief architects of the scam, now admits there has been no warming for 15 years. ClimateGate revealed that AGW is based on fraud and data manipulation.