政府间气候变化专门委员会的《拼搏体育官网客户端》(Code Red for Humanity: Finding your Business’Pathway to Climate Action)

本周早些时候, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a much anticipated first installment of an updated assessment of the physical science of climate change.

IPCC的发现得到了全球媒体的广泛报道. 为了一个免费和快速的总结，环境保护基金发布了 这篇评论带有重要的发现.

那么，这一切对商界意味着什么呢? 虽然报告中的内容可能不会让那些已经在努力实现脱碳的人感到惊讶, 这项最新的评估显示，气候变化已经达到了前所未有的水平, 其中一些在短期内已经是不可逆转的.

真正的红色警报. 但, 报告也给了拼搏体育官网客户端希望, 如果拼搏体育官网客户端能在适当的时候达到净零排放, 拼搏体育官网客户端将看到温度几乎立即稳定下来. 

找到回应的途径

As a sustainability professional serving clients in the US - employed in a Danish company with a historic stronghold in the Nordics - I fully appreciate how companies’ maturity towards sustainability and climate action vary globally, 甚至在美国国内.

无论你的公司目前在缓解气候变化方面的参与度如何, there are steps that businesses can begin taking today in response this assessment to find their own green transition pathway. A pathway that hopefully plays its small part in IPCC’s most optimistic Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP1-1.9).

开始:3个直接步骤

对于那些刚接触减缓气候变化的人来说, there are three key steps to begin to take immediately to set your businesses on a path to decarbonization:

1)找出你的足迹

了解公司的现状 范围1、2、3排放 这对建立现实的脱碳战略至关重要吗.

Measuring where in your company’s operations and value chain greenhouse gas emissions are created from energy use, 浪费, and agriculture activities will give you insight into where the biggest hotspots are so that you can focus your efforts on the most significant emissions reduction opportunities.

2)发现业务价值

可持续发展的努力, 对许多公司, 被认为是对经营盈利业务的干扰. 不过，由于投资者的压力越来越大，这种看法正在迅速改变, 增加气候法规, 不断提升的客户需求, 它仍然可以很容易地注销脱碳作为“太昂贵”或“太从P&L’.

Identifying opportunities to reduce your company’s footprint that can also demonstrate immediate or short-term business value – through, 例如, 能源使用减少带来的成本降低, 新的收入来源是回收而不是废物处理, or improved margins from increased product transportation efficiency – will help build momentum for investment in decarbonization efforts. 

3)制定合适的目标设定方法

目前, 以科学为基础的目标 for reducing greenhouse gas emissions – and particularly net zero targets – are seen as the gold standard for companies leading on climate change in the US.

然而, 拼搏体育官网客户端鼓励公司不要陷入“一刀切”的陷阱或例子, 而净零目标通常适合那些面临外部投资者压力的公司, privately held companies without that pressure can sometimes make more progress towards decarbonization by selling offsets from their carbon reduction successes.

Long-term progress on decarbonization depends on identifying your company’s business drivers for sustainability and setting targets that are aligned with those drivers – be they net zero targets, 抵消收入目标, 或者其他能够推动在脱碳方面投资的指标.

前进:3个高级步骤

对于那些多年来一直致力于企业脱碳的企业来说, IPCC的报告可能会让人感到沮丧, 好像拼搏体育官网客户端进步得不够快，或者拼搏体育官网客户端迄今为止的努力是徒劳的.

但, 仍然有很多机会，可持续发展的领导者必须帮助扭转形势, 其中有很多你可以马上开始:

1)协调脱碳和政治游说活动

协调可持续发展和政治游说的需要并不新鲜 CDP has asked about alignment for years – but the need has become an imperative given the urgency of the climate crisis. 在美国的过去十年里, 随着政治对气候行动兴趣的转变, we have seen corporate sustainability leaders step out in front of government regulation time and time again to voluntarily exceed the policy requirements for decarbonization. 

然而, these efforts undertaken by one part of the business often masked efforts underway in other parts of the business to lobby for ongoing looseness in climate regulations. 仔细检查这个“从你的嘴的两边说”是 捡起快 ——破坏公司自身在脱碳方面的投资是一项糟糕的业务.

向脱碳方向迈出有意义的步伐, 公司需要在内部和价值链上进行投资, 并推动政府采取同样的行动.  

2)充分利用你的数据

如上所述, greenhouse gas footprints – as well as lifecycle analyses that help determine emissions hotspots for a specific product or service –are critical to understanding current performance and opportunities to mitigate climate impacts.

但, 真正推动脱碳, 这些数据必须用作驱动业务决策的工具. 例如, what good is it knowing that one product input has a higher GHG footprint than another if that insight isn’t integrated into the product design process?

While it can be complicated to design the processes and incentivize the behavior to consider climate impacts throughout business decision making, the first step is simply to map how decisions get made in the parts of your business that have the biggest emissions impact – be it the product material inputs, 数据中心, 该设施, 等. -了解哪里的数据可以做出更有利于气候的决定.

3)将碳视为一种资产

很明显, we know from this IPCC report and decades of climate science that it is the abundance of carbon – and other greenhouse gas emissions – in the atmosphere that is driving climate change.

但, 随着上述净零目标的兴起, 以及企业对碳抵消的预期依赖, there is opportunity to flip our decarbonization paradigm to begin to think of sequestered carbon and emissions reductions as assets on the balance sheet.

Doing so will allow us to evaluate the real value of these assets against the business as usual scenario and potentially uncover opportunities to generate new revenue streams, 改变商业模式, 帮助减缓气候变化.

As 一位评论员总结联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会的报告《拼搏体育官网客户端下载》. 我可以总结一下吗, 所以做股东, 投资者, 客户, 员工, 以及公司所有的主要利益相关者.

不管你公司的可持续性成熟度如何, 市场, 技术堆栈, 联合投资组织, 或当前功能, 迅速而不懈的气候行动将会得到回报. 现在去做.

关于作者

位于丹佛, 美国, 布莱斯Chorn is Ramboll Management Consulting’s new Market Director for Strategic Sustainability Consulting.

Blythe has been working in the field for years with a long spell at Deloitte advising Fortune 500 companies and prior to that several years at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) where she advised global clients in the realms of supply chain sustainability and ESG reporting.

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