climate change policy

Carbon Disclosure Project: 'World's largest corporations seek cl...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Sat, 09/20/2008 - 23:00

(Carbon Disclosure Project) Regulatory uncertainty is delaying investment decisions and corporate managers want greater transparency related to climate change policy development, according to CDP's annual report.

CDP offers exclusive data on corporate greenhouse gas emissions and climate change-related strategies. CDP is a collaborative effort involving 385 institutional investors managing $57 trillion in assets, their goal to better understand through CDP how climate change could affect the profitability of companies in their portfolio.


 

Don't count on long-term success in climate policy, warns paper ...

EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:00

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Long-term climate change policy in the US and abroad is likely to change very slowly, warns a researcher who calls for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions, according to a study published in Decision Analysis, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.