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FootnotesThe Economic Case for Climate Action L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions [1] The details of this are presented in Natural Capitalism Solutions, Climate Protection Manual for Cities, p. 15, www.natcapsolutions.org/climateprotectionmanual.htm 2 www.us-cap.org/climatereport.pdf. The report, issued in January 2007 was, in part, an effort to relieve corporations of having to navigate the disparate regional and state-level carbon-reduction regimes now proliferating in the United States. 3 Gary Pfeiffer, Dupont CFO, 340% increase in share value paralleling 60% reduction in environmental footprint personal communication at speech he gave at a Conference Board conference 2005. 4 Alderton, Margo, "Recent report finds corporations that lead in corporate responsibility also lead in the market," Socially Responsible Investing 07-11 17:57, also at http://www.csrwire.com/companyprofile?id=4489 5 From the article "Sustainable Executives", http://www.natcapsolutions.org/resources.htm#ART 6 Fishman, Charles,"How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It." Fast Company Magazine, Issue 108 | Sept 2006, Pg 74 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_lightbulbs.html 7 Jeffrey Ball, Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2003, 8 Daniel Wallis, "Disasters Losses May Top One Trillion Dollars Per Year by 2040" Reuters, November 15, 2006, http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/5460 9 Douwe Miedema, "Climate Change Means Big Business for Reinsurers," Reuters, 14 Nov 2006,, http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38964/story.htm 10General Accounting Office (GAO), Climate Change: Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades Are Potentially Significant, Report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, March 2007, pp. 1-2, 30. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07285.pdf 11 For a comprehensive list of climate-related shareholder resolutions, see website hosted by the Investor Network on Climate Risk, at http://www.incr.com/index.php?page=ia&nid=186, October 30, 2006 12 See (http://www.incr.com). 13 http://www.ceres.org/news/news_item.php?nid=344 14 Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk (2005), Summary, by Investor Network on Climate Risk, website:http://www.incr.com/index.php?page=19, July 31, 2006. 15 Testimony by Dr Russell Read, Chief Investment Officer, CalPERS, http://www.incr.com/NETCOMMUNITY/Document.Doc?id=204. 17http://www.coolmayors.com/common/news/reports/detail.cfm? 18 http://www.repp.org/articles/static/1/binaries/Final_California_GSEXECSUMMARY2_Long3.pdf 19Daniel Kammen, "Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Generate?"http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/04/13_kamm.shtml 20www.acore.org/pdfs/ACORE_Joint_Outlook_Report.pdf, 21 www.apolloalliance.org/jobs/index.cfm
[1] PointCarbon, “Carbon Market Analyst North America” 2007: iv. [2] Hoffman, Andrew J. Carbon Strategies – How leading companies are reducing their climate change footprint. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 14 [3] Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report,2007: Topic 4, p. 9 [4] Primary and Secondary Certified Emission Reductions (pre UN registration trade as low as $10 versus fully registered Secondary CER above $40 (ECX, as of March 2008) [5] An unbalanced focus on carbon count can lead to unwanted effects e.g. when companies claim a reduction in CO2 emissions which goes back to outages and operational problems. [6] INCR – Investor Progress on Climate Risks & Opportunities, Feb 2008, p.1[7] Lash, Jonathan and Wellington, Fred. “Competitive advantage on a warming planet” Harvard Business Review, March 2007
[1] Interview with Drew Schramm, Herman Miller 2 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP 3 Interview with Drew Schramm, Herman Miller 4 Moving the Needle, Green Steps Journal, Retrieved on-line December 2007, www.greensteps.org/steptwo/Timberland.htm 5Creating a Green Supply Chain, Dick Conrad, Electronics Supply and Manufacturing, June 2004 6 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP 7 Interview with Betsy Blaisdell, Timberland 8 Interview with Betsy Blaisdell, Timberland 9 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP 10 How to Balance "Green" With Getting the Green, Drew Schramm, Presentation to CSCMP Conference, October 2007 11 Interview with Drew Schramm, Herman Miller 12 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP 13 Interview with Betsy Blaisdell, Timberland 14Interview with Betsy Blaisdell, Timberland 15 Greening the Supply Chain, Robert Bowman, Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies, November 2006 16 "Bringing the Environment Down to Earth," Reinhardt, Harvard Business Review, July-August 1999 17Interview with Drew Schramm, Herman Miller 18 Greening Up the Supply Chain, John Davies and Steve Hochman, Supply Chain Management Review, July 2007 19 Interview with Drew Schramm, Herman Miller 20 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP 21 Interview with Betsy Blaisdell, Timberland 22 Interview with Judy Glazer, HP Sustainability on the Store Shelf Peter Capozuca, Kathryn Pavlovsky, and Michael Dah [1] http://www.all-laundry.com/environment.asp 2 Martin Spitzer "Sustainability and CSR: Assessing Regulatory Risk" March 18, 2007. 3 Ibid. |
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