Your Climate Risk MBA

Your Climate Risk MBA

Climate change is a “wicked problem” as much for business as it is for society. A low carbon transition is underway, but it’s not happening fast enough to prevent the earth's temperature from rising substantially in coming decades. The result will be a petri dish of business risks and opportunities. Physical impact risks, brand risks from changing public perceptions and expectations, regulatory and policy risks, liability risks associated with an increasingly active judiciary, market transition risks, and even systemic economic risks will become more material to more elements of the business community as climate change advances. The result is unparalleled business uncertainty, and big decision-making challenges. Business decision-makers need far more actionable climate knowledge than they ever needed before.

But how can business decision-makers internalize the MANY conversations and silos relevant to business climate change materiality and decision-making? From attribution science to carbon offsets and climate finance, from natural climate solutions and geoengineering to carbon pricing, from business risk assessment and low carbon pathways to blockchain solutions, the list is almost endless. 

Your  Climate Risk MBA provides a broad introduction to the many relevant topics, based on thousands of hours of knowledge curation in the Climate Web. We started building the Climate Web soon after publishing The Changing Profile of Corporate Climate Change Risk in 2011, the first business climate risk textbook. It’s an advanced business decision-support tool for materiality assessments, assumptions audits, scenario planning, and other decision-making needs relating to climate change risk assessment and management. The Climate Web is the closest thing today to a collective business intelligence focused on climate-related topics.

Through screenshots and hyperlinks, Your Climate Risk MBA facilitates your access to the Climate Web if you want to dig more deeply into lecture topics.

Positioning You for Robust Business Decision-Making on Climate Change

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What you will learn

• The history and timeline of the "business and climate change" conversation
• Why climate change should be considered potentially or probably "material" by large parts of the business community
• Why climate risks are so frequently being under-estimated by business as well as societal decision-makers

Rating: 4.80769

Level: All Levels

Duration: 10.5 hours

Instructor: Mark Trexler