Climate Change and Business - Our Perspective
Based on below perspectives, we have founded the Japan-CLP to urge the industrial community to develop a sound sense of urgency on the issue of climate change and to initiate more proactive actions.
- A sense of urgency towards climate change
- Climate change is a critical risk for human society and, at the same time, a global challenge that must be tackled urgently, which may involve significant social and economic structural changes.
Actions must be undertaken promptly to achieve economic development alongside drastic CO2 reductions while realizing a prosperous society.
Global greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by half by the year 2050, and emissions need to peak out at the earliest possible stage, under an agreement between developed and developing countries.
- Climate change from a business standpoint
- The shift to a sustainable low-carbon society represents a change comparable to the industrial revolution, and we regard a carbon-constrained society to be the precondition for future corporate management.
The transformation to a sustainable low-carbon society will also open up new business opportunities driven by appropriate policies and frameworks, and the proactive engagement of corporations.
The COP15, which is expected to set a clear post-Kyoto direction and build a long-term climate change policy framework, will have a significant impact not only on the implementation of effective climate change measures, but also on the execution of future corporate management.