A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
Gunnar Trumbull
Aug 2025 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Joel Richards
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Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business.
Climate has changed the game for business around the world. With climate-related disasters causing billions in damage and public pressure rising, over 100 nations have set 2050 net-zero carbon-emissions targets within the framework of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Thousands of companies have registered with the Carbon Disclosure Project. In a recent survey of large, global firms, one-third reported that climate change was already affecting their operations.
As managers around the world confront and educate themselves about how climate change is affecting their businesses, A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change provides a single, short, and accessible account of the information crucial to understanding and addressing these new challenges. What causes climate change? How do countries and companies measure their climate impact? What is the role of carbon markets? How are governments responding? What kind of corporate emissions targets make sense, and how can they be achieved? This book presents the basic scientific, economic, policy, and accounting frameworks that managers need to answer these questions.
Climate has changed the game for business around the world. With climate-related disasters causing billions in damage and public pressure rising, over 100 nations have set 2050 net-zero carbon-emissions targets within the framework of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Thousands of companies have registered with the Carbon Disclosure Project. In a recent survey of large, global firms, one-third reported that climate change was already affecting their operations.
As managers around the world confront and educate themselves about how climate change is affecting their businesses, A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change provides a single, short, and accessible account of the information crucial to understanding and addressing these new challenges. What causes climate change? How do countries and companies measure their climate impact? What is the role of carbon markets? How are governments responding? What kind of corporate emissions targets make sense, and how can they be achieved? This book presents the basic scientific, economic, policy, and accounting frameworks that managers need to answer these questions.
About the author
Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For the past two decades he has taught MBAs and executives in the fields of macroeconomics and economic regulation. His research and publications have focused on regulatory policy, with attention to the politics of product market regulation. Trumbull also has a background in the geosciences. Before coming to HBS, he helped found the nonprofit organization GeoHazards International, which assists countries and municipalities in response to environmental risks. In the spring of 2022, Trumbull launched the MBA course "Global Climate Change."
Joel Richards was the kid who did crazy things just to have a good story to tell afterward. On deciding to make his affection his profession, he received a BFA in acting and a BA in English from the University of Utah, and later an MA in oral storytelling from East Tennessee State University. He has narrated over 150 audiobooks (fiction and nonfiction) and continues to tell his original stories to live audiences.
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