Global companies get serious about climate change

While the world’s climate negotiators craft plans for a post-Kyoto climate regime to be hammered out in Copenhagen next year, the global financial community has been getting big business to assess their readiness to operate in a climate constrained future reports An annual survey challenging the world’s largest companies to quantify their greenhouse gas emissions, assess their risks and opportunities due to climate change and outline their strategies for operating in a post-carbon world, has been run by the UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) since 2000.