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Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change

Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change / Samantha Putt del Pino, Eliot Metzger, Sally Prowitt. Washington DC : WRI, 2011, 72 p.

A Caring for Climate report by the United Nations Global Compact, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam, and World Resources Institute (WRI)

http://www.wri.org/publication/adapting-for-a-green-economy

Drawing on the results of a 2010 survey of corporate signatories to the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Environment Programme Caring for Climate initiative, as well as on existing literature, this report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries. It then offers actions that companies and policymakers can pursue to catalyze and scale up private sector action on adaptation. It is ultimately the responsibility of the public sector to meet the critical climate change adaptation needs of the poor and vulnerable; thus private sector engagement cannot substitute for critically needed public investment and policies. However, private sector investment can serve as a pivotal part of a comprehensive governmentled approach to addressing climate impacts…. (© WRI)


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Danièle Revel (21 juin 2011). Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change. Veille énergie climat. Consulté le 13 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/o8zr


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