Question

What was Bill Conerly position form  “Business Strategy for Climate Change”

Answer 1

Dr. Bill Conerly says that it is important for the business leaders to make business decisions about marketing, production and finance in accordance with the climate change. Business planning should consider climatic factors such as temparature change and weather uncertainty. Every business sector must try to either reduce the harm or to take advantage of the changing climate.

He points out that eventhough the global warming is changing our environment, its not bad in all cases,  for example High latitude lands need warmer weather for agricultural yeilds. In general, agriculture will need to make adjustments accordingly.

Whereas business impacted by rain and snow such as construction companies must hire a climatologist to help them in making the decisions.

He also says that the developed countries can make a big difference in global warming by controlling our carbon emissions.

In brief,Rather than sticking to the common business standards and plans , businesses should add warming climate as an element of business strategy.