Climate Costs Are Coming - Is Your Business Prepared?

摘要

New Zealand firms seem to be distinctly unprepared for a future where governments, consumers and investors worldwide gang up against carbon emissions and practices which affect the environment.rnAnalysts say we are now close to a tipping point where climate change's importance to business performance and investors will escalate.rnA new study of 800 global corporates by Goldman Sachs in May this year says "the equity market is only just beginning to reflect the magnitude of change that lies ahead".rnIt is increasingly certain that the world will reach a new agreement at Copenhagen in December to replace the Kyoto treaty, and possibly impose a lower world cap on emissions, and tougher reduction targets as a result.