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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.” The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk.