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"Climate change represents the greatest challenge facing the global business community at the beginning of the 21st century."- World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland (2000)

Climate change is becoming potentially the greatest source of business risk in history. Australian companies must urgently understand this risk, which breaks down into two basic categories:

  • First-order risks are the result of actual changes in weather regimes, leading to for example the increased likelihood of extreme events such as hurricanes and cyclones, which can significantly disrupt normal business activity.
  • Second-order risks are potentially even more hazardous, and relate to changes in the behaviour of a company's stakeholders in response both to the threat and experience of climate change.

As companies' vulnerability to climate change becomes clearer, pressure is mounting for them to disclose their exposure to these risks and to report on their management strategies. Governments, investors, customers, employees and suppliers are among those demanding greater transparency.

The result is that climate change already represents a material risk to many companies - and not just major emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In turn, businesses that do not respond robustly to these demands may be putting shareholder value at risk, and could see the market place a discount on their share price.

Yet climate change also presents significant opportunities. The growing demand for products and services that mitigate or offset the negative effects of climate change could translate into the biggest new market in history.

As we move rapidly towards a carbon-constrained global economy, featuring a proliferation of carbon trading schemes and similar mechanisms, there is only one way to protect and enhance stakeholder value. That is to design and implement a robust and effective carbon management strategy.

Robust carbon management addresses the foreseeable impacts of climate change on a company's business environment and helps organisations manage the transition to a fully carbon conscious business over the long-term. Robust carbon management requires an organisation to embrace the following activities:

  1. Measure and monitor carbon emissions and abatement successes
  2. Have carbon emissions and abatement activities audited and independently verified
  3. Forecast emissions and set reduction targets
  4. Report carbon data internally and externally and put in place a clear carbon communication strategy
  5. Assign costs to abatement opportunities to ascertain the true cost of carbon to the organisation
  6. Price carbon into investment decisions to quantify carbon exposure and minimise the potential for liability shocks
  7. Empower executives to oversee carbon management, drive abatement and pursue carbon management opportunities
  8. Track competitor responses and their impact on the business landscape
  9. Identify and leverage new carbon opportunities
  10. Review progress against targets and amend climate change strategy as necessary

Source: PwC Carbon Management Services 'Carbon Value; Robust carbon management - a framework to protect and enhance shareholder value in response to climate change' 2007

Our Climate Change commitment!

Unlike our competitors we don’t dance around it, we have a clear position.

WE ARE A CLIMATE NEUTRAL BUSINESS!

Our philosophy is a three-fold approach: Reduce, Renew and Neutralise.

When we buy our renewable energy credits, we are putting renewable energy back into the power grid to replace the energy from fossil fuels that our business has used. Our money goes only to new and accredited renewable energy projects, such as wind farms, which creates further demand for renewable energy products.

What we do for our customers:

We help our customers neutralise the carbon emissions from their car at the same time as contributing to growing the renewable energy industry.

Our online calculator quickly determines how many carbon credits are required to neutralise the emissions of your car.

The carbon credits we purchase on your behalf come only from accredited and new renewable energy projects. Which means when you buy credits, you are not only neutralising your own emissions, but you are also contributing to the growth of the renewable energy industry, which is the long-term solution for global warming.

Interested in neutralising the carbon emissions from your home, business, car, travel or any other activity that uses energy? Give us a call on 1300 885 074, click here to book a call or send us an email to green@aspirebenefits.com.au


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