Adapting to Change: The Business of Climate Resilience

Get an inside look at how companies with cutting-edge sustainability programs are innovating in the face of extreme conditions related to climate change.Adapting to Changeprofiles the current efforts of Citi, Sprint,ConAgra, Stonyfield Farm, The Hartford, and IBM to improve climate resilience, with a focus on five themes: responding to weather; learning from disaster; doing more with less; taking a risk-andmanaging it; and communicating change, collaborating on climate. In these pages, readers will discover strategies that encourage resilience and mitigate risk across vastly differentsectors, both internally-with managers and employees-and externally-through supply chains, incommunities, among investors-with valuable insight for business professionals in all categories. Adapting to Changestresses pragmaticanswers toreal problems that companiesencounter every day. It focuses on the challenges climate presents to the firms profiled and how each company-with the help ofemployees and other stakeholders-facesthem head on. Onein a collection of books curated by world-renowned business ethics expert Mary Gentile,this book illustrateshow today's sustainability leaders are using business acumen to find solutions-whilecutting costs and creating new business opportunities-in a rapidly changing environment.