Business strategies for climate change

Climate change has become a business reality, and executives should get ready for a major shift in the economy. The value at stake is huge.
Some companies will be winners and others losers in the gradual transition to a global low-carbon economy—a transition driven by regulation and structurally higher energy prices.
A drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in existing infrastructure and products, coupled with the emergence of new low-carbon business models and value chains, will provide many opportunities for business.
Companies should act aggressively where the benefits are clear, plant seeds for future expansion in highly uncertain areas, and try to shape the regulatory landscape.

Exhibit 1: The global economy’s carbon productivity should ideally increase by 5 to 7 percent a year, compared with an historic improvement rate of just 1 percent.
Exhibit 2: A chemical company identified growth opportunities through an abatement cost curve analysis.
Exhibit 3: A different utility business model is possible in the future.

If organizational transformations are to succeed, change can’t be thought of as a single, standardized process.

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