On the eve of Kyoto policy implementation, this volume presents an analysis of corporate responses to the climate change issue. It describes and assesses a number of recent business approaches that will help to identify effective strategies and promote the dissemination of proactive corporate practices.

Finally, 'Case studies' discusses bottom-up initiatives to combat climate change in five different organisations. This book will be essential reading for policy-makers searching for instruments that have proven business support; academics and researchers analysing the complexity of how business is responding to the challenge of climate change; and businesses wishing to learn about best practice in the sectors most likely to be seriously affected.

Foreword Irving Mintzer and Amber Leonard
Introduction Frans van der Woerd, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Katie Begg, University of Surrey, UK David Levy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Part 1: Introduction and overview
1. Down to business on climate change: an overview of corporate strategies Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute, USA
2. Organising business: industry NGOs in the climate debates Simone Pulver, University of California, Berkeley, USA
3. Best corporate responses to climate change: opportunities for converging climate and biodiversity protecting solutions Michael Totten and Sonal I. Pandya, Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, USA
4. 2003: the end of the beginning? Atle Chr. Christiansen, Anders Skogen, Kristian Tangen and Jorund Buen
Part 2:
Policy instruments
5. Early experiences with emissions trading in the UK Frauke Roeser, WSP Environmental, UK Tim Jackson, University of Surrey, UK
6. Building a greenhouse gas management programme: a framework based on real-world corporate responses The Partnership for Climate Action with Environmental Defense
7. Governmental and industrial responses to climate change: the case of Germany Axel Michaelowa, Sonja Butzengeiger and Sven Bode, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany
8. Environmental management systems and their influence on corporate responses to climate change Rory Sullivan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK John M. Sullivan, Alessa Engineering, Australia
Part 3: Sector analysis
9. Three big Cs: climate, cement and China Joakim Nordqvist, Lund University, Sweden Christopher Boyd, Lafarge, France Howard Klee, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
10. Climate change and the insurance sector: its role in adaptation and mitigation Andrew Dlugolecki, University of East Anglia, UK Mojdeh Keykhah, University of Oxford, UK
11. An institutional comparison of two sectoral responses to the political economy of climate change Jesse Uzzell, DNV, Norway
12. The chemical industry's response to climate change Frans van der Woerd, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
13. Multinational responses to climate change in the automotive and oil industries David Levy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Ans Kolk, Amsterdam Graduate Business School, The Netherlands
Part 4: Case studies
14. Becoming a first mover in green electricity supply: corporate change driven by liberalisation and climate change Peter S. Hofman, Center for Clean Technology and Environmental Policy, The Netherlands
15. Corporate responses to climate change: the case of Fortum Hanne Siikavirta, Pekka Jarvinen, Arto Heikkinen and Heikki Niininen
16. The Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange: a corporate sustainable development programme in New Zealand Bob Frame, Richard Gordon and Ian Turney, Landcare Research, New Zealand
17. Rent sharing in the Clean Development Mechanism: the case of the Tahumanu Hydroelectric Project in Bolivia Christophe de Gouvello, Centre International de Recherche en Environnement et Developpement, France Pierre Mollon, EDF-E7, France Sandrine Mathy, Centre International de Recherche en Environnement et Developpement, France
18. An early corporate response to climate change: a review of a US Electric Company-sponsored joint implementation pilot project Naoko Kubo, Global Reporting Initiative, The Netherlands