{"id":5481,"date":"2021-10-04T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:12:10","slug":"business-schools-for-climate-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/2021\/10\/04\/business-schools-for-climate-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Schools for Climate Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a few weeks, the world will turn its attention to Glasgow and the 26th conference of the parties (COP) to the 1992 UN Convention on Climate Change. The event is known as COP 26.<\/p>\n

These meetings have occurred almost every year since beginning the process in Rio almost 30 years ago. The process has had its fits and starts and some would say that it reached its culmination in the 2015 meeting in Paris which produced a global agreement to limit the average rise in temperature to 2\u00ba Celsius and to try and keep it below 1.5\u00ba. We have already heated up the planet by 1\u00baC and urgent action is needed to avoid the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n

Even before the Rio conference, in 1988, The World Meteorological Association and the United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is a scientific endeavour working under the United Nations to estimate the extent of the problem and to propose solutions to it. So far it has published six complete assessments of the situation. The first was in 1990 and the 6th was published just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Everyone should read the Summary for Policymakers of the latest report which you can find here<\/a>. The fundamental difference between this report (AR6) and earlier reports is that the IPCC has dropped its normally cautious and careful language. Typically it would give bad news and qualify it by saying things like they had high confidence in certain findings, etc. This time, the language is clear and alarming. The first finding in the summary, for example, is:<\/p>\n

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I could go on, but my interest today is not to overstate the obvious or summarize the IPCC’s report. Instead, I want to talk about an initiative that IESE business school is involved in which so far combines professors from 8 of Europe’s leading business schools which we are calling Business Schools for Climate Leadership.<\/p>\n

The group is the idea of the former Dean of the Sa\u00efd Business School at Oxford, Peter Tufano<\/a>,\u00a0 for us to work together on this critical topic. Besides IESE and Sa\u00efd, the group includes IMD, Insead, HEC Paris, The London Business School, The University of Cambridge Judge Business School, and The Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.<\/p>\n

The long-term vision of this community is to explore opportunities to influence the leaders of organizations, by :<\/p>\n