Your Climate Risk Mba

Explore why climate change is important to business decision-making, and what business can do about it

What you'll learn
The history and timeline of the "business and climate change" conversation
Why climate change should be considered potentially or probably "material" by large parts of the business community
Why climate risks are so frequently being under-estimated by business as well as societal decision-makers
How the business community is responding to climate change
Tools and resources available to support business climate change decision-making
Requirements
No climate change or business experience needed.
Description
Climate change is a “wicked problem” as much for business as it is for society. A low carbon transition is underway, but it’s not happening fast enough to prevent the earth's temperature from rising substantially in coming decades. The result will be a petri dish of business risks and opportunities. Physical impact risks, brand risks from changing public perceptions and expectations, regulatory and policy risks, liability risks associated with an increasingly active judiciary, market transition risks, and even systemic economic risks will become more material to more elements of the business community as climate change advances. The result is unparalleled business uncertainty, and big decision-making challenges. Business decision-makers need far more actionable climate knowledge than they ever needed before.But how can business decision-makers, or anyone wanting to understand the MANY conversations and silos relevant to business climate change materiality and decision-making, do so? From attribution science to carbon offsets and climate finance, from natural climate solutions and geoengineering to carbon pricing, from business risk assessment and low carbon pathways to blockchain solutions, the list is almost endless.  Everyone's Climate Change MBA provides a broad introduction to the many relevant topics, based on thousands of hours of knowledge curation. In today’s information-deluged world, no book can be comprehensive enough or remain current long enough to successfully deliver the actionable knowledge business decision-makers need about climate change. That’s why, soon after publishing The Changing Profile of Corporate Climate Change Risk in 2011, the first climate risk textbook, the Climatographers started building the Climate Web. It’s an advanced business decision-support tool for materiality assessments, assumptions audits, scenario planning, and other decision-making needs relating to climate change risk assessment and management. The Climate Web is the closest thing today to a collective business intelligence focused on climate-related topics. Everyone's Climate Change MBA builds on the Climate Web and facilitates access to its more than 20,000 hours of business-relevant climate knowledge curation. Including: Exploring climate change as a business issue.   Understanding the differences between societal and business thinking about climate change risks and risk management. Surveying the "Trillion Dollar Questions" that will determine climate change outcomes. Exploring the spectrum of business impact, risk, and response topics and variables that business decision-making has to address.Understanding sector-specific perspectives on climate change. Assessing the business implications of alternative climate targets and scenarios. Preparing companies to manage the deep uncertainties associated with climate change. 

Overview

Section 1: A Quick Chat About the Course

Lecture 1 A Quick Chat About the Course

Section 2: Introducing the Instructor - Laying Out the Course

Lecture 2 Course Introduction

Lecture 3 Why This Course in 2023?

Lecture 4 Introduction to the Climate Web

Lecture 5 Getting the Most Out of the Course

Section 3: Introducing the Topic of Risk, and Climate Risk in Particular

Lecture 6 A Risk-Based Approach to Thinking About Climate Change

Section 4: The Trillion Dollar Questions of Climate Change Mitigation

Lecture 7 The Trillion Dollar Questions of Climate Change

Lecture 8 The Trillion Dollar Questions of Climate Change

Lecture 9 The Trillion Dollar Questions of Climate Change

Section 5: Climate Knowns and Unknowns

Lecture 10 Climate Science Knowns and Unknowns

Lecture 11 Introducing Climate Models

Lecture 12 Evaluating Climate Model Results

Lecture 13 Other Known Knowns

Lecture 14 Climate Change Knowns and Unknowns

Lecture 15 Tipping Points - a Known Unknown

Lecture 16 The Unknown Unknowns of Climate Change

Section 6: The Fingerprint of Climate Change

Lecture 17 The Fingerprint of Climate Change

Lecture 18 The Fingerprint of Climate Change

Section 7: Climate Futures

Lecture 19 Climate futures Known and Unknowns

Lecture 20 Climate Futures Storylines

Lecture 21 Changing Probabilities - A Known Unknown

Lecture 22 Changing Probabilities - a Known Unknown

Lecture 23 Attribution Science - a Known Unknown

Lecture 24 Forecasting a Future Global Temperature

Lecture 25 What About Long-Term Change

Section 8: Climate Change as Societal Risk

Lecture 26 Lead-In to Societal Climate Risks

Lecture 27 How Sensitive Are We to Climate Change?

Lecture 28 Climate Change and National Security

Lecture 29 Climate Change and Real Estate

Lecture 30 Climate Economics Known and Unknowns

Lecture 31 Social Cost of Carbon

Lecture 32 Systemic Risk

Section 9: Climate Change as Business Risk

Lecture 33 Business Risk Knowns and Unknowns

Lecture 34 History of the Business Risk Conversation

Lecture 35 Unacceptable Physical Risks to Business

Lecture 36 Transition Risk Case Study

Lecture 37 Transition Risk

Lecture 38 Litigation and Liability as Business Risk

Lecture 39 Brand Risk

Lecture 40 Business Sectoral Risks

Lecture 41 Business Sectoral Risks

Lecture 42 Marginal Abatement Cost Curves

Section 10: Barriers to Climate Action

Lecture 43 The Psychology of Climate Change

Lecture 44 Other Barriers to Climate Action

Lecture 45 Climate Change as a Wicked Problem

Section 11: Under-Estimating Climate Risks

Lecture 46 An Overview of Under-Estimating Climate Risk

Lecture 47 A Deeper Dive into Under-Estimating Climate Risks

Section 12: Climate Solutions

Lecture 48 Will We Actually Decarbonize?

Lecture 49 Introducing Climate Solutions

Lecture 50 Carbon Pricing as Solution

Lecture 51 Electrify Everything as Solution

Lecture 52 100% Renewable Energy

Lecture 53 Collective vs. Individual Action

Lecture 54 Technology Innovation as Solution

Lecture 55 Climate Change Adaptation

Lecture 56 Climate Engineering

Lecture 57 What Would Really Matter?

Section 13: Business Risk Management Responses

Lecture 58 Business Climate Responses

Lecture 59 Six Business Americas?

Lecture 60 Climate Denials as Business Risk Management

Lecture 61 Greenwashing and Greenwishing as Business Risk Management

Lecture 62 ESG as Business Response

Lecture 63 Business Carbon Footprint Reduction as Risk Management

Lecture 64 Net Zero as Business Risk Management

Lecture 65 Carbon Offsets as Business Risk Management

Lecture 66 Sovereign Carbon as Business Risk Management

Lecture 67 Internal Carbon Pricing

Lecture 68 Risk Disclosure as Business Response

Lecture 69 Stress Testing as Business Risk Management

Lecture 70 Policy Advocacy as Business Risk Management

Lecture 71 Best Corporate Risk Management Practice

Section 14: Business Tools for Tackling Climate Change

Lecture 72 Business Climate Tools

Lecture 73 Scenario Planning

Lecture 74 Other Business Tools

Section 15: Concluding the Course

Lecture 75 Conclusions and TakeAways

Section 16: Digging Deeper into the Climate Web to Explore Business Topics

Lecture 76 A High-Level Systems-Thinking Look at Climate Change in the Climate Web

Lecture 77 Part 1 - Tackling a Wicked Problem with the Climate Web

Lecture 78 Part 2 - How the Climate Web Delivers Actionable Knowledge

Lecture 79 Part 3 - How the Climate Web Helps You Understand a Wicked Problem

Lecture 80 Bonus Resources

Anyone wanting to understand the relevance of climate change to business generally as well as individual sectors, and the relevance of business action to tackling climate change.