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We face a rapidly changing world, a global challenge that will reshape the way we do business. How do businesses and organisations take strategic action and, adapt strategy, to recognise the new reality of climate change?

Can we respond to the risks and opportunities raised through climate change? How does this change our strategy and business models? Can we capitalise on the opportunities to make the most of an uncertain future, addressing highly significant risks?

Climate change asks us to take advantage of a world that will quickly alter. This means integrating Australian and Global climate change responses into strategy. It means working out the specific relevance for us and getting our business to create products and services that meet new needs. This demands direct engagement from people across the business.

And there's more to this than reporting and cost. What are the best ways to engage our business in meeting this challenge? Effective responses start with measuring where the carbon is - but do not stop there. Actions that impact the business, in order of effectiveness, are:

  1. Numbers - e.g. a carbon appraisal or setting internal reporting standards. Knowing what Carbon Pricing will do to supply chain costs.
  2. Material stocks and flows. - e.g. tracking the flow of a material across business.
  3. Regulating negative feedback loops. - e.g. internal and external audit.
  4. Driving positive feedback loops - the more it works the more it gains power to work some more.
  5. Information flows - e.g. peoples personal understanding and stories about products that are creating change.
  6. The rules of the system (incentives, punishment, constraints).
  7. The power of self-organization - e.g. a group creates/demonstrates a new response.
  8. The goals of the business - is there / are there an overarching goal for the company?
  9. The mindset or paradigm out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise. A shared ideal, changing an organisational culture.
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