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The unprecedented pace of global change is heightening the consequences and unpredictability of risk to business. We are on a journey to define the transformational change towards the way business understand and response to risk and sustainability making use of systems thinking and resilience theory.
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- CSIR, PwC develop adaptive business model
- CSIR, PwC develop adaptive business model
- Building resilience into business strategy, management and reporting features in Engineering News
- Classic Business: Sustainability Week Panel Discussion
- Innovative research project key to Santam’s climate change leadership award
Climate news from ScienceDaily.com
- Today's world: Fastest rate of carbon dioxide rise over the last 50,000 yearsToday's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.
- Island birds more adaptable than previously thoughtThe researchers found that birds were more evolutionarily similar on smaller, more isolated islands than on larger, less remote places. The team had expected to find that forested areas had more numerous and more varied species of birds compared to farmland areas. But they were surprised to find that the opposite was true: Areas with […]
- The price tag of phasing-out coalCoal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans for coal phase-out around the world and discovered that more than half of such plans include monetary compensation to affected parties. This planned compensation globally amounts […]