More on business and climate change
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I wrote about this topic last week in a column. A seminar sponsored by the Business Council of Westchester and the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County tackled it.
The speaker was Bob Willard, a retired manager from IBM and now an expert on the business value of sustainability.
This morning, Westchester County offered another speaker, John L. Cusack, the founder of a consulting company called Gifford Park Associates. The occasion was a report on the work of the county’s Global Warming Task Force.
â€Ε“The financial risks of climate change are something we can’t afford to be wrong about,â€? Cusack said at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.
Cost is behind a lot of the disagreements over climate change and Cusack quoted Sir Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank.
In a report to Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, Stern predicted that doing nothing would cost 5 percent of the global GDP a year while the price of mitigation would be between 1 to 3 percent of global GDP.
Of course lots of other people dispute the numbers.
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