Regulation
- Regulatory related challenges
- Business issues affected by climate change regulations
- Reputation related risks and opportunities
- Challenges to adapt standards throughout a company
- Impact on long-term planning and strategic decisions like capital outlays
- Impact of product lifecycles, introductions and growth strategies
- Perception of regulatory, market and technological signals by geography and market segment
- Perception of power sources, technologies, technology combinations and pathways
- Demand-side vs. supply-side controls such as fuel-economy or GHG emissions
- Market dynamics and product strategies from one region to another to deal with change
- How industries weigh the risks of investing capital on products with uncertain prospects
- Attitudes to different sources of power generation and association with climate change
agenda
Reputation
- Key motivation for change by industry
- Business issues linked to reputation and climate change
- Perception of reputation risk from climate change issues
- Perception of consumer awareness and concern about climate change
- Steps to monitor and reduce overall carbon footprint
- Intention of implementing carbon-reduction plans
- Reputational risk vs. business opportunities
- Impact of Consumer behaviour, environmental campaigns and investor demands
- Role of investor community
- Emerging niche markets that exploit carbon concerns
- Role of competitive advantage in decisions
- Role of employees, regulators, peers and environmentalists
- Established corporate response mechanisms
Consumers
- Attitudes towards consumer perception of climate change
- How companies expect consumers to react to climate change
- Perception of climate change as a mainstream consumer concern
- Strategies being adopted by companies across a range of industries
- Perceived role of consumers in mitigating climate risk
- Expectation of increases in market share from commitment to carbon reduction by consumers
- Role of media reports, increased regulations and political debate
- Steps being taken to promote a positive image of products and services
- Climate change as a loyalty driver of products and services
- Key consumer segments that are most likely to be engaged by climate change issues
Compliance
- Perception of cost of compliance
- Expectation of learning curve
- Global benchmarks of shifts in concern about climate change
- Expectation of costs related to compliance
- Expectation of cost-benefit analysis of business process improvements
- Climate change as a business issue
- Climate change as a strategic priority
- Climate change as a CEO/board agenda
- Personal vs. business perspective on understanding of climate change
- Steps to measure carbon foot print and related energy consumption
- Learning curve and challenges related to compliance
Government
- Role of Government in developing regulatory mechanisms
- Expectation from government for direction on climate change issues
- Expectations on a framework for business to work with
- Measuring energy consumption
- Expectation of pace of implementation of regulation from government
- Expectation of incentives for change
- Role of government for direction on climate change issues
- Business issues and role of government regulation
- Feedback on a market-based system to price carbon
- Awareness and comprehension of carbon trading schemes
- Barriers to adoption of regulatory mechanisms
Extent of action
- Nature of efforts to address climate change
- Drivers of change
- The direct influence of environmental activists
- Predictable pricing signals and policy frameworks
- Role of recycling and energy efficient equipment
- Role of lower transportation emissions
- Role of education and training
- Extent of donations to organizations involved with climate change
- Projections about cuts and lack of experience
- Establishing best practices
- Expectations about carbon offsetting
- Share of business budget being spent on electricity costs (by industry)