Climate action is good business

YOU may have noticed a change in the emphasis of your morning coffee read.

Australians disappointed with Government's response to climate change.

The press has begun to devote serious column space to the issue of ‘climate change’ — including in the business pages. The banks are talking about climate change in their annual reports. As are companies with household brand-names, from Nike and Unilever to BHP. Even market watchdogs, such as the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), recently warned that, left unmanaged, climate change poses risks to our economic stability.

So why this business-sector interest on what was, historically, an issue only for ‘environmentalists’?

Read The Courier-Mail story by Sarah Barker - “Climate action is good business."