Tang, Samuel;
Simpson, Alexander;
(2023)
Addressing limitations in policy instruments for organisational resilience to climate change.
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Proceedings of the 39th EGOS Colloquium.
European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS): Cagliari, Italy.
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Abstract
Although regulations, multinational frameworks and global agreements to tackle climate such as the Paris Agreement at COP21 give hope that the world will avoid the more extreme impacts of climate change identified within reports such as that produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014), the potential to avoid all impacts has passed (Andresson & Keskitalo, 2018; IPCC, 2014; Ranger et al., 2010). One degree of climate change has now shown to be inevitable with the COP 21 Agreement aiming for a best case outcome of 1.5o – 2o Celsius through substantial global mitigation efforts. The question has been raised in the past over the existence of cognitive and financial tradeoffs between an adaptation and mitigation focus (Bateman & O’Connor, 2016). However, as scientists have reported that 2o Celcius is the point where significant physical changes are likely to emerge the necessity of organizations working to promote adaptation and resilience in addition to mitigation efforts becomes obvious (Bateman & O’Connor, 2016; Bremer & Linnenlucke, 2016). Recent research has raised the prospect that rather than a tradeoff, mitigation and adaptation efforts may reinforce cognitive support for measures (Bateman & O’Connor, 2016). Further, when adaptation is considered in terms of the limitations of the pace of societal and political mandated change combined with other emerging mega trends, strategic adaptation planning becomes a very real business priority. Thus, the global management of climate change requires three separate but interconnected processes to be considered and incorporated into organizational operational and strategic management – mitigation, adaptation and resilience.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Addressing limitations in policy instruments for organisational resilience to climate change |
| Event: | 39 EGOS Colloquium, European Group of Organization Studies |
| Location: | Calgiari, Italy |
| Dates: | 6 Jul 2023 - 8 Jul 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.egos.org/2023_Cagliari/General-Theme |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201671 |
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