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Board’s agenda for addressing Climate Change and Environmental Risks: Driving towards a Greener Society [Theme Paper]
Preserving the health of the Earth’s planetary environment and ensuring the collective survival of humankind and various life forms and systems upon which we depend remain pressing priorities. The purpose of this Theme Paper is to explore areas on the agenda of the 25th International Conference on Environment Management and Climate Change. It suggests issues and questions that directors, speakers, and other participants might wish to consider ahead of the event and discuss with their peers. It includes references to recent investigations and studies related to the conference’s agenda. When reading claims, proposals and reports relating to corporate environmental and climate action a degree of caution and scepticism is often advisable. Evidence presented may be selected to portray what has been done in the best possible light. Directors should consider the source and purpose of board papers and other documents and be alert to the possibilities of hidden agendas, ulterior motives, and self-interests. More directors are having to look beyond familiar boardrooms, ensure buy-in from C-suit executives, and collaborate with like-minded allies and partners. In some circumstances a common external threat can bring those affected together. It may encourage co-operation, where perspectives of its drivers or causes and appropriate, desired and affordable responses are shared. Perhaps the key question now is whether in democracies and competitive markets with customers and electorates demanding ever more, business and political leaders will have the courage to take difficult decisions that will enable us to survive in the face of multiple environmental risks and existential threats
Comment On "drought-induced Reduction In Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production From 2000 Through 2009"
Zhao and Running (Reports, 20 August 2010, p. 940) reported a reduction in global terrestrial net primary production (NPP) from 2000 through 2009. We argue that the small trends, regional patterns, and interannual variations that they describe are artifacts of their NPP model. Satellite observations of vegetation activity show no statistically significant changes in more than 85% of the vegetated lands south of 70° N during the same 2000 to 2009 period.3336046Zhao, M.S., Running, S.W., (2010) Science, 329, p. 940Nunes, E.L., (2008), www.biosfera.dea.ufv.br/phtm/teses/pdf/DS_EdsonNunes.pdf, thesis, Federal University of Vicosa available atCosta, M.H., Nunes, E.L., Senna, M.C.A., Imbuzeiro, H.M.A., (2009) Brazilian J. Meteorol., 24, p. 179Turner, D.P., (2006) Remote Sens. Environ., 102, p. 282Vieira, S., (2004) Oecologia, 140, p. 468Aragão, L.E.O.C., (2009) Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, p. 2441Zhao, M.S., Heinsch, F.A., Nemani, R.R., Running, S.W., (2005) Remote Sens. Environ., 95, p. 164Samanta, A., (2010) Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, pp. L05401Phillips, O.L., (2009) Science, 323, p. 1344Llovel, W., Becker, M., Cazenave, A., Cretaux, J.F., Ramillien, G., (2010) C. R. Geosci., 342, p. 179Myneni, R.B., Hall, F.G., Sellers, P.J., Marshak, A.L., (1995) IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 33, p. 481Tucker, C.J., Fung, I.Y., Keeling, C.D., Gammon, R.H., (1986) Nature, 319, p. 195Myneni, R.B., Keeling, C.D., Tucker, C.J., Asrar, G., Nemani, R.R., (1997) Nature, 386, p. 698Nemani, R.R., (2003) Science, 300, p. 1560Ciais, P., (2005) Nature, 437, p. 52