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Small firms have a big role fighting climate change

Original article here Back to the Roots co-founder Nikhil Arora (L) is taking steps to cut the company's carbon footprint By Nathalie Jimenez, Business producer, New York For the past two years, Nikhil Arora has been working hard to cut his organic gardening company's carbon footprint, taking small steps, like shifting away from plastic packaging, to make his business, Back to the Roots, the most environmentally efficient it has ever been. The California-based company is small, employing just 21 people, but it expects to make roughly $100m (£84m) in sales this year. Mr Arora says the moves it has made are critical to the fight against climate change. "Small businesses are the lifeblood of the US economy. We power most of the jobs, most of the growth and, therefore, I think we will also power most of the change," says Mr Arora, co-founder of the company, which started selling organic gardening kits more than a decade ago. Corporate giants such as Amazon and Wal...

8 Questions for Your Board About Climate Change

Many board members of large community benefit organisations or medium-sized companies know we should be doing more to fight climate change, but how to get it on the board’s agenda?The first step might be asking your board some tough questions about climate-related risks and opportunities. 1. Do we know how climate change will affect our assets (properties, machinery, investments)? The potential asset value-at-risk from climate change is estimated to be up to US$43trillion by the Economist Intelligence Unit – with sectors ‘across the board’ affected. A recent report by Carbon Disclosure Project found more than 200 of the world’s largest listed companies forecast climate change could cost them a combined total of almost $1 trillion, with much of the pain due in the next five years. This leads to another question. 2. Are we missing opportunities to benefit from this transition? Are there new investment opportunities for assets we are holding? Are there new pro...

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