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Importance of business community driving the discussion on climate change
with Mike Bellamente
Mike Bellamente, the director of Climate Counts, a nonprofit organization that rates corporations on how well they measure, reduce and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions joins Enterprise Radio.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mike Bellamente discuss the following:
- What was the motivation for founding Climate Counts, and what is the goal of the organization?
- As it relates to your ratings, how can you apply what you’ve learned about multi-national corporations in a way that would be helpful to entrepreneurs and young start-up organizations?
- Why do you think it’s important for the business community to drive the discussion on climate change?
- What are some of the fundamental differences between top-performing companies on your scorecard and those performing poorly?
- What is the biggest obstacle surrounding the work you do?
TIP: Managing risk is equally important to entrepreneurs as it is to major corporate players. When assessing risks associated with climate change, instead of looking at how climate change might impact the world as a whole, corporations identify risks that are material to their business specifically (spiking energy prices, cost of raw materials, impacts on trade distribution routes). My advice to entrepreneurs is to draw from the playbook of the big players that have already done some of the heavy lifting on assessing climate change risks and manage your business strategy accordingly.
Duration: 16:11
Mike Bellamente is the director of Climate Counts, a nonprofit organization that rates corporations on how well they measure, reduce and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Prior to joining Climate Counts, Mike served four years as primary environmental liaison for a national economic development nonprofit in Washington DC.
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Bellamente was appointed team lead representing the U.S. Economic Development Administration to conduct economic impact analyses for affected communities. In 2010, he was selected as an external panel advisor for the EPA Smart Growth Awards process; he has also been selected as a panel judge for the 2011 EPA Climate Leadership Awards. Bellamente is author of the 2011 Recycling Industry Analysis for the State of Missouri, the 2010 issue brief A Time For Action: Regional Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change and the 2007 piece Turning Renewable Energy into an Economic Development Opportunity.  Mike received his MBA in International Business from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is LEED GA accredited.
Links: ClimateCounts.org
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