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This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the book, the authors develop a conceptual framework in response to these questions. In the second part, they test this framework using multiple empirical studies involving large data analyses of: (a) the U.S. western ski industry adaptation to warmer temperatures, and (b) the effect of natural disasters on the foreign investment of multinational corporations around the world. This book will interest management and public policy students and scholars researching successful business climate change adaptation strategies, as well as business and non-profit organization leaders and policy makers involved in developing and promoting such effective strategies.

International business enterprises --- Industrial management --- Climatic changes --- Social responsibility of business. --- Environmental aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Business --- Business ethics --- Industries --- Issues management --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Social aspects --- Social responsibility

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The new Groundswell report builds on the work of the first, modeling three additional regions, namelyEast Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia—to provide a global estimateof up to 216 million climate migrants by 2050 across all six regions. It’s important to note that thisprojection is not cast in stone. If countries start now to reduce greenhouse gases, close developmentgaps, restore vital ecosystems, and help people adapt, internal climate migration could be reduced by upto 80 percent—to 44 million people by 2050.Without these actions, the report predicts that “hotspots” of climate migration will emerge as soon aswithin the next decade and intensify by 2050, as people leave places that can no longer sustain them andgo to areas that offer opportunity. For instance, people are increasingly moving to cities, and we find thatclimate-related challenges such as water scarcity, declining crop productivity, and sea-level rise play a rolein this migration. Even places which could become hotspots of climate out-migration because of increasedimpacts will likely still support large numbers of people. Meanwhile, receiving areas are often ill-preparedto receive additional internal climate migrants and provide them with basic services or use their skills.

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This report, which focuses on three regions - Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world's population - finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050. It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 million people - or around 2.8 percent of the population of these three regions - could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the slow-onset impacts of climate change. They will migrate from less viable areas with lower water availability and crop productivity and from areas affected by rising sea level and storm surges. The poorest and most climate vulnerable areas will be hardest hit. These trends, alongside the emergence of "hotspots" of climate in- and out-migration, will have major implications for climate-sensitive sectors and for the adequacy of infrastructure and social support systems. The report finds that internal climate migration will likely rise through 2050 and then accelerate unless there are significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and robust development action.

Adaptation to Climate Change --- Climate Change --- Climate Change Impacts --- Demographics --- Environment --- Human Migrations and Resettlements --- Migration --- Poverty --- Poverty Reduction --- Risk Management