As part of our Climate Change Consulting, we are also looking at other initiatives in approaches to bring change to our economical and political systems to influence some of the causes of the global warming process our human evolution has started in the 1800's. Here we have collected those initiatives most interesting to us in view of their relevancy for corporate strategy or in a organizational change process.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEPP) to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

The recent issues of the Assessment Reports, furnished by the IPCC, formed the trigger for for media worldwide to bring this development of our own industrial and economic actions of our past into the mind of all humans. These Assessment Reports form an unprecedented compilation of observation results and relations to possible causes of climate changes in our planetary environment. Therefore bringing the work results of the IPCC to the forefront for policymakers and executives.

In our view, executives of Industrial Organizations have to know at least the content of the Summary for Policymakers of the 4th Assessment Report for having some better understanding of the relationship between economic actions and their effects on Climate Change, as well as to have first ideas which changes in boundary conditions are waiting in future to be put into political action. To apply foresight into corporate strategies to prepare for adaptation and changes.

Website: www.ipcc.ch

Global Footprint Network

Vision of the Global Footprint Network is "To support a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint, a measurement and management tool that makes the reality of planetary limits relevant to decision-makers throughout the world."

Idea and Tool of this initiative is called the "Ecological Footprint", as a resource management tool that measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes under prevailing technology. This measure in other words is describing how well our actions fit into the natural cycle of renewal. A footprint value exceeding the available area of some region or of the complete planet means that more resources are used than being renewed by Nature. Meaning a depletion of natural resources over time.

As per the calculations of the Global Footprint Network, our current Ecological Footprint is 23% larger than what the planet can regenerate by natural processes. Or expressed in time, natural processes would take more than one year and two months to renew the resources used by us within a single year. Meaning that we cut our own time short by overuse of resources.

The offered solution to this is Sustainability, by that meaning that being sustainable is that human use and natural renewal of resources are kept in balance. Although this models sourcing is for geopolitical views, a Business perspective of this model is also available. In which the Ecological Footprint of a business organization will be determined. This view is also highly recommended from us, as it brings up the awareness of the individual resources and their sources in an organization.

By that this initiative is especially of high interest for Industrial Organizations using raw materials and energy for their production or services.

Website: www.footprintnetwork.org