Corporate Governance for Climate Transition [electronic resource] / edited by Carolina Machado, João Paulo Davim.

Corporate governance -- Climate transition management -- Climate governance -- Climate change and business -- Business decisions and action to climate change -- Sustainable management -- Sustainable engineering -- Sustainable organizations -- HRM policies in climate transition environments -- Leadership for climate transition -- Managing sustainable organizations -- Corporate social responsibility -- Traditional management versus sustainable management -- Sustainable management development -- Climate risks and opportunities management -- Social responsibility in sustainable organizations -- Developing global sustainable leadership skills -- Innovation and change in a climate transition environment -- Diversity management in a global environment -- Sustainable development teams' management -- Sustainability and corporate social responsibility -- Ethics and social responsibility in climate transition environment.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change. The book creates a better understanding of the impacts that climate transition will have on organizations and how they are responding to find opportunities while overcoming the risks. What corporate governance models can and are organizations developing? What climate transition strategies are organizations creating? Who should be involved in the decision-making processes? To what extent are principles of transparency, equity, participation, inclusion, effectiveness, and efficiency present in corporate governance for climate transitions? These and other issues are just a few of the challenges that organizations by the climate change transition. International experts from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives have been invited to contribute to this book in order for providing a comprehensive and informed perspective for researchers, corporate leaders and students of business and management as well as environmental studies.