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The term climate management refers to climate change-induced business management activities to identify and quantitatively assess risks and relevant sources of GHG emissions at a company’s site and in the value chain in order to initiate measures for prevention, active reduction, and, if necessary, compensation of residual GHG emissions. Climate neutrality is achieved when anthropogenic activity causes no net effect on the climate system, which includes all radiative forcers as well as regional or local biogeophysical effects.
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The theoretical understanding of the greenhouse gas effect as a contributor to global warming was raised about 170 years ago (Tyndall 1859; Hulme 2009). Since then, it is well-known that continuous emissions from fossil fuels would increase atmospheric CO2-concentrations significantly (Revelle and Suess 1957). Human activity is currently leading increasing...
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Horsch, D., Will, M., Brauweiler, J., Hildebrandt, J. (2021). Climate Management in Organizations: Pathways to Climate Neutrality. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71059-4_134-1
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