This chapter addresses the relationship between economics and culture, the role of culture in environmental protection and sustainability, and the need to address environmental stewardship with stakeholder engagement, inclusive of regulatory channels (macro), grassroots educational campaigns...

This chapter leverages the power of the stock market and its investors to generate climate transformation through the proposal of a new tax incentive. The incentive aims to support climate-focused companies in their development of innovative technologies and practices that promote a cleaner...

The US banking sector is working to mitigate and adapt to climate change. This is a relatively recent occurrence resulting from several drivers, including growing stakeholder calls for climate and environmental accountability, climate action progress by peer banks and other financial...

Climate action faces the dual challenge of scaling up and accelerating multi-level collaboration. Current approaches to work across sectors are insufficient in dealing with turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity. We, therefore, propose the Climate Sprint Model. Grounded in organization...

By addressing the gaps in the circular ocean plastic supply chain, blue economy industries can be incubated and existing ones augmented to create multi-level climate action. These changes not only address the immediate environmental problem of plastic pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...

This chapter provides an overview of the existing community-based adaptation (CBA) and private adaptation initiatives in southern coastal areas of Bangladesh, a developing economy that is highly vulnerable to global climate change-induced natural disaster risks. Evidence shows that CBA at micro,...

Climate action planning at the city level is one of the most immediate and powerful methods for responding to global climate change. Sunnyvale, California, a medium-sized city in Silicon Valley has adopted four key strategies - promoting clean energy, decarbonizing buildings, decarbonizing...

Recent studies suggest that firms can reduce their impact on the natural environment through the creative deployment of technologies that create, use, transmit, or source electronic data. While this work on digital sustainability is promising, so far it remained unclear how firms can leverage...

Our emphasis is on the expansion of multi-level, non-formal educational endeavors concentrated on sustainability, resilience, and climate change (SRC) issues in communities throughout the United States. Non-formal learning is an educational experience that occurs outside mainstream academic...

Climate change underpins research, practice, and education in sustainability. Mitigation of climate change is implicit in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), as well as in the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). Therefore, an understanding of...