Our Thought Leadership
The following articles and books were authored by Booz & Company vice presidents and other senior professionals on a variety of topics in low carbon and sustainability.
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Repowering Transport A collaboration between the World Economic Forum and Booz & Company, the Repowering Transport project explores technology-driven opportunities to drive short- to medium-term energy diversification and efficiency in the transportation sector. It provides a framework of key enablers — partnerships, policies, and financing mechanisms — that are critical to accelerate the development and deployment of these technologies. |
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Renewables at a Crossroads The renewables market has evolved in important ways, setting the stage for it to maintain its economic viability and continue to grow. One of the hallmarks of the renewables sector today is its structural diversity in terms of the technologies, players, and geographic regions involved in its growth. |
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Profiting from Emissions Reduction in Process Industries: An Oil and Gas Example A common misconception in process industries is that greenhouse gas emission reduction programs are inherently unprofitable. Recent experience in the oil and gas industry, however, proves otherwise. One company, for example, identified a 43 percent reduction in emissions with a net present value of several billion U.S. dollars using a five-step process that makes finding reductions in emissions both practical and profitable. |
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Bottom Up and Country Led: A New Framework for Climate Change Action As delegates gather for the Climate Change Conference in Cancun in late 2010, they can benefit from familiarizing themselves with the set of tools available for mitigation and adaptation, as well as how these tools can fit together to form holistic low-emission development strategies. By creating and implementing holistic adaptation and mitigation plans at the regional or national level, countries can transition strategically to low-carbon economic development while bolstering their resilience to the effects of climate change. |
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Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change How the world’s cities develop their infrastructure over the next 30 years will determine the future path of global warming. |
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Destination: Green Tourism In an era of environmental consciousness, every locale that wants to remain attractive and competitive needs a strategy for sustainability. |
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The Low-Carbon World Is Already Here: Five Imperatives for Succeeding in an Era of Carbon Constraints The carbon-constrained world is upon us and it is creating structural changes in the global economy. As a result, businesses must respond and adapt to the new low-carbon reality if they wish to remain competitive and prosper in the coming years and decades. Although the exact path to the low-carbon future remains unclear, companies can embrace five imperatives to guide them forward. These are: understanding the effects of carbon constraints and climate change; managing and mitigating the associated risks; minimizing their carbon footprint; protecting and maximizing margins; and realizing growth opportunities. |
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Demystifying Green IT As public and private organizations around the world seek to limit their environmental impact, they can both reduce the direct environmental by-products of IT use as well as find IT solutions for business activities that generate emissions. |
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The Green Way: Technology-Enabled Sustainability Top corporate management working with CIOs should develop a robust, comprehensive, and holistic green IT model that leverages technology to minimize the carbon footprint of the entire organization. Such a program would view environmental sustainability as a business strategy, driving eco-friendly approaches throughout the organization to improve business operations, better preserve the environment, enhance productivity, and cut costs at the same time. |
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Reinventing the City: Three Prerequisites for Greening Urban Infrastructures
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ICT for a Low-carbon World: Activism, Innovation, Cooperation
Produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum
In recent years, many companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry have taken steps to reduce their environmental impact, largely by focusing on their own operations. Those are worthwhile initiatives, and companies should consider measures with even wider impact: Current measures do not fully capitalize on the substantial business opportunities generated by the acute problem of climate change.
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Climate Change after the Kyoto Protocol: A New Architecture for Global Policy
The global response to greenhouse gas emissions will capture the world’s attention in Copenhagen in December 2009, when the United Nations convenes its annual meeting on climate change.
The Copenhagen conference comes at a time when the dangers of climate change — economic, social, and political — are widely acknowledged and when the risks of inaction are growing. Nations and companies everywhere should seek a voice in the negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond.
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Next-Generation Supply Chains: Bigger Steps, Smaller Footprints
Major shifts in global business conditions are radically altering input costs and risk. In response, companies must realign their supply chains around new assumptions to meet the multidimensional challenges of today’s marketplace.
That effort must include rethinking product formulation and packaging, restructuring the supply chain network and footprint, and realigning the role of suppliers and third parties.
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Towards a Low Carbon Travel & Tourism Sector, issued by the World Economic Forum
This study, issued by the World Economic Forum with Booz & Company as senior advisor and research partner, points out how governments, industry and consumers can collectively improve the low carbon sustainability of travel, which will in turn enable the continued growth of the sector and the sustainable economic development of nations. It emphasizes the importance of tourism as a development driver for poor countries, small islands and landlocked states and calls for continued sustainable air transport growth in these countries.
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Energy Shift: Game-Changing Rules for Fueling the Future
Supported by the latest studies, articles, and research conducted by Booz & Company, Energy Shift: Game-Changing Rules for Fueling the Future, published by McGraw-Hill is a visual guide that puts the most up-to date information on the future of energy in a handy, easy-to-use format.
Authors Eric Spiegel and Neil McArthur provide essential knowledge on the forces shaping the energy industry, alongside practical advice for making the tough decisions that leaders in all walks of life will face.
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