DATE: 4 p.m. Nov. 11, 2008.

EVENT: Matthew Banks, senior program officer, Business & Industry Program, World Wildlife Fund, speaks at the University of Michigan. Free and open to the public.

This lecture will explore how businesses are orienting themselves within the complex and still-emerging “climate change playing field” for business. It will also highlight the unique approach the information technology industry is taking to further green computing practices.

Businesses are mapping out the “three R’s”: Risks (threats to operations), Rewards (opportunities for enhancing profitability or claiming new markets), and Responsibilities (ethical imperatives and societal expectations) that are material to the business.

WWF’s Business & Industry Program partners with major corporations through a voluntary initiative called Climate Savers to develop world class action plans that further define ways to operationalize a business’s climate risk, reward, and responsibility profile and achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions to demonstrate how reducing curbing greenhouse gases is good business and great for the planet.

PLACE: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor.

SPONSORS: Climate Savers Computing Initiative @ U-M and LSA Energy Futures

WEB LINKS: http://www.climatesavers.umich.edu/ https://www.lsa.umich.edu/energyfutures/

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