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(See Appendix A for more information on the CCER.) Following discussions about the need to address issues around climate change education for future business professionals, the NRC in March 2013 hosted a workshop on "Climate Change Education: Preparing Current and Future Business Leaders" that explored issues associated with teaching climate change-related topics in business schools.
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ISSUES AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS Climate change poses challenges as well as opportunities for business and finance and, broadly speaking for the entire economy. Three recent reports by the NRC Committee on America's Climate Choices detail strategies to limit the magnitude of climate change, adapt to the impacts of climate change, and inform an effective response to climate change.1 These reports make clear how responding fully to the climate challenge will influence the economy of the United States (and the world)
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, all the way to offering "green" MBAs or MBAs that focus on issues related to sustainability. Some MBA programs have "greened" their curriculums not only in an effort to meet the needs of business, but also to respond to the increasing demand from students seeking alternative job paths in sustainability, or who consider climate change a salient issue for their career tracks.
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From 1992 to 1998, only seven articles in the top 30 peer-reviewed management journals included "climate change" or "global warming" in their titles; further, of thousands of courses listed by the Aspen Institute 2010 MBA ranking (Aspen Institute, 2011-2012) , only 12 course titles included those two terms (Patenaude, 2011)
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Thus, the time seemed ripe for a workshop to explore the role of climate change education in preparing current and future business leaders, and to build relationships between thought leaders and decision makers in the area of climate and sustainability education in business and finance, and privatesector leaders who hire top business school graduates.
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A second panel of business school deans responded to these demands by discussing barriers and opportunities to include climate-relevant content in the education of their students. A third panel of business school faculty and staff provided an overview of current best practices for including climate-relevant content in the business school Box 1 Statement of Task An ad hoc steering committee will plan and conduct a public workshop to fea ture invited presentations and discussion from leaders in climate and sustainability education from business schools, including educators, deans, and presidents; for profit and nonprofit business leaders from a variety of sectors with varying expo sure to climate risk; human resources and other hiring decision makers; experts in decision support; learning researchers and educators with expertise in the domain of climate, and others to address a range of critical issues such as: • hat kinds of knowledge related to climate change are considered essen W tial, valuable, or useful in business organizations, both from the perspective of businesses and from the perspective of business schools?
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A final open discussion with all workshop participants concluded the day-long proceedings. A detailed workshop agenda can be found in Appendix B
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