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A decade on from the Paris Agreement, the deepening climate crisis makes business action more critical than ever. Drawing on insights from Cambridge Judge Business School academics, this article highlights practical solutions and systemic changes needed to align business practices with sustainability and drive meaningful progress.

Six classes of risks, encompassing physical as well as other risks, comprise the Cambridge Taxonomy of Climate Transition Risks. The research-based framework will help firms navigate the challenging transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and reflects the broad-based, systemic approach of the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Research by Dr Karla Sayegh develops a model to explain how groups of professionals can resolve differences in work approaches after organisations merge, through both scientific and experience-based knowledge. Professionals have deep, proven expertise so they hold tight to their ways of working. That’s why reconciling work practice differences is delicate and difficult. But it is not impossible.