PWC's Global CEO Survey Doesn't Even List Climate Breakdown; Only 6% Even Mentioned It [View all]

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In a critical year for action to prevent runaway climate change, one would hope the issue would rank high on chief executives’ list of business risks to worry about.

So it comes as a shock to discover that climate change appears so low on their list of concerns that professional services group PricewaterhouseCoopers did not even bother to include it in its global survey of business leaders.

PwC’s 18th annual global CEO survey, released Tuesday to coincide with the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, failed to even ask 1,322 business leaders about their global warming concerns after only 10% registered concern the previous year. A spokeswoman for PwC said that climate change did not make it into the top 19 risks CEOs were questioned about because of their lack of interest in the subject.

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What they care most about is meeting their short-term growth targets: according to the survey, CEOs are less optimistic about global growth prospects than a year ago, with just over a third expecting global economic growth to improve in 2015, down from 44% last year. Significantly, 17% of CEOs – more than twice as many as a year ago – believe global economic growth will decline.

Ed. - Duh.

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http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/20/global-warming-business-risks-government-regulation-taxes