Survey: Which Suppliers Benefit From Climate Change?

Published: 30 March 2008

15 pages, 6 figures, 50 interviews

Introduction

This report is based on detailed interviews with 50 climate change leaders in FTSE 100 and large FTSE 250 firms. The report contains rich data from 34 figures covering climate change strategic plans, governance, budgets, key suppliers, key internal functions, expected business results from climate change initiatives and anticipated challenges.

How You Benefit

This report enables people responsible for climate change to conduct a comparative assessment of their strategy, governance, supplier relationships and expected business results with a multi-sector peer group. It provides insights into the UK’s leading companies’ climate change initiatives and provides a data set to present to internal stakeholders who need to buy in to climate change projects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Emissions Verification Services Win Big
Design And Build Firms In For The Long Haul
Not For Profits: Important Today, Less Important Tomorrow
Renewable Energy Suppliers Get Focused Attention
Environmental Consultants Benefit From Broad Relevance
Software, Hardware And IT Services Play A Supporting Role
Carbon Trading Firms Have Narrow Applicability
Marketing Agencies Are Surprisingly Out Of Favour
Carbon Offset Providers Largely Ignored
Insurance Firms Barely Register
Management Consultants Not In The Frame
The Climate Change Ripple Effect Will Hit The Supply Chain

TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1. How important will these suppliers be for your firm’s climate change initiatives in 2008?
Figure 2. How important will these suppliers be for your firm’s climate change initiatives in 2008? (B2C vs B2B)
Figure 3. Industry sectors of survey participants
Figure 4. Revenues of survey participants
Figure 5. Employee numbers of survey participants
Figure 6. Job titles of survey participants