CLIMATE CHANGE  (CC) is one of the most complex issues facing us today. It involves many dimensions – science, economics, society, politics and moral and ethical questions – and is a global problem, felt on local scales, that will be around for decades and centuries to come. As such because of its wide spread impact it is applicable to many of the course concepts and chapters of management including (but not limited to) leadership, decision making, culture, creativity, motivation, organizational change, strategy and organizational structure.  Climate change in brief is an issue involving Carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that has driven recent global warming, lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and the planet (especially the oceans) takes a while to respond to warming. Even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today, global warming and climate change will continue to affect future generations. In this way, humanity is “committed” to some level of climate change. Because we are already committed to some level of climate change, responding to climate change involves a two-pronged approach:

Reducing emissions and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (“mitigation”);

Adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline (“adaptation”).

Of course the question becomes how best can organizations, teams and individuals address these issues? and what impact will they have on the political, economic, employment and resource environments for these groups in the future?

Assignment

Research the topic thoroughly your bibliography should contain at least 6 to 7 scholarly or industry articles.  Your report should be broken into sections (each clearly marked with a section title) corresponding to these 3 chapters. You should then explore the topic from each of these chapter topic lenses.  

The paper should have at a minimum:

1) Have at a minimum 3 analysis sections corresponding to course chapters.

2) Contain 6 to 7 scholarly articles in the bibliography

3) Conform to APA formatting

4) Contain NO plagiarism (and found will result in a zero on the paper – check your teammates work).

5) Demonstrate a HIGH LEVEL of creativity.

6) Demonstrate YOUR creativity, analysis, and intellect (your unique ideas) yet have these ideas supported by the literature. Papers only summarizing others work will receive low grades.

7) Be an integrated effort of all team members (if members do not contribute indicate this on the cover page of the paper – they will receive a zero of the project).

8) Contain no typos, wording, grammatical or formatting errors (the devils in the details).

500 word analysis from each chapter.

Strictly follow APA format.