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Nathaniel M. Arvizu

UTEP

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I hope to discover what UTEP is doing about climate change. I want to learn if there are

special programs being run or specific funding set aside for climate change. I want to zoom in on

the business college and see if they are taking any measures to address climate change, and if

not, why not. I plan to get there by drafting research questions to help me break down my goal

into specific parts that need answering. I will research scholarly articles and academic texts

related to climate change and UTEP. I will evaluate them and see if they provide information that

helps me answer my research questions. I will then synthesis the sources that provide an answer

for one or more of my research questions into a paper that answers those questions and uses the

sources as supporting evidence.

Research Questions

How should businesses respond to climate change?

How does having climate change programs affect business students?

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Arnold, D. G., & Bustos, K. (2005). Business, ethics, and global climate change. Business &

Professional Ethics Journal, 24(1), 103-130. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/27801374

The authors argue that business organizations can have ethical obligations concerning

global climate change (GCC). With climate change on the continuous rise and business

organizations being the biggest contributors to the problem, do they have an ethical

obligation to fix it. Aside from government laws that require businesses to take certain

steps, businesses should also take further steps to prevent and clean up GCC. Since they

destroy the environment to make profit, a portion of that profit should be used to fix and

replenish what harm was done.

Galbreath, J. (2011). To what extent is business responding to climate change? evidence from a

global wine producer. Journal of Business Ethics, 104(3), 421-432. Retrieved

from http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/41476097

The author argues that the main area in which businesses respond to climate change is to

attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change is more than just greenhouse

gas emissions, but is defined as an emission problem internationally. Businesses are only

focusing on the emission problem they produce and none of the others, because of how

governments view climate change. Businesses often have different affects to climate

change, based on region and business type. Despite this local and international

regulations generalize the requirements businesses need to meet, mainly carbon

emissions. This leaves a lot of problems unaddressed by businesses.

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Pinkse, J., & Kolk, A. (2012). Multinational enterprises and climate change: Exploring

institutional failures and embeddedness. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3),

332-341. Retrieved from http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/41472790

The authors argue that climate change and its institutional failures affect multinational

enterprises (MNE) by crating institutional voids and liabilities. While climate change is

recognized as a problem around the globe, every government has its own way of

addressing it. This means businesses hoping to become multinational have to meet

different standards for the different places they are hoping to expand too. With

governments having different requirements for businesses to meet in regards to how they

affect climate change its hard for businesses hoping to branch out to meet all the

requirements. Meaning organizations are less likely to branch out internationally do to the

failings of climate change regulations not being standard.

Schneider, T. (2014). Responsibility for private sector adaptation to climate change. Ecology and

Society, 19(2) Retrieved from http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/26269584

The author argues that it is up to the private sector to adapt themselves to climate change

before they start business. With climate change affecting the weather and changing the

previous climate of places, businesses must prepare themselves for the changes. As the

climate changes it affects a lot of businesses causing them to shut down or slow down

production for a while. This causes setbacks not only for the businesses, but the people

and governments who depend on the work they provide. It’s up to the businesses to

prepare themselves for the changes before they happen.

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Storksdieck, M. (2014). Climate change education : Preparing future and current business

leaders : A workshop summary Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, 2014.

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The author argues that climate change is a major issue in business and economics, and

that it is up to postsecondary business schools to educate on this issue. With climate

change now being a big part of business, since customers want products that are made or

are eco-friendly, businesses need to head in that direction, starting with the new people

about to enter the business world. Most colleges address the issue of climate change

through elective courses, while other business schools argue it is not necessary to have a

course on climate change since it is covered in required core curriculum. No business

courses directly teach on climate change currently.

Victor, D. G., Kennel, C. F., & Ramanathan, V. (2012). The climate threat we can beat: What it is

and how to deal with it. Foreign Affairs, 91(3), 112-121. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/23217971

The authors argue that with climate change being an international threat, an international

set of laws must be implemented to fight it. With climate change getting worse around the

world it’s hard to clear it up since rules and regulations differ between countries. The

different laws regarding climate change make it hard to affectively clean areas that cover

space in two different countries. If there was an international law it would make it easy to

clean up and regulate carbon emissions on a global level.

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Yacobucci, B. D., & Parker, L. (2011). Climate Change: Federal Laws and Policies Related to

Greenhouse Gas Reductions. In H. B. Worthington (Ed.), Federal Climate Change

Programs and Policies (pp. 1-27). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

The author argues that the federal government should regulate businesses’ carbon

emissions and pass laws to enforce the regulations. Carbon emissions are increasing

around the world since companies are going unchecked in the amount they produce. If

the local federal governments were to get involved and pass laws that dictate the amount

of carbon emissions a company can produce, then the levels will start to clean out.

Especially in highly industrial third world countries where businesses tend to have free

reign, it is important to start enforcing regulations on them.