Partnerships leverage the complementary skills and talents of diverse partners and likely will be among the required responses to global climate change.
Specific mutually beneficial global-to-local partnerships linking business, government and community organizations can generate creative and innovative responses to climate change more quickly than top-down control and enforcement.
A partnership called the Czysty Biznes or Clean Business helps small and medium businesses in Poland improve their environmental performance, become more engaged in community efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and become more competitive in local, national, and international markets.
The International Tourism Partnership (ITP) promotes environmentally friendly partnerships in the tourism industry that encourage and enable international hotels to improve the sustainability of their operations.
Eco-Schools is a public-private partnership that helps 32,000 schools in about 50 countries apply the concepts of low-carbon living. Students, teachers, and community residents
Global collaboration among private, government, academic, and non-profit organizations manage, coordinate and speed product innovation and help address climate change.
Innovations for Agricultural Value Chains in Africa is an international collaborative approach to product and market development. Rather than leading to another study, the project produces concrete steps to develop and deploy real methods to overcome market barriers.
Two decades ago, a group of environmentally focused investors began working with businesses to raise awareness about the environmental impacts of their operations; now hundreds of companies are improving profits while reducing carbon emissions.