Directing the disruption

THE PRINCIPAL message of this special report is that companies everywhere urgently need to step up their action against climate change. Its physical impact is already causing many of them serious damage. Pushed by voters, especially younger ones, governments around the world are introducing ever tougher regulations. Lawsuits could yet make firms’ lives harder still. And, although new technology can be expected to help with the problem in time, it will not do enough on its own to meet the enormous challenge of climate change.