How is climate change affecting accounting and business?

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Business, Maths and Accountancy.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Sanjay Banerjee of the University of Alberta in Canada who is researching how businesses are responding to the threat of climate change.
• This resource also contains an interview with Sanjay, providing an insight into careers in accounting research.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Sanjay’s research, and tasks them to create a presentation to advise company directors to begin climate disclosure.
• The PowerPoint reiterates the key points in the article and includes further talking points to encourage students to reflect on their own skills and aspirations.
• In the podcast, Sanjay talks about his work and the importance of being kind in your professional and personal life. It is accompanied by a transcript and a Ppt. that includes questions to prompt students to reflect on what they’ve heard.

These resources were first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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