In a context of climate emergency and calls from the IPCC for “transformative systemic change,” we need to revisit the role of business in helping to accelerate responses to climate crisis. The scale and depth of the challenges facing business have intensified in ways which force us to refocus our research on questions of urgency and speed, as well as the growing need for new and alternative business models and a fundamental re‐balancing of the economy. There is a large literature dealing with business responses to climate change from a range of perspectives and disciplines covering issues such as corporate strategy and public policy engagement. But I argue that the question of the nature and speed of change now required, and whether there are historical and contemporary precedents for accelerated transitions within and beyond business, must assume a more central place in our research. This must be alongside growing efforts to understand how business will adapt to climate chaos. This conclusion implies a closer engagement and cross‐fertilization of ideas with scholars of sustainability transitions, for example. Here, there is growing interest in the question of how to accelerate transitions, but where greater attention is required to the role of business actors.

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快速过渡的业务

在气候紧急情况下以及IPCC呼吁进行“变革性的系统性变革”的情况下，我们需要重新审视企业在帮助加快应对气候危机方面的作用。商业面临的挑战的规模和深度在不断加剧，这迫使我们将研究重心放在紧迫性和速度问题上，以及对新的和替代性商业模式的需求不断增长以及经济的根本性再平衡。有大量的文献涉及企业对气候变化的反应，这些观点和学科涉及企业战略和公共政策参与等问题。但是我认为，现在需要变革的性质和速度的问题，以及是否存在历史和现代先例，可以在企业内外进行加速过渡，必须在我们的研究中占据更重要的位置。这必须伴随着不断的努力，以了解企业将如何适应气候混乱。例如，该结论意味着与可持续发展转型学者之间的思想接触和交叉应用。在这里，人们对如何加快过渡的问题越来越感兴趣，但是在哪些地方需要更多地关注业务参与者的角色。