Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and has become an area of growing focus in Business & Society. Looking back and reviewing climate change discussion within this journal highlights the importance of time and space in addressing the climate crisis. Looking forward, we extend existing research by theorizing and politicizing the co-implication of time and space through the concept of “space-time.” To illustrate this, we employ the logical structure of “the trace” to advance business and society scholarship on climate change by shifting the focus to a place-bound emphasis on climate impacts and directing scholarship toward climate change’s temporal markers and material effects. By operationalizing “the trace,” we contribute to Business & Society debates in three ways: (a) reimagining complex stakeholder relations, (b) advancing a performative understanding of climate risk, and (c) foregrounding planetary systems and the physical environment.

气候变化是人类面临的最紧迫的问题之一，并且已成为商业与社会日益关注的一个领域。回顾和回顾本期刊中的气候变化讨论，突出了时间和空间在应对气候危机中的重要性。展望未来，我们通过“时空”的概念将时间和空间的共同含义理论化和政治化，从而扩展现有研究。为了说明这一点，我们采用“痕迹”的逻辑结构，通过将焦点转移到对气候影响的局部强调，并将学术指向气候变化的时间标记和物质影响，来推进商业和社会对气候变化的研究。通过实施“追踪”，我们为商业与社会做出贡献以三种方式进行辩论：(a) 重新构想复杂的利益相关者关系，(b) 推进对气候风险的表演性理解，以及 (c) 突出行星系统和物理环境的前景。