BOOK REVIEW
Book Title: A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
Author: Gunnar Trumbul
Publisher: HBR Press
List Price:$35.00
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication Date: 2025
ISBN:978-1-64782-542-3
Reviewer: Chijioke Basil Oleru
Review Date: December 2025
Introduction
The author addressed issues relating to climate change. Issues like causes of climate change, the role of carbon markets, how countries and businesses can measure their own impact on global climate, how governments are responding, the kinds of corporate emissions targets that make sense, and how these challenges can be achieved.
Overview of Book’s Structure
In this seven-chapter, one hundred twenty-eight pages book, the author Professor Gunnar Trumbul, gives information crucial to understanding and addressing climate-related challenges.
The first chapter introduces a framework to guide business leaders. This framework is known by the acronym SOLAR. The full meaning of SOLAR is – strategy, organization, leadership, accounting, and regulation.
From this plan of SOLAR, the author explores the different operational dimensions to climate change a firm can take.
Highlights
In chapter 1, the author states the reason business leaders are in a rush to the challenges of changing climate. Pressure for an urgent climate change solution comes from a wide range of sources: activist investors, concerned customers, employees, companys’ own CEOs and board of directors. From here, the author introduces some topics necessary to dealing with climate change: climate science, the economies of carbon markets, government policy responses, conventional and green energy and business approaches to decarbonization.
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How to cite this work: Oleru, C. B. (2026). A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know , book review, PM World Journal, Vol. XV, Issue III, March. Available online at https://pmworldjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/pmwj162-Mar2026-Oleru-Concise-Business-Guide-to-climate-change-book-review.pdf
About the Reviewer
Chijioke Basil Oleru
Dallas Area, USA
Chijioke Basil Oleru is a Project and Data Management Professional based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, USA. He graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Langston University, Oklahoma. He is also a Blockchain developer and a Realtor. He enjoys group spiritual books reading.
He can be contacted at basil.oleru66@gmail.com
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