Exploratory Essay On Climate Change

Exploratory Essay

As a new student in the Business School, I have little knowledge of current issues in business. However, an issue I’ve always been passionate about is climate change. For this essay, I decided to merge my knowledge of climate change with topics in the business field. My first research topic idea I chose was how climate change affects business. Through basic research using google and library databases, I found a couple of resources that discussed climate change and business. Some of the things I found were basic knowledge of how climate change is the main factor of the Earth becoming warmer and irregular weather. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gases going into the air that traps in the sun’s heat, making the Earth become warmer. Climate change is progressing because businesses use fossil

She suggested that I try and narrow down my research topic, and make it into a more argumentative topic with specific problem and talk about how to fix this problem. Something else to think about was who was going to be my audience. She also said that for my research, I should be using scholarly articles and trade publications. The conference really helped me figure out what to use as my resources and even making my topic more specific because “business and climate change” is very broad. With the constructive criticism I got, I made a new topic, which was “implementing green initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases, which would lead to economic growth”. During my second meeting with Professor Sorvillo regarding my project, I told her about the change I made for my research topic. She wanted me to choose a specific green initiative, so now I have altered my topic to “businesses implementing solar energy to increase increase economic growth and reduce greenhouse gases.” The audience would be for businesses who use lots of fossil fuels so they can switch to solar