3 reasons why there wasn't a business school for climate and CSR?

• Traditional business schools are trapped in curricula that do not account for the world's physical limits.
• Business schools are also too fragile to risk their rankings by taking chances on climate-related education.
• Climate and CSR require cross-disciplinary programs—teaching that must be consistent, integrated, and go beyond a single module at the end of a master's degree.

Schools trapped in curricula that do not account for the world's physical limits.

Current business school curricula neither account for the necessary progressive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, nor for the depletion of natural resources that the modern world needs to maintain its balance. Yet, on one hand, IPCC scientists recommend reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% per year if we want to keep global warming below 2 degrees. On the other hand, the leaders of TotalEnergies and Peugeot-Fiat indicate, for the former, that its teams' oil production will drop by 30% over the next 10 years

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due to a lack of resources, and for the latter, thatthere will be raw material shortages for electric car batteries in 3 to 4 years. In a world of constant expansion, business school curricula were built on the assumption of unlimited access to resources, and on the premise that atmospheric emissions are merely accounting externalities. Current business school corpuses are therefore not built with the necessary perspective on a world that has reached its physical tipping point. It is therefore essential to build new courses in finance, marketing, HR, and corporate strategy that include these new orientations, which will force economic players to rethink the carbon and energy impact of their business models.

Schools too fragile to risk their rankings by taking chances on climate-related education.

Business schools are highly competitive, and this is exacerbated by their presence in rankings. These rankings are not currently based on criteria such as addressing climate change, CSR, energy sobriety, or digital education, but rather on criteria like post-graduation salaries, the number of international students, the number of research professors, etc. As long as the inclusion of innovative issues related to the changes needed to face climate change is not part of the ranking criteria, schools have no incentive to risk changing their curricula and losing their standing in business school rankings.

Teaching that must be consistent, integrated, and go beyond a single module at the end of a master's degree.

Finally, the scale of climate change and CSR needs requires including this ecological theme in all subjects, in a cross-disciplinary manner. For example, it seems incompatible to teach the absence of eco-design criteria for a product in a marketing class, while simultaneously teaching in non-financial accounting courses that it is essential to consider the environment and climate when designing products or services sold by a company. Thus, a complete overhaul of a curriculum consistent with the climate goals imposed by the IPCC and resource depletion is essential.