Nestlé CEO: Climate change laggards put the planet—and their businesses—at risk

The issue of climate change presents one of the most difficult decision-making challenges a CEO might face—a case study in balancing uncertainty with costs to bring about changes that will require significant lead times. Businesses like ours that take climate change seriously are investing today because we’re thinking about tomorrow.

This is how automotive executives must have felt in the 1970s and ’80s, when they made the difficult choice to invest billions of dollars to make smaller...