After Copenhagen: Business and climate change is an Economist Intelligence Unit report that investigates the current corporate perspective on climate change and carbon reduction issues across a range of industries. The lead sponsors of the research are The Carbon Trust, Hitachi and IBM. 1E is a supporting sponsor of the programme. The report builds on a 2009 report on climate change, which outlined the carbon reduction journey that many firms have embarked upon. In this 2010 paper, we review the progress that business has made on this journey and examine the impact of the global economic recession on carbon reduction issues.