Corporate Push for Action Against Warming
It was good to see that for once COMPANIES are urging for action against warming instead of the government urging companies to lower emissions to slow down global warming. This is exactly what we need for big change, especially because it’s coming from high greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions leaders, such as Volvo and General Electric.
Image: Jeffery Sterba, with PNM Resources, right, speaks at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2007. The chief executives of 10 major corporations, on the eve of the State of the Union address, urged President Bush to support mandatory reductions in climate-changing pollution and establish reductions targets. From right are, Sterba, Peter Darbee of PG&E Corp, Eileen Claussen with Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Jim Owens of Caterpillar, Inc., and Richard Fuld, Jr. of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
The leaders of about one-hundred worldwide corporations such as the ones above called just last Tuesday for immediate and strong action taken to help prevent global warming through this lowering of greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting was held at Columbia University where these companies, all members of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change which was formed in 2004, endorsed a formal statement to fight against climate change caused by everyone and to fight for clean energy. According to Jeffrey Sachs who created the Global Roundtable,
The statement by the international business community seeks to lay out a framework for global action to mitigate the impact of human-made climate change without adversely affecting energy and economic growth.
The permanent plan is hoped to be put in place by 2012, and it helps businesses predict for the future as well as help the environment. It basically
calls on governments to set scientifically informed targets for reduced global emissions and concentrations of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases and to take immediate action in pursuit of those targets.
It is good that these fields that produce large emissions are finally realizing the potential of what they can do to help save the environment, as many of the companies said they were feeling that they were recognizing that they were part of this problem and recognized that they needed to be part of the solution. Many of the leaders even feel that this is a moral issue, which is great to hear from people other than environmentalists or the EPA, who are oftentimes against these great emissions of greenhouse gases leaders. Executives of companies have been doing much within the past few months as well, urging Congress to set limits even this year. Hopefully, this meeting will make its mark and strong effort from the corporations will continue, so ultimately some drastic will take place to reverse the Earth’s downward spiral.
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February 25, 2007 at 10:11 pm
I am happy to see that some companies are responding to global warming. Maybe that will show other big-time corporations that they too can step up to the plate and fight against global warming. These companies can help to save the environment and they are finally realizing it.