Thursday, February 23, 2012

Then we get the businessmen involved

Since governments seem reluctant to rein in business to help save the world (in the manner of how climate change is threatening it), the UN's climate chief has a real good idea - get the businessmen out in front of the governments.

I like it.  If the governments (and especially those nasty skeptics like the ineffable Senator Inhofe) see the that businesses they think AREN'T interested in helping slow down climate change actually working to do exactly that, it kicks the chair out from under them.  Because then they'd have to sign on to policies that actually help businesses fight climate change, because politicians always like policies that help business, ESPECIALLY those nasty Tea Party Republican GOP skeptics.

I like it even more.

Christiana Figueres, UN Climate Chief, Turns To CEOs For Low-Carbon Plans

"I'm hoping to accelerate what I call the push and pull process," Figueres told AP in a phone interview from her agency's secretariat in Bonn, Germany.

Governments act as a pull factor by shaping the policies that promote green technology and help renewable energy sources like solar and wind power compete with the fossil fuels that scientists say contribute to global warming through the release of greenhouse gases.

"But the companies, particularly these very, very high-powered companies that ... have the ear of many of the decision-makers and the opinion leaders of different countries, they can act as a push factor," Figueres said.

She mentioned Walmart, Coca-Cola and Unilever as examples of companies that have "looked at their own production and up and down their value chain" for ways to reduce their carbon footprints.
 I really like it.  Now the trick is to get the government movers and shakers to like it as much as I do.

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