Abstract
News Analysis Although Congress hasn't passed legislation affecting greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change, some large corporations are taking concrete steps to address the issue. Over the past two years, U.S. companies from a broad range of business sectors have begun to make strong commitments to reduce their own emissions of greenhouse gases and to invest in renewable energy technologies. At the same time, a number of firms have resigned from the Washington, D.C.-based Global Climate Coalition (GCC)—the industry trade group best known for public relations campaigns that oppose the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and are designed to raise doubts about the reality of global warming. U.S. companies are making these moves for a variety of reasons. First, they are finding it harder and harder to brush aside the reality of climate change. Nearly all scientists who have published research on this issue agree that the ...
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