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Corporate America: We Want Climate Action, Just Not Sure How
Posted on July 23, 2008
Big U.S. companies obviously want a seat at the table when it's time to draw up Americas plan to fight climate change. A year after issuing its Call for Action, the U.S. Climate Action Partnershipa group of 30-odd companies like Alcoa, GE, GM, Ford, and several environmental groupsreleased today the list of nine principles it wants policymakers to keep in mind when theyre hammering out climate deals. But when it comes to the really tricky stuff, USCAPlike U.S. politicians so farpunted.The main principles call for global involvement in any climate plan, and lots of carrots for developing countr...
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