Big firms say they mean business in pledging to slash emissions
But coalition’s commitment is minuscule relative to climate-change challenge
22 September 2019 - 17:53
Almost 90 big companies in sectors from food to cement to telecommunications are pledging to slash their greenhouse-gas emissions in a new campaign to steer multinationals towards a low-carbon future, organisers said on Sunday.
We Mean Business, a coalition of advocacy groups, said dozens of companies had joined the initiative in the two months leading up to a UN summit taking place on Monday, which aims to spur faster action on climate change...
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