Cooperation between Big Business and Environmental Groups

What do DuPont, National Resource Defense Council, and Lehmen Brothers have in common? Normally not too much…but now they make up 3 of the 14 member strong US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), launched in January of this year. The Partnership was formed to address global warming and emissions where the Feds are not.

The US produces an estimated one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gases, but has failed to sign the Kyoto protocol, and has done little in the last 6 years, at the Federal level, to further regulate emissions.

So instead we have a proliferation of regional initiatives and alliances tackling various bits of the problem; from transportation efficiency to green buildings to state renewable energy initiatives and more – on a state by state basis the nation trudges forward towards some reduced CO2 emissions in the hopefully not too distant future: when and how much greenhouse gas reduction is actually achieved may depend on who is doing the heavy lifting!  A recent article in Grist entitled Carbon-Fixing Trends Fueled by Recession highlights some of the individual trends already afoot such as the building related 2030 challenge initiative.

The Partnership has produced a report “A Call for Action” that proposes an economically based plan to address emissions, especially carbon emissions. They have some comprehensive goals for emission reduction that include mandatory caps on emission, an aggressive approach not echoed in the White House.

The launch of this group is another encouraging step in a series of moves Big Business is making nation-wide to take climate change and global warming seriously, and propose to do something about it, while learning when doing business they need to worry about things like improving the brand value of their business.

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Whether moves such as these are stunts to benefit some economic scheme or are legitimately concern for, and action to improve, the environment, is a question, but the results have the potential to benefit the planet.