On September 17, 2009
Climate Change Support Builds, but Will it Be Enough?
There are plenty of people who are apathetic, or outright hostile, to the idea of climate change. But the perception that business is aligned against it is shifting, helped in part by petitions like the one just signed by a group of investors collectively representing $14 trillion dollars. The group’s prescriptions are pretty standard fare, along with its ringing quotes (“We cannot drag our feet on the issue,” says the head of the New York State Common Retirement Fund), but it’s really the financial weight of the members that is intended to get attention. The list of signatories itself is an odd jumble — where else would the Church of Sweden appear beside private equity titan BlackRock and the Illinois…
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