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Can businesses rally to meet climate targets?
By Matthew Allen, Carlo Pisani

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Multinational companies are being urged to contribute more to the battle against global warming at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.

Christiana Figueresexternal link, former United Nation’s climate chief and now a leading light at the environmental NGO Mission 2020external link, said the world must start reversing the trend of rising CO2 emissions by 2020 and then halve greenhouse gases in each subsequent decade.

Figueres is lobbying corporates and politicians at WEF to clean up their act. “This is the biggest business opportunity that we have ever seen, but only if we harvest it in time,” she told swissinfo.ch at the Artic Basecampexternal link event in Davos that gathered together leading polar scientists and company executives.
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"gaz commented on the content at 26 January 2018 08:58".
gaz 26-Jan-2018 08:58
how long, what one and a half centuries, of climbing up on the backs of swiss inovation, how long can these academics and leading lights continue to bluster and fawn and bluff their way through the mire they have layed down as some sort of a absurdly ridiculous foundation for humanity to construct the future upon and still have the gaul and dysfucional belief that they are in some significant part being constructively productive, i just shake the head in disbelief and awe and the vast majority of people seem to just accept that its a normal continuatoin of process. continuation it certainly is but so far from normal, and so far from a useful processthat it beggars belief that millions of dollars are invested in its faciltated process, in all honesty if i could be paid for such little effort i could continue to work untill the sun goes out because even as a cadaver i would be in the thousands of percent more useful more productive and more acurate ... what can i say i am on the cusp of abandoning all consideration of political and social process and interest in such as its so appalling to be an affronty to humanity
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