[greenyes] Climate Change and Business Community

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Evidence Grows
That Global Warming
Is a Priority

By JEFFREY BALL
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 8, 2004; Page A2

Taking a firmer stance in the debate over global warming, the Conference 
Board, a nonprofit organization whose members include major corporations, 
issued a report citing increasing scientific consensus that humans are 
contributing to the warming of the planet and predicting "increased 
pressure" on corporate boards to address the issue.

The Conference Board, based in New York, is better known for its monthly 
surveys of consumer confidence and economic indicators than for its 
pronouncements about matters as politically controversial as global warming. 
And the approximately 2,000 companies from around the world that make up the 
group's membership have taken varying positions on global warming --  
particularly about whether governments should slap industry with caps on 
emissions of carbon dioxide and other suspected global-warming gases. 
Nevertheless, the Conference Board concluded in the report it issued 
yesterday that "businesses that ignore the debate over climate change do so 
at their peril."

"..."



[Ed. note- Pity that does not apply, as well, to Administrations.]



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