Gimme five good reasons to go green
- Companies in difficult sectors, such as the oil and gas industries. There’s nothing inherently beneficial about climate change for them, but they realize it’s happening and that governments will have to act – and sooner rather than later.
- Companies that have the opportunity to make a lot of money on selling low carbon technologies, such as fuel cells, higher efficiency computer servers.
- Companies that have a very strong consumer face to protect, nurture – typically the retailers and the product manufacturers. They have a lot of money to make by selling to consumers who want to buy from companies that care about these issues.
- The fourth group of companies is made up of banks and companies in the finance sector who recognize the long term, big picture view, which is that the costs of inaction in the face of climate change will be so much greater than the cost of tackling climate change.
- The fifth group is made up of typically the utility companies who recognize that climate change is here, right now, and it’s already affecting their ability to deliver water to their customers, or other types of services. They want to see governments put the measures into place to allow us to adapt our infrastructure to deal with climate change, sooner rather than later.
The message for Copenhagen: there is agreement to be found there. If business can find agreement on these key points, it’s high time governments were able to do so as well.
Source: BBC
