"Cleaning up" according to The Economist

The Economist

May 31st 2007

How business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help

THE current row over climate change sounds all too familiar. Germany, host of this year's G8 summit, is trying to get the world to agree on what to do when the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gases runs out in 2012. America, which dislikes the tough targets that the Europeans want the world to sign up to, is proposing separate negotiations between the world's big emitters. Environmentalists accuse it of trying to sidetrack the issue. The line-up is much like the one that led to America's withdrawal from the Kyoto agreement in 2001.

Yet to conclude from this that nothing has changed would be wrong. Attitudes have shifted sharply over the past six years, most importantly among businesspeople.

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