“Green Fluff”? The Role Of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives In Effective Climate Policy
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Tammy Kowalczyk Ph.D., Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Schendler and Trexler express concern that a small number of corporations cannot solve the global change problem, and neither can a small number of countries. We do not disagree, but meaningful progress does not need a fully comprehensive approach. For instance, just twenty countries contributed 76% of the 2010 global total CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, and Heede (2014) reports that 63% of cumulative emissions of industrial CO2 and methane can be traced back to only 90 corporate or state owned entities that mine the coal, pump the oil, and produce the cement.
“Green Fluff”? The Role Of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives In Effective Climate Policy
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- Publication
- Marland, G. , Kowalczyk, T. and Cherry, T. L. (2015), “Green Fluff”? The Role of Corporate Sustainability Initiatives in Effective Climate Policy: Comment on “Science-Based Carbon Targets for the Corporate World: The Ultimate Sustainability Commitment, or a Costly Distraction?”. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19: 934-936. doi:10.1111/jiec.12343. Publisher version of record available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.12343
- Language: English
- Date: 2015
- Keywords
- climate change, corporations, global emissions