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As governments wrestle with the rules of the game for a greener future, businesses are putting their own playbooks on the table.
Alcoa, a longtime champion of environmental action, helped lead a team of 29 global companies, representing 14 industries, in developing a coordinated plan for how the world’s burgeoning population could live peaceably, comfortably and sustainably on the planet.
The plan, released today and called Vision 2050 lays out what human inhabitants – 9 billion human inhabitants – will need to do to live within their means on Mother Earth.
While environmental activists raise banners and bullhorns demanding action on climate change, the movement to quell climate change has quieter advocates in all corners of society.
Some of these advocates have big names Americans will surely recognize: Addidas, Coca-Cola Company, L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, Chevron Ltd., Alcoa Alumnio, Ericsson, Nike Inc., General Electric, Levi Strauss, KPMG International, Gap Inc., Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Starbucks and Yahoo! Inc..
These are not companies that one normally associates with strong environmentalism, and some have carbon footprints that scare the bejesus out of environmental groups. (Though a closer look would reveal that many also have significant green initiatives underway. Fairmont has built green hotels. General Electric is invested in green energy.)
An analysis of social responsibility reporting by New York’s top corporations found that several of the largest firms–IBM, Time Warner, Alcoa, and Hess–did very good jobs of publicizing details of their socially beneficial actions and environmental management. The lowest scores went to two of the smallest firms on the list — Icahn Enterprises, a real estate developer, and NBTY, a maker and distributor of nutritional supplements — and one of the largest, Citigroup.
Titled “Analysis of Sustainability Reporting in New York Public Companies,” the report from The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College contains Pacific Sustainability Index scores evaluating the environmental and social reporting of the 91 New York companies on the 2008 Fortune 1000 list. The report scored companies based on the reporting, intent, and performance of environmental and social sustainability efforts.
Some of these advocates have big names Americans will surely recognize: Addidas, Coca-Cola Company, L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, Chevron Ltd., Alcoa Alumnio, Ericsson, Nike Inc., General Electric, Levi Strauss, KPMG International, Gap Inc., Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Starbucks and Yahoo! Inc..