Climate Changers Go Lobbying [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
The UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change [3], a group hosted by the University of Cambridge's Programme for Industry, has written to British political leaders requesting a meeting to discuss the development of a "comprehensive package of policy measures to change every major sector of the economy" to combat climate change [4]. The group argues that there is a need for a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol [5], which may be negotiated at the COP14 [6] meeting in Poland in December 2008, and the COP15 [7] meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. Among the signatories of the letter were the CEOs of the power company E.ON UK [8] and airport owner BAA [9]. Greenpeace [10] communications director Ben Stewart responded, "This is hypocrisy of the purest strain. ... If the executives of these companies want action on climate change they should immediately lock themselves in their boardrooms and not come out until the Kingsnorth [11] [coal-fired power station] and Heathrow [airport] expansion have been dropped," he told the Guardian.