New report suggests corporateclimate changepledges aren’t that valuable
A trader monitors offers in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on August 24, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Many S&P 100 companies that claim to care about climate change are either ignoring or derailing policies that could provide solutions to the crisis, a new report finds. A whopping 92 percent of companies on the S&P 100 index in 2019 have pledged to cut down their own planet-heating emissions, but just 40 percent are actually pushing lawmakers to address the climate crisis, and 21 percent have advocated against science-based climate policy over the past five years.
Corporations and lawmakers alike will need to do much more to meet the scale and urgency of the climate crisis
So while companies might sell themselves to consumers as planet-friendly, they're not necessarily having the same conversations with decision-makers who are most...