Climate Action - Assisting business towards carbon neutrality

The US has been notoriously unengaged in international efforts to curb climate change, failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and still remaining firmly against binding commitments. This fact sits next to the reality that the US accounts for about 25 per cent of world emissions. Increasingly, though, US states are independently choosing to set emission reduction targets; as of Nov 2007, 17 States have currently set binding targets.

Canada, having ratified the Kyoto Protocol and agreeing to binding commitments, announced in 2006 that it wouldn’t hit its targets. But while the US and Canadian governments are lagging behind, a significant percentage of forward thinking companies and nonprofit organisations are increasingly pressing their governments for policy changes.