Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Business 'should lead' on global warming, says U.N. climate secretary


Private businesses are better placed than governments to tackle global warming because they can act faster, according to panelists at CNN's climate change debate.

High profile figures in the private sector and the United Nations agreed the urgency to reduce carbon emissions was such that business could not afford to wait for politicians to act.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at the CNN Earth's Frontiers debate in Cancun, Mexico, that business should be "pulling governments along."

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