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Benefits of Cutting Emissions
While...the United States [has not mounted] any serious response to global warming...businesses and several governments have moved ahead, often aggressively, to constrain carbon dioxide releases...In doing so, they are reaping enhanced profitability and robust growth...IBM, DuPont, BT (British Telecom), Alcan, NorskeCanada [part of Norske Skog] and Bayer...have each reduced emissions by at least 60 percent since the early 1990s...Numerous other smart companies, such as Alcoa, 3M, Kodak [Eastman Kodak], United Technologies, Lafarge, Shell and BP, have also far exceeded the smaller reductions envisaged under Kyoto...