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Article

8 May 2015

Author:
Aron Cramer, BSR

BSR CEO highlights 3 things business can do to shape positive climate policy before Paris summit

"Three Things Business Can Do to Shape Positive Climate Policy on the Road to Paris",

There are three crucial ways that companies will help determine how successful Paris turns out to be.  First, as an engine of innovation, business can contribute new technologies, business models, products, and services that will make it possible to achieve government-set mandates and goals...Second, business can catalyze cross-sector partnerships that ensure systemic change, rather than demonstration projects...Finally, business has the (often underutilized) ability to call for more ambitious public policy. BSR is working with six other business networks, and several leading companies, through the We Mean Business coalition to call on governments to achieve bold, ambitious outcomes at Paris...