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Going green at the topA prominent collection of Canada's corporate elite is going green to help shape the country's plan to address climate change. |
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 [ 2007-03-06 ] |
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A prominent collection of Canada's corporate elite is going green to help shape the country's plan to address climate change.
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives yesterday announced a task force of corporate bigwigs who will look for productive ways to reduce greenhouse gases and protect the environment.
Council vice-president John Dillon says executives want to move the debate past the Kyoto Protocol, which the organization has long criticized as too aggressive in its obligations for Canada.
Dillon says the group will consider industry regulations and costing of carbon down the road.
"I think, so far, the debate on both the carbon tax and so-called cap and trade has been somewhat simplistic," he says. "We should sit down and figure out what makes sense. We want to see a series of milestones that will not penalize our companies in the short term."
The council's Environmental Leadership Initiative is being greeted with skepticism.
Stephen Hazell, of the Sierra Club of Canada, wishes the group well, but urges the federal government to get on with imposing meaningful regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions on industry.
"Canadian industry has basically done very little over the past two decades," Hazell says.
Environment Minister John Baird is expected to announce so-called soft caps on emissions from various industries later this month.
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