Most big companies have set goals for incremental improvements \u2014 25 percent of this by 2025, 30 percent reduction in that by 2030. It won\u2019t be enough to actually solve climate change \u2014 and it won\u2019t be enough to satisfy rapidly shifting consumer expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s why: As my friend Holli Alexander at Eastman wisely noted, Mother Nature has sent us to our rooms and stripped us of so many privileges that we thought we couldn\u2019t live without but that she needs us to live without \u2014 driving, flying, even meat-eating. And indeed, reports out now<\/a> show that our CO2 emissions since the beginning of this year have dropped by 17 percent compared to last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But reports also say that it\u2019s not enough. The prediction<\/a> is that by the end of this year we will have reduced emissions between 4.4 to 8 percent, but we need to reduce emissions by 7.6 percent every year between now and 2030 to keep temperatures from rising by 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Said another way: We\u2019d have to stay in the kind of devastating lockdown we\u2019re in right now, with skyrocketing unemployment, to actually save the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That, obviously, is untenable. Which is why corporate sustainability needs to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Companies \u2014 and obviously governments \u2014 need to radically reimagine the future and their very real role in both preserving the planet and society. And they are linked, by the way; it\u2019s not a forced choice. If we choose to simply get people back to work and not deal with climate, eventually climate change will devastate society as we know it. And, besides, what COVID-19 has pulled the curtain back on is just how fragile and unsustainable our society really is for most people. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most big companies have set goals for incremental improvements \u2014 25 percent of this by 2025, 30 percent reduction in that by 2030. It won\u2019t be enough to actually solve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}