A great turn of great business. Corporations do not want to pay anymore. Trump effect?

Large corporations do not want to incur the costs of fighting climate change – this is the result of the report “Ernst & Young barometer”. 1400 companies from 51 countries took part in the study.

Companies say no “climate protection: The document shows that corporations pay short -term profits above climate -related threats. Most large companies did not develop plans to alleviate climate change. 41 percent of the surveyed companies adopted such plans.

Corporations do not want to incur costs: The most companies that do not want to bear the cost of fighting climate change is in Great Britain and the European Union – writes Rzeczpospolita. The largest ribbon dioxide issuers, i.e. China and the United States.

Trump effect? Let us remind you that Donald Trump in your inaugural speech He announced the US exit from the Paris Agreement of 2015. According to it, the rule agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the level from before the industrial era. “It turns out that, like in many other issues, Trump is here the expression of the expectations of great business” – we read in” Rz “.

Increase in greenhouse gas emissions: – the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement will lead to growth of global greenhouse gas emissionsbut it can increase the competitiveness of the American economy – comments Oliwia Komada from the EY Economic Analysis Team. Let us add that in your inaugural speech Trump threw the famous slogan “Drill, Baby, Drill”that is, “we will drill, treasure, drilling” in the context of the search for crude oil.

Europe too “no”? In addition, reluctance to climate policy is also increasingly visible in Europe. During the recent summit in Berlin European People’s Party (EPL)i.e. the greatest political force in the European Parliament, appealed to the return to the EU climate policy before 2019. EPP includes, among others Civic Coalition and the Polish People’s Party.

See also: Read more about the declarations of Donald Trump in the text

Sources: IAR

Source: Gazeta

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