Strategic CSR - CO2

The article in the url below presents the scale of the climate change problem in graphical form. It contains various representations of the relative carbon dioxide emissions of different countries, focusing on the U.S. and China. These two countries currently account for 19.9% and 21.4% of global emissions respectively—figures that are projected to continue rising absolutely and be 15.9% and 29% respectively by 2030:

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The article also shows the disparities between the two countries on a per capita basis (for example, while the U.S. in 2005 had 461 cars per thousand people, the comparable number in China was only 15 per thousand), which highlights the difficulties of managing China’s economic expansion in a sustainable manner:

“Each will have to use much less coal-fired electricity, for example, and opt instead for more renewables. Above all, people will have to use less energy. In the case of China, that means more energy than today, but less than they might have used without emissions curbs. In the US, it means using less than today - a difficult adjustment.”

Have a good weekend

David

Bill Werther & David Chandler

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment (2e)

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The G2: the key to CO2

Ed Crooks and Valentina Romei

484 words

9 December 2009

Financial Times

Asia Ed1

08

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a7fcce0-e439-11de-bed0-00144feab49a.html

or

http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001030214/en/