Thousands of chief executives are holding up their company’s progress towards greener ways of working because they are more interested in delivering profits for shareholders than investing in vital, environmentally friendly practices . As a result, crucial environmental issues that could help save the planet for future generations are not being addressed by the vast majority of people who run our businesses and control the purse strings.
Speaking at a seminar about how companies can best use today’s carbon management principles to greater advantage, Francis Rottenburg of the UK Carbon Trust, said: “Each year the Carbon Trust invites, amongst others, all of the FTSE 100 companies chief executives to a special, state-of-the-art lecture on the serious implications of global warming. And each year as few as three turn up!”
Chief executives of companies worldwide have it within their power to make a tremendous contribution to reducing carbon emissions and, therefore, play a major part in securing tolerable conditions for future generations.
If chief executives don’t stand up to their shareholders and divert a regular percentage of profits towards anti-global warming measures, then they must take some considerable responsibility for the hardship and suffering that inevitably will befall future generations of mankind because our planet’s ecosystems can no longer cope!
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