The United Nations has launched a unique partnership with the US city of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and a wide array of businesses in the region to combat global warming.
NEW YORK: The United Nations has launched a unique partnership with the US city of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and a wide array of businesses in the region to combat global warming.
The world body hopes that it would provide a model that businesses and cities across the world could follow.
The initiative, the Principles on Climate Leadership, will give businesses in the area a framework to address climate change as well as a forum to share best practices to reduce greenhouse gases through, for example, setting company-wide emission reduction goals or providing transportation alternatives for employees.
It will also create a model for climate action in the commercial and public sectors that the UN Global Compact will seek to place in companies and cities around the world. The Compact is an initiative started in 1999 to advance good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization.
More than 20 companies from a variety of sectors, including Gap Inc, Google and Shaklee, officially endorsed the Principles and also announced the setting up Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) at a special event in San Francisco, the city that gave birth to the UN with the signing of the Charter in 1945.
"Voluntary initiatives such as the BC3 and the Principles on Climate Leadership will be crucial in bringing about progressive and robust action on the global climate crisis," said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact.
At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that voluntary action cannot be a substitute for effective regulation rather, it informs and complements regulation.
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