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Business study: Corporate acceptance of climate change at a ‘tipping point’ | The Raw Story

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a British environmental advocacy group that focuses on business sustainability, said Wednesday that 343 companies listed on the S&P 500 participated in its carbon survey this year, adding that their results show a “tipping point” has been reached when it comes to corporate acceptance of climate change.

The group’s annual S&P 500 Climate Change Report (PDF) found that 92 percent of the participating companies conducted “board or executive-level oversight” on climate change strategies, and that 83 percent incorporated climate strategies into risk management portfolios. Both of those numbers are up over 2011′s report.

In all, 81 percent of the companies identified physical risks due to climate change, and 74 percent “identified climate change opportunities” that simultaneously boost efficiency and profits. In one of the biggest shifts the CDP noticed, 52 percent of the survey’s respondents actually reported making emissions reductions, up by 23 percent over last year’s survey.

This is great news. CDP is a really serious and rigorous org and tracks the largest set of corporate data on emissions out there. Sad that while nearly 70% of the biggest US businesses recognize climate change as a risk (and opportunity!), our elected leaders are still scared to say the words out loud, much less tackle the problem head-on.

Political art from the new Walmart-family-funded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  in Bentonville, AR. (It’s worth a trip!) Apparently the 1840 Presidential campaign was the first to create a mass market for political souvenirs like these brass campaign buttons. Opportunistic businessmen were quick to cash in on the campaign’s popularity - especially among women, for whom the pink Harrison teapot was made, even though they could not cast a vote. And art inspired by the 1896 Presidential campaign reminds us that much of our political debate is nothing new: candidate William Jennings Bryan stated his opposition to Republican William McKinley’s support of the gold standard in religious terms, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Political art from the new Walmart-family-funded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  in Bentonville, AR. (It’s worth a trip!) Apparently the 1840 Presidential campaign was the first to create a mass market for political souvenirs like these brass campaign buttons. Opportunistic businessmen were quick to cash in on the campaign’s popularity - especially among women, for whom the pink Harrison teapot was made, even though they could not cast a vote. And art inspired by the 1896 Presidential campaign reminds us that much of our political debate is nothing new: candidate William Jennings Bryan stated his opposition to Republican William McKinley’s support of the gold standard in religious terms, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Political art from the new Walmart-family-funded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  in Bentonville, AR. (It’s worth a trip!) Apparently the 1840 Presidential campaign was the first to create a mass market for political souvenirs like these brass campaign buttons. Opportunistic businessmen were quick to cash in on the campaign’s popularity - especially among women, for whom the pink Harrison teapot was made, even though they could not cast a vote. And art inspired by the 1896 Presidential campaign reminds us that much of our political debate is nothing new: candidate William Jennings Bryan stated his opposition to Republican William McKinley’s support of the gold standard in religious terms, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

Political art from the new Walmart-family-funded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  in Bentonville, AR. (It’s worth a trip!)

Apparently the 1840 Presidential campaign was the first to create a mass market for political souvenirs like these brass campaign buttons. Opportunistic businessmen were quick to cash in on the campaign’s popularity - especially among women, for whom the pink Harrison teapot was made, even though they could not cast a vote.

And art inspired by the 1896 Presidential campaign reminds us that much of our political debate is nothing new: candidate William Jennings Bryan stated his opposition to Republican William McKinley’s support of the gold standard in religious terms, “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”