How Companies are Shifting Climate Goalposts and Evading Accountability - Columbia News Service

Over the past decade, leaders of companies and international organizations have become accustomed to receiving high praise for making large-scale, but ultimately empty, green promises at Davos and at climate change summits. How quickly things have changed now. Fear of possible criticism from the Trump administration is forcing many leaders to change direction — at least in their rhetoric.

How Companies are Shifting Climate Goalposts and Evading Accountability - Columbia News Service

Smokestacks of Ravenswood Generating Station, a 2,161-megawatt gas-fired peaker plant in Queens, seen behind the Queensboro bridge. (Credit: Deep Vakil)   In 2017, Finnair announced that by 2020 it would lower the intensity of its planet-warming carbon emissions by some 17% from 2013 levels. But when 2020 arrived, that target found no mention in the financial statements of Finland’s national airline. The company had set two new targets instead: …