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June 5, 2007 Climate Management Weekly
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This Week's Top Climate Stories

Shareholder Resolutions on Climate Change to Heat Up ExxonMobil’s Annual Meeting
A broad coalition of shareholders is seriously concerned about ExxonMobil’s lackluster response to global climate change and plans to give thumbs down to board member Michael Boskin. (SocialFunds) Read more...

Canadian Wal-Mart Stores Lower Summer Lighting to Cut Carbon Emissions, Energy Use
Wal-Mart Canada stores have begun reducing lighting by one-third, a move designed to help the company meet its plan to reduce carbon emissions by a minimum of 19,000 tons this year. (Press Release) Read more...

Airline Sector Puts Global Warming High on Meeting Agenda
The world's airline industry has opened its annual meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver with the link between increased air traffic and global warming front and center on its radar screen. (Business Times) Read more...

The Race to Save Mother Earth in 8 Years
Business 2.0 magazine's Chris Taylor looks at which business opportunities will meet that deadline — and which ones won't. (Business 2.0 via CNNMoney) Read more...

Nike Plans to Be Carbon Neutral by 2011
The company says it has exceeded its reduction targets for CO2 emissions over the last two years through the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program. (Environmental Leader) Read more...

International Bank Offers $100 Million to Fight Climate Change
The financial institution HSBC has announced a five-year, $100 million public-private partnership to respond to the "urgent threat" of climate change worldwide. (Environment News Service) Read more...

Tech Vets Making Leap to Green Tech
Like a lab scientist tweaking a chemical formula, clean-technology start-ups are trying to create management teams with the right blend, mixing scientific know-how and high-tech business savvy. (CNet News) Read more...

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Climate Experts Speak!

The Economist's Emma Duncan on "The New Business Climate"

"To think about businesses as purely entities that maximise their shareholders' economic self-interest is to miss the point that businesses also are run by human beings, and that businessmen, like everybody else, want to be seen to be doing the right thing." (Run Time: 8:43 Min.) Listen now...

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