Eighteen of Britain's top companies, including carmakers, airlines, retailers and banks, are publishing a report on Monday, in which they promise to develop new products and services that allow customers to cut their carbon emissions. The report is also intended to send a message to companies around the world to make fighting climate change a higher priority.
"This requires urgent action, and the sooner we do it, the better and the cheaper it will be," said Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT and chairman of the task force group that produced the report. It’s members employ two million people worldwide and have more than £1 trillion in income.
The report is a result of British businesses’ addressing issues raised by the Stern Review , a study commissioned by the British government and published last year on the economic impact of global warming . The review , led by the government' s top economist, Nicholas Stern ,concluded that spending about one percent of global gross product in reducing emissions today would avoid having to spend about five to twenty percent-in the future.
Monday' s report says that the responsibility to cut emissions lies with consumers, who through their purchases contribute to sixty percent of Britain' s emissions, with companies , which can cut emissions by offering greener products, and with the government , which should use tax cuts as a great encouragement for consumers to cut emissions.
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