Apple, Microsoft, Google and other US firms to commit $140bn to address climate change

[onehandle]

Source: IBT Times

US corporate giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway and Goldman Sachs are looking to invest at least $140bn (£90.2bn, €127.4bn) to shrink their carbon footprints, according to media reports.

Executives from 13 major US corporations are due to announce the investment at the White House on 27 July, in the presence of Secretary of State John Kerry and top administration officials.

Other companies on the list are Bank of America, General Motors, Cargill, Alcoa, Wal-Mart Stores, United Parcel Service, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.



Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-microsoft-google-other-us-firms-commit-140bn-address-climate-change-1512696

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President Obama on various social media: 'This is big.'

[villager]

1. corporations are sinking money into a threat that doesn't really exist!?

What will the GOP have to say about that!?

[onehandle]

3. First the Pope, now Corporations.

Pretty soon guns will be the only God they have left.

[Faux pas]

2. It's huger

than big!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, onehandle.

[PSPS]

5. While laudable, I suppose, this just shows how much these companies are under-taxed.