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Article

20 Oct 2015

Author:
Demetri Sevastopulo & Barney Jopson, Financial Times (UK)

USA: White House announces 81 companies support "a strong outcome" for Paris climate negotiations

"Global companies sign White House pledge on climate change action", 19 Oct 2015

Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Nike and Ikea are among dozens of global companies that have signed a White House-sponsored pledge to take more aggressive action on climate change, as part of a broad push by President Barack Obama to corral corporate support for a global climate deal this year in Paris...Although the 81 companies included a handful of energy companies, large oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil and Chevron were notably absent...“It is . . . quite significant six weeks out from the Paris conference to have the president [meet] with these corporate leaders to underscore that the American private sector is squarely behind the outcome that we are trying to achieve,” a senior administration official told the Financial Times...The Obama administration says the 81 companies that have signed the pledge, which includes Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, McDonald’s, Sony and Starbucks, represent 30 per cent of the largest 50 companies in the US and employ 9m people in 50 states...