WWF's Climate Saver Corporations show lower emissions for profit

New Delhi, Feb 2 (UNI) Twelve major corporations in WWF's Climate Savers Programme are on course to eliminate at least ten million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually by 2010.

If 1,300 more large companies join them, this would fulfil the current climate targets of the Kyoto Protocol, WWF statement said.

''Fighting climate change can provide business opportunities and spur innovation and jobs in all parts of the world,'' WWF's Global Climate Change Programme Director Hans Verolme said.

''The Climate Savers companies show that sustainable development is not an academic concept but something that can be tackled with a profit for nature, for society, but also for the companies themselves.'' The current agreements were with Johnson and Johnson, IBM, Nike, Polaroid, Collins, Xanterra (United States), Sagawa, Sony (Japan), Lafarge (France), Catalyst (Canada), Tetra Pak (Sweden), and Novo Nordisk (Denmark).

A statement released at the Paris conference stated that the solutions to climate change exist. ''As members of the WWF Climate Savers Programme, we have gained significant experience in past years and learned that we can reduce the climate change footprint of our companies and grow as businesses at the same time.'' All twelve Climate Saver companies had pledged to considerably reduce their absolute carbon emissions. Most found that reducing emissions makes business sense. WWF urged lawmakers and corporate executives around the world to move now and reduce absolute CO2 emissions.

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