Business offers all show and no substance on climate issues.
In the wake of the Kyoto Conference three years ago, many of the world s leading energy companies and automobile manufacturers pledged to accelerate their efforts to improve the global environment. They took out colorful ads in publications to highlight their work. They joined all kinds of international councils to stake their claim as eco-saviors. They channeled large amounts of money to nongovernmental organizations. Most of all, they sought to broadcast the impression that however destructive their record may have been in polluting the environment, now they had learned the error of their ways.