Opinion: If we want to solve climate change, businesses need to invest in our planet
CNN
After decades of treating business leaders as the enemy, many environmentalists have come to the realization that if we want to save the planet, we cannot do it without them, writes Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org.
On the government side, pro-environment leaders come and go. Some have passed forward leaning environmental laws and regulations, others have reversed this progress. Environmentalists have brought innumerable lawsuits against governments for their failure to uphold their own laws yet often we work cooperatively with governments and legislatures to pass critical legislation and regulatory action.
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