INDUSTRY WARMS TO CLIMATE-CHANGE ACTION

摘要

When jonh browne,group chief executive of British Petroleum Co. PLC (now BP Amoco PLC) proclaimed in May 1997 that the time had come "to go beyond analysis, to seek solutions, and to take action" on global climate change, shock waves reverberated throughout business, government, and the environmental community. Here was a major multinational company—an oil company, no less—breaking ranks with what was then the virtually unanimous industry position: skepticism, if not denial, of a global-warming problem and opposition to steps to combat it.