January 19, 2007

We need a carbon-solutions-neutral agency.

Sir, there seems to be a much growing divergence between the realization of how serious our environmental problems are and the effectiveness of the measures, or at least that is the impression one gets when reading “Business must bend with the winds of climate change” by Philip Stephens, January 19. The fact that a reputable company such as Marks and Spencer and that is surely run by capable and creative professionals will now, to help do their part, recycle unsold food into energy, seems more to evidence how much the world really needs a carbon-solutions-neutral agency to tell business and the rest of us about how to best bend. When told that temperatures are rising, fast, can we really afford for our lead corporate citizens to be wasting resources playing for the galleries or investing in magic-green-potions peddled by some eloquent salesmen?