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Businesses lead where US falters

Nature Climate Change volume 7, pages 543–546 (2017)Cite this article

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The Paris Agreement requires commitments from countries to take action and reduce emissions, but the corporate world is also looking at its contribution to mitigation.

Two days before President Donald Trump announced that the United States, the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, would pull out of the Paris Agreement, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to future business leaders at New York University's Stern School of Business1. “The message is simple,” he said. “The sustainability train has left the station. Get on board, or get left behind.”

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