Apple, Facebook, Google join hundreds of businesses in support for Paris agreement

[Right_in_Virginia]

Apple, Facebook, Google join hundreds of businesses in support for Paris agreement
CNN, Jun 5, 2017, Seth Fiegerman

Apple (AAPL, Tech30), Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Facebook (FB, Tech30), Google (GOOG), Gap (GPS), Adidas and many others signed on to an open letter Monday pledging to move forward with the United State's earlier commitment to reducing carbon emissions.

"In the U.S., it is local and state governments, along with businesses, that are primarily responsible for the dramatic decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in recent years," the coalition wrote on a dedicated website called We Are Still In.

"Actions by each group will multiply and accelerate in the years ahead, no matter what policies Washington may adopt."

The effort was organized by more than a dozen groups, including the Center for American Progress and Mike Bloomberg's Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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"We remain steadfastly committed to the sustainability, carbon and energy goals that we have set as a company and to the Paris Agreement's ultimate success," Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), said in a statement Monday. "Our experience shows us that these investments and innovations are good for our planet, our company, our customers and the economy."

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/05/technology/business/businesses-paris-climate-agreement/index.html?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Hmmm... no mention of money to the Green Climate Fund ...  Will they be paying the remaining $2 billion of Obama's "promise"?   

[Emjay]

Hmmm... no mention of money to the Green Climate Fund ...  Will they be paying the remaining $2 billion of Obama's "promise"?   

They left Yahoo off the list.  They print fake demeaning news every day.

What is in it for these people?

[Bigun]

What is in it for these people?

They all have conduits into the public treasury and want them to stay in place!  You asked I answered!

[Frank Cannon]

Hmmm... no mention of money to the Green Climate Fund ...  Will they be paying the remaining $2 billion of Obama's "promise"?   

Nope. They will just run around claiming they are doing things when the only thing that matters to the UN is getting their hands on that money.

[DiogenesLamp]

Apple, Facebook, Google join hundreds of businesses in support for Paris agreement
CNN, Jun 5, 2017, Seth Fiegerman

Well when all the techno fascists are all on the same side,  you know it's the right thing to be against. 

[ABX]

If they freely choose to move forward with whatever initiative to reduce their own greenhouse gasses in their own companies, didn't they just make the point the government treaty isn't necessary?

[Right_in_Virginia]

If they freely choose to move forward with whatever initiative to reduce their own greenhouse gasses in their own companies, didn't they just make the point the government treaty isn't necessary?

Yes!  (But let's not tell them @AbaraXas )   ^-^

[ABX]

Yes!  (But let's not tell them @AbaraXas )   ^-^

Kind of like the mayor of Nashville today said 'the Constitution doesn't matter, her city will continue with reducing emissions...' and I'm sitting here wondering if she heard of the 10th Amendment.

[skeeter]

How many divisions does Google have?

[Fishrrman]

Apple makes wonderful products, but their politics, they ain't so good...  :(

[Fishrrman]

skeeter wonders:
"How many divisions does Google have?"

They don't need "divisions".

They gotz the data.
On, you, too.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

They left Yahoo off the list.  They print fake demeaning news every day.

What is in it for these people?

A few ideas:

1) They're rich enough they can afford to spend (their stock holders') money on politics.

2) They may not actually DO anything about it, but they're in the news catering to their market.

3) Onerous regulations are a great way for large corporations to stifle their smaller competition.

[Hondo69]

The Paris Agreement has no teeth, it basically says "I'll try to be green" if you sign on.

A country like Nigeria, for example, has stated their good intentions by signing the agreement, but can continue right along exactly as they have in the past.  We know they're trying to do better because it says so right here in the agreement, so in that regard they get a free pass - they have good intentions you see.  One exception to business as normal is they may have access to funds not previously available, a pot of money funded largely by the U.S. 

Huge multinational corporations like Google and Apple are licking their lips when agreements like Paris come rolling along.  Although lacking any real teeth to do anything of substance today, it does provide the framework for the next Phase Of Implementation.  The camel's nose under the tent as it were.

Phase II would look something like this: Google approaches the globalists in charge of the Paris agreement and mentions good old Nigeria is getting a portion of the funds and wouldn't their lives be better if we piped Google right into their huts on the plains?  Yes, yes, that would be awesome would come the reply.  Then they perform the old carrot and stick routine to Nigeria, if you want to continue receiving funds then you must do X, Y, and Z with Google.

It's the same old song and dance we've seen with any organization seeking power and control.  Same song, different verse.

[DiogenesLamp]

How many divisions does Google have?

In the future,  they will have as many as they need. 

[dfwgator]

In the words of Matt Foley, "Well, Lah Dee Frickin' Dah!"

[dfwgator]

In the future,  they will have as many as they need. 

[mountaineer]

Why liberals care about climate change, but not abortion
Jonathon VanMaren
Full article at LifeSiteNews

...  And the answer many conservatives stumble on is a simple one: Climate change is a very convenient problem for progressives. The solutions they are advocating are solutions they have been advocating to every problem and at every opportunity for decades.

 As Addison Del Mastro put it over at The American Conservative: “From a conservative point of view, climate change looks like too good a problem for liberals. Everything liberals want, or that conservatives think liberals want — more regulation, more control of the economy, more redistribution of wealth, skepticism or hostility towards capitalism and of America’s status as an affluent superpower — are suggested or required by the reality of climate change. The conservative sees liberals rubbing their hands together at the prospect of a problem that needs such solutions, and he thinks, ‘No, such a perfect problem couldn’t ‘just happen’ to arise — it must be invented or massively overstated.’”

Does anyone think that if a new ice age was being predicted, progressives wouldn’t come up with some way to tax us for that, too?

Progressives don’t just want more rules and regulations. They want to restructure the global economy based on a scientific track record of perpetually predicted apocalypses that persistently fail to come to pass.   ...

[Bigun]

Why liberals care about climate change, but not abortion
Jonathon VanMaren
Full article at LifeSiteNews

Yep! Fits their template perfectly!  We gotta spend and spend or the world will end!

[jmyrlefuller]

Oh, those right-wing, big-polluting corporations.