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Why we can’t rely on corporations to save us from climate change

  • Written by Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
imageManagers' short term incentives mean they can't follow through on grand climate change programs.Shutterstock

While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seenbymany as crucial to tackling climate change.

However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are...

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