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Monday, 24 November 2008 13:56

Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and large investors managing $7 trillion in assets, says she expects to see legislation using BICEP proposals. Lubber, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, says lawmakers need to hear that green energy "can be good for the economy." According to the United Nations Environment Programme, the global industry for renewable energy will create millions of jobs as it grows from $148 billion today to $600 billion in 2020.

Global warming "is of critical importance" to Starbucks and other companies, said Ben Packard, Starbucks vice president of global sustainability. Even small temperature changes will hurt agricultural regions worldwide.

By 2010, Starbucks aims to cut energy use in its stores, to make sure 50 percent of all store energy is renewable and to adopt green building standards for new stores.

Sarah Severn, Nike's director of corporate social responsibility, said that Nike has cut carbon emissions by 18 percent from 1998 to 2005 and has phased out SF6 global-warming gas from all Nike shoes with air-cushioning units.

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