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Clark urges businesses to go low carbon

29 Apr 2011

Helen Clark ... great challenge.
Helen Clark ... great challenge.
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has made an international appeal for businesses to transform their enterprises into low-carbon operations that are environmentally sound and benefit communities.


“Business as usual, which leads to broken ecosystems and a warming climate, contributes to increasing economic volatility, and to higher costs and lower profitability of doing business,” said Clark, who heads the United Nations Development Programme.



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