Sustainability, but for managers

Former Vice President Al Gore spoke at the Wall Street Journal's recent ECO:nomics conference a confab of several hundred A-list corporate executives and several dozen green-strategy headliners. Equal parts zeal and data, Gore touted his plan to get utilities off carbon fuels within a decade. H...

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Published inMIT Sloan management review Vol. 50; no. 3; p. 11
Main Author Hopkins, Michael S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 01.03.2009
Subjects
Audiences
Carbon
Climate change
Conferences
Decision making
Economics
Emissions
Emissions control
Executives
Global warming
Gore, Albert Jr
Management
Policy making
Screenwriters
Sustainability
Sustainable development
United States > US
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Summary:Former Vice President Al Gore spoke at the Wall Street Journal's recent ECO:nomics conference a confab of several hundred A-list corporate executives and several dozen green-strategy headliners. Equal parts zeal and data, Gore touted his plan to get utilities off carbon fuels within a decade. He described the end of polar ice. Bjorn Lomborg, the self-styled skeptical environmentalist and head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank that analyzes how governments and philanthropists can get the most bang for their world betterment buck, questioned Gore's emphasis on cutting carbon emissions. It is interesting that while the audience seemed squarely behind Gore and his anti-carbon-emissions message during his appearance (and during most other sessions, too), only hours earlier it had voted squarely against him. And this was not the only time at the conference when all the ambiguous forecasts, authoritative but contradictory policy plans and certain predictions of uncertainty bred bewilderment.
ISSN:1532-9194