World`s top businesses call for green G20 deal

clipped from www.environmental-expert.com Political leaders may have spent much of this week downplaying expectations of a meaningful climate change deal at today's G20 summit, but that did not stop over 50 of the world's largest businesses joining forces this week to call for a larger chunk of proposed global stimulus packages to be earmarked for low carbon initiatives. In an open letter to Gordon Brown and the G20 leaders gathered in London this week, the new World Economic Forum low carbon prosperity task force calls on the international community to seize the opportunity presented by plans for a co-ordinated global recovery package and 'begin to develop the necessary practical incentives that will stimulate private sector decision-making' towards a low carbon economy. The newly formed task force features 52 companies, including a raft of blue chip firms such as Barclays, BP, BT, Deutsche Bank, Intel, Google, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Shell and Unilever, as well as 32 non-governmental organisations