Suburban single family homes need to be sacrificed in the name of climate change, but this will not threaten the large Park Avenue apartments and private retreats of media superstars, financial tycoons and the scions of former carbon-spewing fortunes.
Although massive forces are still arrayed against progress in the shift to a low-carbon economy — particularly by those whose fortunes are invested in fossil fuels — today the very terms of the debate are changing.
Sprint recently scored highest among U.S.-based wireless companies on the Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) S&P Fortune 500 Leadership Index for its carbon disclosure efforts.
Retrofitting carbon capture and storage, for example, costs a fortune.
www.enstorageinc.com Sector 1 - Energy efficiency Sector 2 - Other Employees: 75 From its Costa Mesa base, EPS Corp has developed a three-step approach for Fortune 500 companies wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.
The reason why Bloomberg is such a good example of this is that, while he talks publicly about the carbon bubble, and risky business, and climate change, his personal fortune of more than $30 billion is invested in oil and gas.
Skúli Mogensen, one of Iceland's most successful entrepreneurs, has made a fortune and a big reputation from mobile phone software, media technology, carbon recycling and the airline he owns, Wow Air.
These "ecosystem services"—the storage of carbon in trees, the pollination of crops by insects are often closely tied to the economic fortunes of the poorest in the developing world.The world cannot have an environment unaltered by humans.
No less chagrined must be Gordon Brown, who sees the carbon market as key to the global response to climate change, and to the economic fortunes of the City of London.
The petcoke was the property of Koch Carbon, a company controlled by the Koch brothers, who have made much of their $100 billion fortune from fossil fuels.
