This decision of whether to engage on climate should be a personal choice, not a mandate.
More evidence that CEOs are not engaged on climate change comes from the responses to a question about their top priorities for government.
Stott added that the new alliance, UK Health Professionals Alliance to Combat Climate Change, represented "the first time significant numbers of senior health professionals in colleges representing large numbers of their members have come together to engage on climate change".
The Danish ambassador to Bolivia, Morten Elkjaer, tells a US diplomat that, at the Copenhagen summit, "Danish prime minister Rasmussen spent an unpleasant 30 minutes with Morales, during which Morales thanked him for [$30m a year in] bilateral aid, but refused to engage on climate change issues".
The Danish ambassador to Bolivia, Morten Elkjaer, tells a US diplomat that, at the Copenhagen summit, "Danish prime minister Rasmussen spent an unpleasant 30 minutes with Morales, during which Morales thanked him for [$30m a year in] bilateral aid, but refused to engage on climate change issues". After the Copenhagen summit, further linking of finance and aid with political support appears.
One Earth Sangha is featuring Joanna Macy, Rev. angel Kyodo williams and a powerful collection of teachers, activists and experts in an online, interactive "EcoSattva Training". This course will develop the community's capacity to effectively engage on climate change and other ecological challenges with courage, compassion and wisdom.
Among the Republican presidential contenders, former New York Gov. George Pataki is the only other candidate who has been proactively engaged on climate.
These companies, with their corrosive influence on politics, funding of climate-deniers, and abhorrent human rights records, will "engage" on climate change, while continuing to extract fossil fuels that we cannot burn if we wish to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
To advance progress toward this goal, the GCCHE aims to create a virtual town square across all health professions by bringing together member institutions to engage on climate-health education, and develop global standards for knowledge and practice on the health impacts of climate change that all graduates of health professions schools should possess.
The challenge is not to find a non-political way of engaging people on climate change, but to embrace the fact that politics permeates the discourse on climate change, and face up to this by widening the group of people who are involved in the debate.
