"Ultimately, California is going to demand that an industry which represents most of the problem has an economic and moral duty to be part of the solution".
His remarks drew a separate warning from John Cridland, deputy director general of the Confederation of British Industry, which represents about 200,000 British businesses.
Opposition in Britain, Mr. Cave said, is being led by the main lawyer's group, the Law Society, and the Confederation of British Industry, which represents large businesses.
Traditional, old-line liberals in the shaggy, idealistic, antihunger, antipoverty sector are joining with the nation's food industry, which represents some of the most sophisticated, powerful corporate interests in the world, to fight the mayor's plan.
Fighting back In a statement on its website yesterday the Society of the Plastics Industry, which represents 2,000 plastic manufacturers in the US, said environmental activists and non-government organisations "have promoted a specific agenda and retailers have been too quick to give in to the outcries of alarmist special interest groups".
The Chilean economy is highly dependent on the mining industry, which represents 54.2% of its exports [58].
However, the biggest problem facing Houston today revolves around the energy industry, which represents to this region of well over 5 million what finance does to New York.
The Confederation of Indian Industry, which represents the country's largest businesses, said the plan was "very unfortunate" and risked further undermining Anglo-Indian relations already strained by changes to the UK visa regime for students.
China's long if exceedingly slow march to intellectual property rights protection has taken another small step forward with the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Peoples Court consideration of music copyright infringement suits brought by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the leading Western record labels.
