Businesses, Governments Clash Over How To Tackle Climate Change

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Companies are making investment decisions based on environmental, social and corporate governance factors, also known as ESG. Those financial choices can include backing greener technologies, which rankles leaders in some Republican-led municipalities and states, who are skeptical of climate change.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, climate and corporations correspondent Michael Copley, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Tabitha.
0:01.2	And TK.
0:02.0	Two weeks ago, we were visiting the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
0:05.3	Today, we're standing on top of Parliament House in Canterbury, Australia.
0:08.8	This podcast was recorded at 106 PM on Monday, July 10th.
0:14.2	Things may have changed by the time you hear it.
0:16.3	Okay, here's the show.
0:21.1	Wow, so were they on vacation here and then they went on vacation there or were they
0:25.1	working here and then they went on anyway.
0:26.8	I don't know, but they didn't tell you is that the time that it took them to get from
0:30.4	the capital to Australia is the amount of time it took between those takes.
0:37.3	Which is to say it's a long history.
0:39.3	It takes a long time.
0:41.2	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:43.2	I'm Tamra Keith.
0:44.0	I cover the White House.
0:45.0	And I'm Dominica Munson, our Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:48.1	And NPR's Michael Copley is with us.
0:50.3	He covers the intersection of climate change and corporations.
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0:55.3	Thanks, Dan.
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