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Archive 2008

December 17, 2008

Why coming clean is good business

Public companies can’t allow preoccupation with the financial crisis to detract from the importance of focusing on climate-change disclosure, securities lawyers say. Statistics indicate that U.S. companies mentioned climate change 7,634 times in their securities filings in the first quarter of 2008 compared with 536 in the comparable period in 2006.
http://www.financialpost.com/reports/legal/story.html?id=1083985

National Post