Alstom joins climate lobbying group USCAP

10 July 2009


European engineering firm Alstom has announced that it is joining the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) to support the group’s commitment to implementing policies that address the climate change challenge.

USCAP is a coalition of major corporations and environmental organisations that have come together urge the US federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Its members include BP, Duke Energy, GE, Rio Tinto, Shell, Siemens and the World Resources Institute. Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) have publicly stated that they used the USCAP “Blueprint for Legislative Action” as a basis for the climate change legislation that recently passed the US House of Representatives.

Alstom is currently developing technologies to capture carbon from fossil fuel-fired power generation and has ten demonstration projects for three different technologies underway or planned in seven countries.

“Wherever Alstom does business we advocate for policies to promote the technical investment that has to be at the heart of actions to tackle climate change,” said Philippe Joubert, Executive vice president of Alstom. “Joining USCAP is a logical extension of our commitment to bring innovative technical solutions to bear on perhaps the most significant challenge facing all of us today.

“Above all, it is vital that policy be properly informed by the expertise of business. USCAP provides a way for businesses to contribute, as they can and must, to making policy as effective as possible.”
M. Joubert recently joined other world business and policy leaders at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen in calling for governments around the world to develop a market and regulatory framework that facilitates timely action on climate change.




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