Ford has become the latest multinational to withdraw from the
Global Climate Coalition, a lobby group campaigning against worldwide
measures to reduce global warming.
A Ford spokesman told EP:
‘We haven’t renewed our membership and although it’s not something we
have announced publicly, we have informed interested parties.’
He added: ‘The coalition was a useful way for companies to talk to
governments about global warming issues, but it inhibited our ability
to move forward on environmental policies.
‘We feel it is
up to governments and companies to get to grips with this issue and the
coalition is not necessarily the best route to do that’.
A
number of very large companies, including Shell and BP Amoco, have
recently severed their links with the US-based coalition, which opposes
the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
The Global Climate
Coalition said that it was disappointed by Ford’s decision, which it
claimed had been ‘driven by a campaign of misinformation by fringe
environmental groups’. The coalition was set up in 1989.
