Group says climate resolutions increase

August 20, 2008 By TIM HUBER , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Support for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies. Shareholder resolutions related to climate change more than doubled over the past five years, according to statistics gathered by a coalition of public interest groups, environmental organizations and pension funds. Moreover, the coalition, Boston-based Ceres, says support for those measures averaged more than 23 percent in 2008, a new high.

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Activists are good at making noise. They aren't good at long term commitments or the complex issues that 'their' issue can cause.
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