Larry Boggs, GE’s senior counsel in the environmental programs, said the U.S. Climate Action Partnership or CAP concluded that intensity-based emissions targets like those favoured by the Conservative government, would not achieve the kind of reductions that are necessary to combat climate change effectively.
“With emissions rising at the rate they are projected, we didn’t think we could get there from here through intensity-based targets; it had to be an absolute cap,” Mr. Boggs said in an interview.