What Can You Do to Help the Industry Meet Its New Environmental Goals? A Q&A With Book Industry Environmental Council Members Pete Datos and Todd Pollak
Todd Pollak: The committee that worked on developing those goals based the targets both on existing precedent … and then we also looked at regional and state government goals, as well as some targets that had been set by key politicians and lawmakers. ... We also looked at some corporate goals that were made through programs like the EPA Climate Leaders Program. ... The commitments that many of the companies that were participating in that program made would put those companies on track to 20-percent reduction by 2020 if they were to continue to reduce emissions at a similar pace. ... We also looked at data from the scientific community and it seemed that there was a good deal of support for the idea that, at a global, societal level, the goals of 20-percent reduction by 2020 and 80-percent reduction by 2050 were what were needed to avoid some of the worst consequences of global climate change.