When talking about the Climate Crisis, in general, we talk about the countries that generate the pollution that produces it, but little is said about the companies that generate that pollution and the global Supply Chain that relates companies to each other and to users or final consumers.

When the UN organizes meetings to try to combat this problem, the leaders of the countries speak, but I have never heard about the speech of the highest representatives of the companies that generate pollution.

For those who don't know, there are around 90 companies in the world that generate two thirds of the CO2 emissions caused by industrial activity, and one third of them are state-owned companies. In this ranking are Exxon, Chevron, BP, Amazon, Walmart, IKEA, etc...

And industrial and trading companies include all the companies that make up the Supply Chain that feeds them product.

Although it is true that China is today the most polluting country, it is no less true that approximately 40% of these emissions are due to the products they manufacture to be sold in Western countries. And I have serious doubts that this issue will be discussed at UN meetings, because Western leaders want their voters to continue to have cheap products available to them.

The truth is that the problem of the Climate Crisis is tremendously complex, with multiple derivatives and many conflicting interests. The idea would be to approach it with a global mentality, and since I don't know what they negotiate in those UN meetings, I don't feel capable of making a value judgment.

What is clear to me is that time does not stop and the Climate Crisis continues to worsen, and the worse the situation becomes, the more expensive the solution will be, and it will also be much more difficult to reverse it.

Anyway, we'll see what time brings us.

Amador Palacios

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