TOBACCO COMPANIES BID TO REDUCE THEIR CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
June 1st, 2019
EVERY manufacturing and agricultural industry has an impact on climate change - and the tobacco sector is no different. Faced with long-standing criticism of the health impact of its products, the tobacco industry is now facing attacks that its work generates carbon emissions and hence climate change. But the sector is not being idle on this file, with companies developing initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint.
It is no big surprise that a tobacco industry that produces six trillion cigarettes a year, with 5.8 trillion consumed by one billion smokers ...
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