首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Coca-Cola has always been more focused on its economic bottom line than on global warming, but when the company lost a profitabl
Coca-Cola has always been more focused on its economic bottom line than on global warming, but when the company lost a profitabl
admin
2018-09-15
15
问题
Coca-Cola has always been more focused on its economic bottom line than on global warming, but when the company lost a profitable operating license in India because of a serious water shortage there in 2004, things began to change. Today, after a decade of increasing damage to Coke’s balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.
"Increased droughts, more unpredictable variability, 100-year floods every two years," said Jeffrey Seabright, Coke’s vice president for environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said were also disrupting the company’s supply of sugar cane and sugar beets (甜菜). "When we look at our most essential ingredients, we see those events as threats."
Coke reflects a growing view among American business leaders and mainstream economists who see global warming as a force that contributes to lower GDP’s, higher food and commodity costs, broken supply chains and increased financial risk. Their position is at striking odds with the longstanding argument, advanced by the coal industry and others, that policies to curb carbon emissions are more economically harmful than the impacts of climate change.
In Washington, the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, has put climate change at the center of the bank’s mission, citing global warming as chief contributor to rising global poverty rates and falling GDP’s in developing nations. In Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based club of 34 industrialized nations, has begun to warn of Ihe steep costs of increased carbon pollution.
Nike, which has more than 700 factories in 49 countries, many in Southeast Asia, is also speaking out because of extreme weather that is disrupting its supply chain. In 2008, floods temporarily shut down four Nike factories in Thailand, and the company remains concerned about rising droughts in regions that produce cotton, which the company uses in its athletic clothes.
Both Nike and Coke are responding internally: Coke uses water-conservation technologies and Nike is using more synthetic material that is less dependent on weather conditions. At Davos and in global capitals, the companies are also lobbying governments to enact environmentally friendly policies.
What can be regarded as a threat according to Jeffrey Seabright?
选项
A、The loss of profitable operating licenses.
B、Natural disaster harmful to supply of ingredients.
C、Mainstream view towards global warming.
D、Inadequate supply of sugar cane.
答案
B
解析
该段末提到Jeffrey Seabright将those events看作是threats,而根据上文内容可知,those events指代那些会影响可口可乐公司供应链的环境问题(problems that…were also disrupting the company’s supply of…),故B“危害原料供应的自然灾害”为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/D347777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Promotingbusinessstrategies.B、Commandingotherpeople.C、Greaterrespect.D、Highersalary.D
A、Businesspeople.B、Journalists.C、Sportfans.D、Celebrities.C短文提到,几年前Foster办了两份杂志,其中Action是为体育爱好者而办的,故选C。
A、Theymaybemisinterpretedoccasionally.B、Theirwordingmaybecomedifferent.C、Theiroriginscannolongerbetraced.D、The
A、Toknowtheirbusinesspartnerbetter.B、Toenjoythedishesonly.C、Tohavearelaxation.D、Toescapefromthecompany.A选项以T
Officialhealthadvicethatsaidhouseholdchoreshelpkeepyouactivehasbeenprovedwrongbytheresearch,whichshowsthatt
A、TheWashingtonFederationofTeachers.B、TheNationalLaborUnion.C、TheAmericanFederationofTeachers.D、TheWashingtonLab
A、Naturaldisasters.B、Largechemicalfactories.C、Exhaustfromvehicles.D、Largeamountsofhouseholdgarbage.B男士说汽车尾气给环境造成很大的
"Wehavebeenignoringthebiggestglobalhealththreatofthe21stcentury."Thiswasthemessagespelledoutinareportlaunc
A、Frenchwomenhavethelongestmaternityleave.B、Fewcountriesguaranteegenderequalityinconstitutions.C、Afghanistan’scon
随机试题
中性温度:
在非线性消除动力学中,与药物半寿期有关的是
被认为世界上最早、实施最成功的新中国成立初期的健康促进策略是
患者,女,73岁。半年前曾中风,现症见表情呆钝,智力衰退,喃喃自语,或终日无语,呆若木鸡,不思饮食.脘腹胀痛,痞满不适,口多涎沫,头重如裹,舌质淡,苔白腻,脉滑,治宜
患者,女性,59岁。农民,2年前无明显诱因出现双腕、双手关节和双膝、踝、足、跖趾关节肿痛,伴晨僵,时间约10分钟,疼痛以夜间明显,影响行动。实验室检查:血沉55mm/h,RF(+)。关节X线检查:双手骨质疏松,腕部关节间隙变窄。最可能的诊断是
关于团队精神的说法,错误的是()
根据《工程建设项目施工招标投标办法》(2013年修订)(七部委第30号令),工程施工评标活动应当遵循的原则是()。
下列说法正确的有()。此项租赁业务对2008年和2009年资产负债表中“长期应付款”项目的影响额为()。
课程计划的中心是()。
以下不属于学生主观能动性主要表现的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)