GreenHeart Global

Nike has recently left ts position on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors

The reason is because they disagree with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the issue of climate change and their recent action challenging the Environmental Protection Agency. They have gone on record to say:

“It is important that US companies be represented by a strong and effective Chamber that reflects the interests of all its members on multiple issues. We believe that on the issue of climate change the Chamber has not represented the diversity of perspective held by the board of directors.

Therefore, we have decided to resign our board of directors position. We will continue our membership to advocate for climate change legislation inside the committee structure and believe that we can better influence policy by being part of the conversation. Moving forward we will continue to evaluate our membership.”

The main incentive for this move was that Nike shareholders have been applying pressure for the company to leave the chamber. The Chamber recently made an incomprehensible challenge against new initiative by the Environmental Protection Agency to track emissions of heat-trapping gasses like carbon dioxide. They have since apologized for their appeal, but the damage has been done, as NIKE is the 4th company to drop from the board in the past few weeks.

NIKE’s new tag line: Just Do It…Sometimes.