
Marc Gunther is a senior writer at Fortune, a columnist for CNNMoney and blogs at MarcGunther.com.
Although you didn't hear much about Africa during the global debate over climate change policy, Africans may already have begun to suffer the impacts of climate change: Some are saying that the war in Darfur is the world's first climate-related conflict.
As the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart has long been a powerful force in the global economy -- a bully, its critics would say. These days, though, the company is winning praise for using its leverage -- that's a polite term for bullying -- to protect the environment and help the poor.
While there's little to like right now about what's happening to the global economy, or about the government's never-ending rescue efforts -- did you really want to become an owner of Citigroup? -- there is this: The possibility that Americans will at long last rethink our habitual consumption.
CEO Neville Isdell is an environmentalist, but making The Coca-Cola Co. sustainable is harder than it looks.
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