By Mike De Souza for the National Observer.
Erik Solheim doesn’t mince his words when it comes to industry giants that fail to embrace change in the global economy.
Solheim, a former Norwegian cabinet minister, is the new top boss of the United Nations Environment Programme. Speaking at an early-morning breakfast with a mixed crowd of environmental stakeholders, policy experts and media in Ottawa, he said that Canada’s fossil fuel companies need to take stock of what’s happening before it’s too late for them.
“Many of you will remember Kodak,” Solheim said at the event hosted by the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development. “They didn’t believe in digital photography. Where is Kodak now? In industrial museums somewhere.”