Google have shown their green views by cutting ties with American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential rightwing lobbying network, after they discovered them as climate change deniers.
This comes as a driving force on an initiative from the United Nations to recoil from climate-change denying businesses. This move is well timed before the UN summit on climate change in New York.
Google€™s chairman, Eric Schmidt, confirmed that American Legislative Exchange Council€™s opinions on climate change were not in line with Google€™s.
He stated: "The facts of climate change are not in question anymore. Everyone understands climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people, they€™re just, they€™re just literally lying."
Initially, Google had joined with American Legislative Exchange Council for a campaign on an unconnected subject.
A UN document due to be released at the climate summit in New York is entitled "Are you engaging responsibly in climate policy?". It encourages leaders in businesses to quit any groups which may be seen to oppose climate policies and more closely inspect the climate policies of those they work with.
The document asks businesses to consider the following when assessing the people they work with, are:
Google have admitted their relationship with American Legislative Exchange Council was a mistake and admitted: "I think the consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake, and so we€™re trying to not do that in the future."
American Legislative Exchange Council have been a part of a campaign to ban planning for sea level rise in North Carolina and also a campaigns to roll back regulations encouraging green power such as wind and solar.
Google are not the first to have shunned American Legislative Exchange Council, with Microsoft quitting them last July.
