As U.N. meets for climate summit, former ambassador Nikki Haley says government should give more incentives for businesses ‘to do the right things’

The former South Carolina governor spoke to a business-friendly crowd in Hershey.

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  Ed Mahon comes to Spotlight PA from PA Post, where he covered state politics and policy, produced radio stories that were broadcast on public media stations throughout the state and on NPR’s national newscasts, and co-wrote a weekday newsletter. Prior to joining PA Post, Ed worked for six years as an investigative and political reporter for the York Daily Record, part of the USA Today Network. His reporting on failures in Pennsylvania’s system for protecting domestic abuse victims was a finalist in the national 2018 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in the local reporting category. He was also part of a team whose coverage of the criminal justice system, including the aggressive use of civil asset forfeiture by York County prosecutors, received the 2018 G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Before joining the York Daily Record, Ed covered K-12 education at the Centre Daily Times in State College and worked as a stringer for suburban sections of The Philadelphia Inquirer. He grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry on Sept. 23, 2019.

Following the United Nations Climate Action Summit, 77 countries are committing to carbon neutrality by 2050. The United States isn’t one of them.

On the same day world leaders gathered to discuss cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Nikki Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a Pennsylvania crowd that businesses should be encouraged to innovate.

“Government needs to provide more positive incentives for businesses to do the right things,” Haley said at the annual dinner for the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry in Hershey. “And we need to applaud them when they do, not demonize them all as enemies of the Earth.”

Haley, a Republican and former South Carolina governor, called man-made climate change a serious issue. But she warned that some proposed solutions would cripple the economy.

While serving as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Haley supported President Trump’s decision to withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

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