Time to pull the plug on corporate virtue-signaling

Over the past decade, the leaders of corporate and international organizations became used to being lauded for making grand but ultimately empty, green promises on stages in Davos and climate summits. How quickly things have changed. 

Fear of being called out by the Trump administration is forcing many leaders into changing course – at least in their rhetoric.

World Bank president Ajay Banga’s first move when he took over the institution in 2023 was to extend its mission from ending...