Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest smartphone maker, joined on Thursday a growing list of companies that are promising to increase their use of solar and other renewable energy to help curb global warming. Other companies that have joined the renewable energy pledge, dubbed RE 100, include automakers General Motors Co. and BMW AG and a handful of other manufacturers. Activists began pressing Samsung a year ago to set a renewable energy target. Samsung gave no renewable energy target for facilities in its home country of South Korea, where about three quarters of the energy comes from coal and nuclear power. The effect of that would be largely symbolic because the portion of renewable energy in Samsung's South Korean business still would be minimal.

Source: ABC News June 14, 2018 06:45 UTC