Sustainability - United Kingdom
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"In the frigid opening days of 2009, Britain’s electricity demand peaked at 59GW. Just over 45% of that came from power plants fuelled by gas from the North Sea. A further 35% or so came from coal, less than 15% from nuclear power and the rest from a hotch-potch of other sources. By 2015, assuming that modest economic growth resumes, a...
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EcoSecurities is working with Economist Conferences to ensure The Third Annual Summit, to be held at the Radisson BLU Portman Hotel, London on February 25th 2010, is carbon neutral. EcoSecurities will help Economist Conferences in assessing the carbon footprint for the emissions related to the Summit and sourcing Verified Emission Reductions (“...
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The Manufacturing's Operational Opportunities dinner forum will gather an audience of 30 senior executives to discuss the opportunities available to the manufacturing industry in the aftermath of the recession. The findings of a research report will be discussed at the dinner.
ThemeIn recent years, there has been increasing discussion about the...
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A live debate between The Economist, Scottish Government, industry and key opinion-leaders.
Scotland’s Parliament recently passed the most ambitious climate change legislation of any industrialised nation, targeting a 42% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. All very laudable, but missing the point completely.
Given the country’s...
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LEADING THINKERS AND IMPLEMENTERS DEBATE THE REAL IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR BUSINESS
Business is at a crucial turning point—the short pause between the Copenhagen meeting and enforcement of the Carbon Reduction Commitment in April 2010.
Sustainability leaders urgently need to build workable strategies for climate change while continuing...
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Since early 2008, business leaders around the world have been battling the worst economic and financial crisis for more than a generation. They have endured gut-wrenching asset prices falls (notwithstanding recent equity rallies), declining customer confidence and log-jammed credit markets, to name just a few. In recent months, we have seen...
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2009 has the potential to be a watershed year for climate change. The clock is counting down to the Copenhagen conference in December, where the world's governments will meet with the aim of thrashing out a workable successor to the Kyoto Protocol and bringing both developing and developed countries into the framework in some way. The outcome will...
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