Category: Vision for a sustainable future
Laura Spiers from the Sustainability and Climate Change group at PWC has provided us with an insider perspective from the recent UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (Rio+20) in the below blog:
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Category: Vision for a sustainable future
Sustainability is a big idea. At its most basic it is about people and communities, and about giving them a great life. Whilst community projects, wellbeing and strong economies are the real delivery of modern and satisfying lives - a strong, healthy, natural environment is key. This is at many levels: from provision of food, water and clean air; to the more subtle but essential pleasant environment to relax in and enjoy. A poor environment means a poor economy, and it is logical to assume the opposite is true.
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Category: Vision for a sustainable future
Britain has significant entrepreneurial potential, especially in the low carbon sector. Yet a number of barriers impede rapid business growth. Government support for green initiatives has proved inconsistent demonstrated most recently through the FiT fiasco and the questionably ‘green’ budget. Conditions now appear increasingly unfavourable for SMEs who face a funding deficit of up to £190m over the next 5 years. What options for growth are there available for deserving, innovative UK SMEs operating in the green space?
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Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
Businesses must stop looking to save the world and do what they do best: create, innovate and market. Surely this should be the message into COP 17 at Durban. The Prince’s Mayday Network is a community of businesses working to combat climate change through transforming the way they manage their resources, market their products and engage their stakeholders.
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Category: Mayday Journey
24/7 Uptime have been involved with The Prince’s Mayday Network since 2009, thanks to an initial introduction made by Michael Dinsdale at Brother UK.
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Category: Mayday events
The UK film industry contributes £4.5 billion to the Economy. It’s also responsible for an estimated 500,000 tonnes of carbon a year. Producers, cameramen and gaffers (film electricians) would like to be green, but a lack of affordable alternatives to power-hungry incandescent film lights make this difficult.
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Category: Climate change policies
In the past few years, through my work with the Commonwealth Orchard, I’ve has been encouraging planting of trees and orchards across Scotland, and I’m delighted to be able to say that it’s an idea that is literally now, bearing fruit. Over the past days I’ve picked my first plum of the season, (an Early Rivers, and the apples and other fruit seem to be coming on well.
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Category: Climate change policies
Alongside the need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, there is an urgent and growing need to support communities to adapt to the changes already happening. UNICEF’s Climate Positive initiative provides children who are least responsible, but most affected by climate change, with the tools to cope with their changing environment.
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Category: Vision for a sustainable future
As the environmental consequences of our business actions have become harder to ignore, so has the increase in the number of start-ups that place environmental values at their core. Having been mobilising UK businesses on climate change and resource depletion since 2007, The Mayday Network also provides invaluable support to emerging businesses keen to harness the economic advantages of starting green.
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Category: Climate change policies
According to the Green New Deal Group, the global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’ - a combined result of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change, and soaring energy prices. To help prevent this crunch the group are proposing a Green New Deal.
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