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: 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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Category: Climate change policies
Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), talks about why moving the clocks forward will be good for the environment but also good for business.
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Category: Climate change policies
For the past 18 months, BITC has hosted the National Business Travel Network (NBTN) Programme on behalf of the Department for Transport (DfT). DfT created NBTN in late 2007 as it saw a real need to involve businesses in reducing the impacts of work-related travel. Why?
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Category: Climate change policies
I am delighted to be working in partnership with the Mayday Network. Why? Because I believe that the Network is at the forefront of a critical movement to transform the way that companies do business. As stated by Chris Matthews, Head of Sustainability at United Utilities in this space, transformation hinges on two key concepts, change and trust. Can I continue with these themes from a different perspective.
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Category: Climate change policies
The Cancun talks have reached a conclusion, and have received a mixed but largely positive response. Channel 4 News reported that ‘the climate change deadlock between rich and poor nations of the world appears to have been broken. Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa signed off a deal that includes plans to design a Green Climate Fund, steps to protect the tropical forests and ways to help poorer developing nations adapt to climate change.
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Category: Climate change policies
Last night we supported an event held by Mayday partner The Aldersgate Group to debate the long awaited announcement of the Green Investment Bank. DBIS Permanent Secretary Martin Donnelly stood in for Vince Cable and gave an overview of the current thinking; confirming that this was a ‘cross government priority’. Speakers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, British Gas New Energy, HSBC and The Aldersgate Group followed.
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Category: Climate change policies
Matt Mellen - Mayday Campaign Manager
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Category: Climate change policies
As I reflect on the recent general election campaign, two words, amongst many, were frequently mentioned – not Brown and Cameron but change and trust. In working to embed sustainable and responsible business practices across United Utilities, these two words resonate because they are both critically important if efforts to become a more sustainable business that delivers bottom line benefits are to succeed. Why change and why trust?
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