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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If I was asked what I did for a living five years ago, I probably would have said I work in CSR. These days I find myself stumbling around working in CR, responsible business practice, sustainability, environment…While the labels have changed, has the agenda really progressed or are these all still fig leaves to justify the actions of the world’s Bad Brands?
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Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
Today is the UN’s World Water Day. The focus this year for World Water Day is water for cities and rightly so, according to Waterwise, in the UK, the South-east of England already has less water available per person than Syria and Sudan. This is a very scary thought for both society and business.
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We were delighted to attend the 2011 Shell Springboard Awards this week. It was inspiring to meet and learn about some of the most innovative small businesses in the UK. Our friends at The Carbon Trust tell us that the global market for low carbon goods and services, which is already worth over £3 trillion, is expected to exceed £4.5 trillion by 2015, with the UK market the sixth largest in the world. It’s no surprise then that nearly 200 small businesses from across the UK entered the Shell Springboard awards this year.
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2011 is shaping up to be a huge year for low carbon business. 2010 finished on a high note with world leaders returning to the UNFCCC international treaty framework. This gives us all a strong indication that there will be a global treaty and so national legislation limiting carbon emissions is likely to follow. This is a strong incentive for companies not taking action to get cracking and will give a huge boost to the leading companies that have already begun cutting their emissions and changing their business models in preparation for the low carbon economy.
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Matt Mellen - Mayday Campaign Manager
Lloyds Commercial is running a series of events up and down the country to get small and medium size businesses (SMEs) thinking about the opportunities ahead. For companies near Olympic sites there are new business opportunities supplying and servicing the surge in activities around the events and using this as a spring board for further growth.
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The issue of whether the spending cuts announced by the coalition government are the right response to our current economic situation is likely to be hugely divisive. Whatever your position it is clear that the hundreds of thousands of job losses will cause much anguish up and down the country and clearly many services will be affected. From an environmental point of view cuts to DECC, DEFRA and to government funded entities like the Carbon Trust and WRAP will reduce the UK’s capacity, in the short term, to take action on environmental challenges.
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Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
Thursday 7th October 2010
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Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
The Princes Mayday Network has worked alongside The Department of Energy and Climate Change since its inception. Both organizations are united in the belief that business has a vital role to play in responding to climate change and moving to a sustainable future.
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Category: Mayday Team Thoughts
This week, the conclusions of investigations into the two ‘climategate’ stories from earlier this year have led to climate scientists at a top UK research unit emerging with their reputations intact.
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