Last week New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, launched the “One Year, One Thousand Supers” programme, intended to provide up to 40 hours training to 1,000 building superintendents as part of a campaign to reduce the carbon footprint for the city.
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A couple of recent news items highlight how common sense and quality leadership can help build sustainable practices and how the lack of it is still hindering it.
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A recent article caught my eye which highlights just how badly the business community (in this case in the USA) wants to deny reality in a last ditch effort to obviate the need to be come responsible in its actions and become more focused on the energy issue.
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A recent report, published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (The Carbon Chasm Report), contains some good and bad news.
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London Mayor, Boris Johnson has been busy launching and promoting green initiatives all over London, some of which are his ‘baby’ and some of which are just good to be associated with. For a change, however, maybe it’s time to support him.
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It seems appropriate, in a week that petrol and diesel prices have been hiked up, once again (this time by 2 pence per litre), and amid comment from industry analysts that they cannot rule out the Government raising fuel prices to £1.20 per litre in the current lifetime of the administration, to reference an article recently written by Nick Reeves, Executive Director of The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
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With the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) looming just around the corner, the online news has been full for the last week or so with stories of those that are doing good and those that will have to buy carbon credits to meet requirements.
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Last week, UN representatives (not leaders, though) met in Bonn to progress the on-going climate change talks that will culminate in the Copenhagen conference at the end of this year. If members of the business community were hoping to derive guidance from the political arena, they got it, but not in the way that they might have thought and certainly not the guidance that the educated majority were hopeful would emerge.
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Whether you are in manufacturing, banking, investment or just a corporate spread-better, electric automotive technology continues to raise its profile in the news. In the USA, President Obama has just announced a $2.4 billion stimulus plan into electric vehicle technology and even the UK’s own modest £230 million of subsidies for electric car use, to come into effect in 2011, has been extended to the fleet market in recognition of wider implications of this technology.
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) have had to pull the recently launched GreenHouse Gas (GHG) conversion rates to be used by businesses to calculate their footprint in advance of reduction measures, after it was discovered that their figures were flawed and that there were ‘other data and methodology’ concerns and ‘inconsistencies between the way in which overseas and domestic electricity is accounted’, according to sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward (BFF).
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