Last week saw the great and the good (well, their lower level ‘mini-me’s’, anyway) gathering in Barcelona in a pre-Copenhagen summit.
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The camel’s back has finally broken; nine years after being appointed by Tony Blair to the post of chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), Sir Jonathon Porritt has finally had to accept that Gordon Brown has as little understanding of the importance of sustainability and its key role in the future viability of business in the UK (and globally) now, as he had when he was chancellor.
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Well, the G8 summit meeting, taking place this week in Italy, has moved on to L’Aguila, spawning fears that, being so close to the epicentre of the recent earthquake site, there might be a risk from tremors.
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This is not a joke, folks – so stop treating it as one.
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I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry… Tim Nicholson was hired by Grainger plc (see LON:GRI), Britain’s biggest residential property investment company, as environmental policy officer.
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Here in the UK, any impact Earth Day (22.04.09) might have had was overshadowed by the multimedia circus that was Budget 2009.
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The relaxation of focus away from the politicians will only increase the intensity of focus on the business community
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Sunday, 15th March 2009, marked the world premiere of a hard-hitting docu-film called “the Age of Stupid”.
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It is difficult not be ambivalent about the Government’s reactive (at this late stage, it can hardly be called pro-active) stance on the very real threat posed to our national and global economies by the reduction in available carbon resource.
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I’m not known for my love of government agencies but there is a web site that actually does what it says on the tin and gives good advice we can all follow now.
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