The findings of an extensive survey conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) were published last month; they raise a very important question.
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Recent reports are highlighting the growing involvement of the trade union movement in driving a greener economy. In a reversal of traditional allegiances, the union movement is growing more vocal in holding the government to account for the promised delivery of green jobs in the economy.
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With the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference about to kick off in Copenhagen for the next two weeks (7-18 Dec), it was bound to happen wasn’t it? An allegedly underreported item by the BBC has become a little bigger after viewer complaints (a lá the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand ‘scandal’).
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A report, compiled and published by The Green Fiscal Commission, (read it here), proposes a radical rethink of our taxation system that has the potential to not only assist the UK in reaching its 2020 carbon reduction targets but also create a taxation model more relevant to the 21st century.
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Reform, a right-leaning think tank, has published a report arguing that the billions spent on subsidising the green agenda would be better spent on the UK’s basic infrastructure.
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In a week that marks the one year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ announcement of bankruptcy and the start of the collapse of the global financial house of cards, it is appropriate to reflect on the implications of this event and what the wider business community can, and should, learn from this.
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The green bandwagon continues to roll on, providing the ruthless and unethical with another opportunity to make money out of the growing environmental movement to create a more sustainable global economy.
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The report of a study conducted by BPM Forum and E2open earlier this year entitled “Acceleration of ECO-Operation: Achieving Success & Sustainability in the Supply Chain” (read it here: http://www.eco-opscenter.com/report.php ) makes for interesting reading and highlights the difference between the perception and reality of the actions of the great and the good.
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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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A conversation the other day with the head of a media agency raises a subject that was touched upon at the beginning of the year and is now becoming more of an issue with the incoming CSR clauses in the Companies Act 2006. This is namely the disjoin between doing the right thing(s) and publicising the fact that you are doing the right thing(s).

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