A recent article in the Times makes for interesting reading and, in essence, concludes that womankind will be the planet’s saviour (if it isn’t already too late!). “Just as there is a wise woman behind every successful man, or so the saying goes, there is also one behind most ethical businesses”, the article begins, covering the WEBAs.
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Speaking recently at Sustainabilitylive!, Vanessa Harvard-Williams, global head of environment with legal firm Linklaters, discussed the 2020 and 2050 targets of reducing carbon emissions by (eventually) 80% and stated that she wants to see governments cascade their commitments down as hard regulations in order to help business.
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This is not a joke, folks – so stop treating it as one.
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An article in The Economist last week (“A stress test for good intentions”) provides a ray of hope that big business is finally ‘getting it’; CSR initiatives are worthy of consideration on cost grounds… and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Alistair Darling delivered an historic 2009 budget that leaves the high-bracket earners spitting blood, the country severely weighed down with the highest planned borrowing and debt since Bank of England records began and environmental issues clearly identified in this government’s list of priorities (low). Here’s what he ‘gave’ and what it means:
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“Earth Hour is shaping up to be an impressive symbolic response to our planet in peril”.
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At the beginning of this month the European Commission announced that it will invest €105 billion (£97 billion) in green projects in its latest budget, a massive increase (almost three times) on what was invested in the last round.
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“Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink” (with apologies to Coleridge)

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I’m not a great fan of most business books. It’s always struck me that if the ideas expounded therein are so blindingly brilliant, why is the authors writing about it instead of developing a great business, or ‘walking the talk’?
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There is an old truism about how the Americans always do things bigger, as if that means that they do things better; which is why, I suppose, that Mr. Brown has gone scurrying off to Washington this week to be the first ‘leader’ to meet the new US President.

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