If we are to make a difference that makes THE difference in how our organisation operates in a more sustainable way, it will be necessary to engage everyone in the process and the effort.
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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).
A recent article about the ‘corporate activist’, Adam Werbach, highlights one of the issues that appear to be holding back the progress that could be being made by the corporate sector in lessening the threat of carbon resource reduction to its ability to conduct sustainable business.
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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It looks as if some of the predictions and comments that were highlighted in this column earlier in the year are coming home to roost, as evidenced by a couple of recent stories from the global press.
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Tough new emission rules, which will bring together seven existing (and frankly, leaky) bits of disparate EU legislation, were agreed last week in Luxembourg. The agreement brings the EU a little closer to having some real laws, with bite, on curbing the effects of industrial pollution.
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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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It was interesting to read recently about what the big (who, it appears, would very much like to be referred to as the ‘the great’… and later, ‘the good’) players have to say about their conversion to environmental consciousness and (claimed) action.
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The news this week has been full of official report publications that confirm what has long been shouted about by the environmental lobby; whether you want to admit that we have hastened it along or not, climate change is happening.
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Treasury Matters by Joergen Jensen
Insider by Michael Pawley
The Edge by Richard Northedge
