Climate change is forcing companies of all sizes to rethink the way they do business.. to find ways to sustain growth in a low, rather than high, carbon economy.
RICHARD SHARMAN, KPMG Carbon Advisory Group
CN Net
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Spotlight - ICT
ITU Symposium on ICTs and climate change
The ITU Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change, held in London from June 17-18, focused on ICTs and their contribution to emission reduction and environment sustainability. Read More >>ICT’s smart answer to climate change
The ‘enabling effects’ of ICTs could contribute to emission reductions of 7.8 billion tonnes by 2020 Read More >>
EU to promote use of ICT in energy conservation
The European Commission announced May 13th that it would promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy. Read More >>
Telecom solutions to energy and climate change
As diesel prices soar, energy efficiency has come increasingly under focus in the telecom sector, but so has the focus on telecom as a viable solution to helping to combat climate change.Ericsson is focusing substantial efforts on delivering energy-lean solutions to mobile operators, understanding our carbon footprint, and promoting the smart use of telecommunications in order to support the transition to a low-carbon economy. Read More >>
CN NET: the Climate Neutral Network: an online platform to promote climate neutrality.
The CN Net is a tool for outreach, communication, networking, and awareness-raising on climate change around the globe. The network was launched at UNEP’s Governing Council on 21 February 2008. This initiative, delivered online, encourages widespread and national, regional and global ‘buy in’ to climate neutrality at various levels of society.Read More >>
An organisation is just like a second hand car.
UNEP’s Sustainable United Nations (SUN) initiative aims at providing practical support to organisations to reduce GHG emissions. We are now starting to gain some practical experience from working with various organisations inside and outside UN, and today I wanted to share some recent practical experiences:
Bioenergy World Americas 2008
16 Sep 2008, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Communicate Convincing Environmental Messages
25 Sep 2008, The Hilton Paddington, London
Offsetting Democracy
Kevin Smith from Carbon Trade Watch looks at how carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes that need to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Read More >>A sustainable vision for the aviation industry
Philippe Rochat of the International Air Transport Association puts forward a sustainable vision for the aviation industry. Read More >>Company climate change risk strategies and investor expectations
Ian Woods from AMP Capital Investors takes a look at investor expectations of a company's climate change risk approach. Read More >>View interview - Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union (ITU
"ITU wants to ensure that climate change is addressed in a standardised manner, that it is measured with agreed standards... Even though information and communication technology is not really part of the problem, it is part of the solution and we intend to play that vital role that ICT can play in combatting climate change". Read More >>View interview - Nathalie Kosciusko Morizet, Secretary of State to the Environment, France
"Last autumn France launched a new environmental campaign which imposed many inventive, if not radical, ideas on combating climate change. It envelops a change on several aspects of everyday life from public transportation, personal automobiles and housing." Read More >>View interview - Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of Environment, Finland
“Emissions from private transportation are high and we need to reduce a lot of them so we encourage people through taxation to buy cars with lower emissions” Read More >>Climate Action Media and Distribution partners
