Climate Action - Assisting business towards carbon neutrality

There has been a great deal of talk about “green ICT” over the past few years. But developing consistent momentum for environmental improvement in this or any area is difficult in the absence of some agreed-upon guiding principles. EPEATTM (the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) helps rermedy this situation by offering an easy-to-use, forward-looking screen for product purchasing and a design checklist for green electronics development .

It was going to be a long day – this afternoon’s meeting with the analysts would finally give the market’s verdict on the policy he had been pushing ever since he became Chief Executive Officer in the summer of 2007, just over five years before. Carbon Challenge was a five-year strategy for cutting carbon emissions throughout the organisation, and it was still central to Tom’s vision for the company.

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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.

David Dickson, Director of SciDev.Net, says a commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs.

Achim Steiner
UN Under-Secretary General and
Executive Director
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

MAYER HILLMAN
SENIOR FELLOW EMERITUS,
POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE

AUBREY MEYER
DIRECTOR,
GLOBAL COMMONS INSTITUTE

Hans Jürgen Stehr, Chair of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism, says the challenge now is to scale up so that CDM can fulfil its potential.