Climate Action - Assisting business towards carbon neutrality

Cost or Opportunity?
In a recent Parliamentary debate on the Climate Change Bill Lord Puttnam compared “the dominant energy interests” who argue that hasty commitments to tackle climate change will be economically catastrophic to those who 200 years ago opposed the abolition of slavery. As he pointed out the abolition of the slave trade, in fact, was not only morally right but allowed Britain to leap forward economically.

Black carbon, a key component of soot, plays a much larger role in global warming than previously estimated, scientists have found. They cite black carbon as the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide.

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices - partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation - threatens to trigger global instability.