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| World Environment Day |
| Climate Leader Videos launched |
| A day in a low carbon life: What might it be like to lead a business in 2012? |
| Sustainable United Nations (SUN) |
| Special Features |
| News Roundup |
| About Climate Action |
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| June the 5th is World Environment Day 2008: Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy |
 Recognising that climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era, UNEP is asking countries, companies and communities to focus on greenhouse gas emissions and how to reduce them. The World Environment Day will highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and life-styles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption.
Read 2008 World Environment Day messages here:
The main international celebrations of World Environment Day 2008 will be held in New Zealand.
The day's agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership, which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
Resources for World Environment Day and beyond:
Twelve Steps to Help You Kick the CO2 Habit
The World Environment Day Alphabet, 80 Ways to Celebrate
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| Climate Leader Videos launched |
To commemorate and celebrate World Environment Day Climate Action has been filming videos with Climate Leaders from the public, private and intergovernmental sectors. Click here for more interviews
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Stephen Barnett, President, The Nickel Institute |
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Rokus L Van Iperen, Chief Executive Officer, Océ N.V. |
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Georg Kell, Executive Head of the United Nations Global Compact |
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Lynette Thorstensen, Communications Director, WBCSD |
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Ernst Ligteringen, CEO of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) |
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Mindy S. Lubber, President of Ceres |
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Yvo de Boer, Executive secretary, UNFCCC |
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| A day in a low carbon life: What might it be like to lead a business in 2012? |
This article from IBM describes a day in the life of a fictional Chief Executive Officer, preparing to face market analysts in 2012. The intention is to explore the challenges business leaders might face doing business in a low carbon economy.
A valuable reference and an interesting read.
Click here to read IBM’s Paper ‘A day in a low carbon life’ |
| Sustainable United Nations (SUN) |
The World Environment Day on 5 June 2008 has adopted the slogan “Kick the CO2 habit”. This is a slogan that very much reflects the ambition of UN Climate Neutral Strategy, which commits all UN agencies, funds and programs to move towards climate neutrality. UNEP’s Sustainable United Nations (SUN) programme has its own ambition to help UN and other organisations to become climate neutral. But the question is how to move from commitment to action. From intent to realisation?
Read the full story >> |
| Special Features |
| Determine the financial implications of a Green initiative before you invest |
 Enterprise planning can help a company project the financial implications of green initiatives to optimise business return. Performance Management can be used to model environmental factors to create and compare multiple "what-if" scenarios, test assumptions, assess the impact of events and adapt the business to meet specific corporate responsibility objectives. Leveraging planning capabilities can help a company balance its financial obligations to key stakeholders with its moral obligation to be a good environmental steward.
Take the Infor Green Assessment survey for a subjective analysis and benchmarking of your company's sustainability efforts and to access tools and information to improve your Green capabilities.
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| Leading telecom company discus key environmental issues |
 Energy use and climate change, materials and waste are the key environmental issues for Ericsson. Ericsson uses four central principles to understand those impacts and address them with a consistent and methodical approach: Environmental Management Systems, Life-Cycle Assessment, and Design for Environment and Ecology Management.
The company is focusing on sustainable innovations and techniques to optimise energy efficiency at every step of product and solution development. For example, Ericsson is helping mobile operators improve the energy-efficiency of their radio networks through delivering energy-efficient products, providing optimal network design and introducing the innovative use of alternative energy sources to run these networks. It is also examining how telecommunications can have broader benefits to society by helping to create a more carbon lean economy, by offering solutions which replace physical travel and products.
For further information visit:
http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corporate_responsibility
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| News roundup |
| Kick the habit - World Environment Day 2008 |
| Britain launches new drive for offshore wind power |
| Desert is claiming southeast Spain |
| End to ethanol could stave off grain crisis |
| Ministers commit to zero net deforestation by 2020 |
| Eco-friendly claims for ‘hybrid’ cars dismissed as gimmickry |
| Océ shines light on benefits of world-first carbon positive offset scheme |
| Oil-price supernova spurs search for alternatives |
| About Climate Action |
 Climate Action is an international communications platform, produced by Sustainable Development International in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) it is specifically designed to assist the private and public sectors towards carbon neutrality, as well as providing practical actions to reduce our global carbon footprint. Climate Action was launched in December 2007 at the UN climate change conference in Bali and the next publication will be published for the Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. |
UNEP are launching 'Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality' globally.
