Brazil's corporates lead on sustainability reporting

Source: Green Futures (March 15th)

Brazilian businesses are keen to leave their history of boom and bust behind, discover Andrew Downie and Martin Wright.

Read more...

 

Featured Events

Building for the future
  • 25th March 2010
  • Central London
April Green Monday - Sustainable Supply Chains
  • 12th April 2010
  • Cavendish Conference Centre, London
Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme 2010
  • 18th-19th May 2010
  • Barbican, London
May Green Monday - Green Innovation & Disruption
  • 20th May 2010
  • Cavendish Conference Centres, London
Science and Innovation 2010
  • 16th June 2010
  • QEII Conference Centre, London

Oil threat prompts call for green industrial revolution

David Mason, March 16th, Forum Blog.

files/Peak Oil 16 March alt.jpg Soaring oil prices may drive politicians to take tough action to create a low-carbon economy while sceptics are still arguing the toss over climate change. The era of cheap oil is ending and, unless we take urgent measures to reduce our dependence on it, Britain – and by extension other oil-importing countries – faces a crisis as early as 2015, according to the UK Industry Taskforce on ... Read more

 

Transforming our cities from grey to green

Martin Hunt, March 11th, Forum Blog.

It was great to see the launch of the Integrated Habitats Design Competition last week – a competition that seeks out inspiring and innovative designers who emphasise the value of biodiversity and nature in our built surroundings. A competition that places significant weight on nature contributing to healthy, low-energy, high-quality environments will hopefully help the spread and uptake of best practice in greening our cities. Integrated design ... Read more

 

M&S sets a sustainable benchmark for the retail world

Jonathon Porritt, March 11th, Forum Blog.

files/JP blog - Plan A - 11 March copy.jpg I spoke at the annual M&S Suppliers’ Conference on Tuesday, which took place in Kensington Town Hall. This venue has a particular resonance for me as it was where the votes for the 1979 and 1984 European elections were counted – and every time I’m back there, I can’t help but recall that sense of consternation that so few people seemed to be prepared, at that time, ... Read more

 

Are we failing to see the wood for the gadgets?

Martin Hunt, March 10th, Forum Blog.

files/Martin Hunt 10 March small.jpg I’ve recently found myself questioning whether we are becoming over-reliant on technological fixes to the sustainability challenges we face today. Are we in danger of falling for ‘techno-wash’ as a way of avoiding some more fundamental (and maybe more painful) decisions about the way we live our lives? Does technology sometimes obscure the bigger picture? Did you see the story about one of the government’s new flagship ... Read more

 

No more niches – we need sustainable innovation at scale

Jonathon Porritt, March 9th, Forum Blog.

It’s the scale of it all that is sometimes daunting. On energy, for instance, we have to transition from around 90% dependency on fossil fuels to around 90% on renewables – allowing a little bit of residual space for cleaner and super-efficient fossil fuels (aviation, amongst other things, where technological substitution is always going to be limited). If we had two hundred years to make all that ... Read more

 

The science of uncertainty

Sara Parkin, March 2nd, Forum Blog.

What are we to make of the furore around climate science? There are implications for environmental campaigners, government and businesses currently agonising over the implementation of low carbon strategies, as well as for scientists - climate scientists in particular - and the whole scientific community in general. To start with thee and me. Most of us won’t have a degree in science, and may not even have ... Read more

 
More blogs >