The management systems community
7th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
LRQA’s Dr Anne Marie Warris was interviewed by the leading climate change website. She talks about some of the key issues facing the voluntary carbon market and how the VCS is uniquely positioned to offer the voluntary market credibility.
20th Dec 2007
In a long-awaited proposal, presented today, for curbing global warming pollution from new cars, the European Commission has relegated climate change to the back seat and granted major concessions to the car industry, said Greenpeace.
15th Dec 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
Delegates at the UN summit in Bali have agreed a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling, the BBC reports.
12th Dec 2007 by Alex Briggs
According to this Climatechangecorp.com article The US is looking into making CSR reporting on climate change a mandatory element of the information disclosed to investors.
11th Dec 2007 by Alex Briggs
The International Standards Organisation (ISO), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainabale Development (WBCSD) have joined forces to jointly promote the ISO 14064 standards and the WRI and WBCSD GHG Protocol standards.
5th Dec 2007
A recent Gaurdian article reports on the current United Nations Climate Change event being held in Bali this week.
30th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
Guardian article highlights the spending habits of ethical consumers, balanced against their lack of spending on renewable energy.
The potential ethical products market is valued at £32.3 billion!
26th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
According to a groundbreaking report out today, British businesses are committed to do what it takes to tackle climate change but the UK effort will only succeed if it becomes an urgent, shared national priority for companies, consumers and the government.
26th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
CBI Climate Change Report, including the news that 2020 goals likely to be missed, but 2050 goals still attainable
23rd Nov 2007
This episode is the second in a series of Voluntary Carbon Standard podcasts. The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) was launched on November 19th 2007 at the London Stock Exchange. We were on hand for the launch event and we also caught up with some of the key people in the development and implementation of the VCS.
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