Bali Climate Change Conference

LRQA Business Assurance The Guardian Climate Change Summit Podcast

8th Aug 2009 by Alex Briggs

This podcast is a result of www.businessassurance.com being a media supporter at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London in June 2009.
Some of the global climate change experts you will hear from in this podcast include Gavin Neath, VP Unilever, Donna Young, Head of Climate Change at BT, Zac Goldsmith, former editor of the Ecologist and one of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists and Andy Atkins, CEO of Friends of the Earth.

China Proposes Importing Nations Should Be Responsible for CO2 Emissions

18th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs

In this BBC online article, China’s top climate change negotiator, Li Gao, said his country should not pay for cutting emissions caused by the high demands of other countries.

CropLife Interview

19th Jan 2009 by Alex Briggs

Following on from the Climate deliberations at Poznan, Keith Jones of CropLife International talks about the contribution of agriculture to climate change mitigation and need to achieve better collaboration among all food chain participants to achieve ever more sustainable productivity.

Voluntary Carbon Standard interview on Climatechangecorp.com

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.

Commission car emissions proposal fails climate challenge

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.

Climate deal sealed by US U-turn

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.

Climate change as a financial risk?

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.

ISO, WRI and WBCSD to work together to promote Greenhouse Gas Standards

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.

UK to seek pact on shipping and aviation pollution at climate talks

5th Dec 2007

A recent Gaurdian article reports on the current United Nations Climate Change event being held in Bali this week.

Ethical Consumer not always green

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!

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