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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.

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Business Assurance Thought of the Day - Guardian Climate Change Summit Notes

– 16th Jun 2009 by Alex Briggs

Here is a collection of notes and thoughts from Guardian Climate Change Summit 2009 in London yesterday, most of which were posted yesterday on our www.twitter.com/lrqa page.

First session thoughts and notes
Quote from Gavin Neath, Senior VP Unilever “Organisations need to learn humility.For the past 30 years, environmental groups were right, businesses were wrong.”
Mars looking to work with PAS 2050 the carbon Footprinting for products, according to Fiona Dawson, Managing Director, Mars, UK

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Consumers will choose green gadgets in 2009

– 9th Jan 2009

In the near future, the “greenness” of a gadget will have a big influence on whether consumers will buy it, suggests research just published.

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Consumers on the importance of Food Labelling

– 7th Aug 2008 by Alex Briggs

This Food Business Daily article looks at the ever increasing amount of labels on food products. Are consumers paying attention to these claims and understanding what the claims mean? Or are there better ways to reach consumers?

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WRAP Business Plan 2008-2011

– 9th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

The “resoure efficiency loop” is the key to WRAP’s four-year business plan.

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Shoppers urge retailers to ditch non-green products

– 6th Jul 2008

More than three quarters of consumers want higher environmental product standards from government

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Check-out Carbon report leads to Carbon Labelling debate

– 3rd Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

Blog posts on events are supposed to be written immediately following the event or not at all. I am going to break that rule and write about a great Carbon Labelling event that took place on Monday, June 30th at the Lloyd’s Register HQ in London.
Forum for the Future, the sustainability charity in the UK, [...]

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Carbon Trust Standard launched

– 2nd Jul 2008

It has been developed to provide a much needed, clear and robust definition of good practice that can be used to judge an organisation’s commitment to and achievement of carbon reduction.

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Carbon labels to arrive in China

– 2nd Jul 2008

Carbon Trust to open office in Beijing as UK government steps up plans to address supply chain emissions.

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Are good intentions enough?

– 2nd Jul 2008

Telling customers about your environmental targets is all well and good but, as Paul Thomas argues, they are meaningless if you do not know how they are to be achieved.

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