The management systems community
3rd Dec 2010
Luis Carneiro, Climate Change Manager Latin America, LRQA Ltd blogs about his attendance at the official meeting of the SBSTA (Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice) yesterday on subjects relating to the CDM, at the impressive Moon Palace.
2nd Dec 2010
Speaking to the media on the third day of the conference, Christiana Figueres said that Cancun can deliver on adaptation, technology transfer, forests and funding, and can also clarify what to do about the Kyoto Protocol and how to anchor targets and actions. Compromise is the key word, she stressed, adding that she sees the [...]
2nd Dec 2010
The official website for COP 16 / CMP 6 supplies daily programmes to each day’s official meetings which will happen at COP 16 / CMP 6 in Cancun, including side events and press briefings.
Event: 30th Nov 2010 – 10th Dec 2010
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. Follow LRQA on twitter to keep up-to-date with the daily goings on at the event.
30th Nov 2010 by Alex Briggs
Paul Smith, LRQA’s Climate Change Manager, is an expert on environmental management systems and carbon footprinting. He works with global organisations verifying their greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring that their data are relevant, complete, consistent, accurate and transparent. In this short interview, he shares the basic elements that companies need to understand to successfully manage their carbon footprint.
19th Nov 2010 by Madlen King
The ‘World Energy Outlook 2010’ published by the International Energy Agency last week reflects on what it calls ‘the twin challenges of climate change and energy security’. According to the Annual report, the non-binding outcome of COP15 – the Copenhagen Accord – ‘falls a long way short of what is required to set us on [...]
19th Nov 2010 by Madlen King
An annual fixture in the Aircraft Manufacture & Finance industry calendar, The Geneva Forum has been bringing together Airframe and Engine manufacturers, Airline Fleet Planners and Financial Directors, Lessors, Commercial & Multilateral Financiers and Aviation experts for 25 years! 350 industry leaders from 35 countries are expected in Geneva from 21 – 24 February for the annual Aircraft Finance [...]
Event: 1st Mar 2011 – 3rd Mar 2011 by Madlen King
Carbon Market Insights 2011 Even as international climate policy is sluggish, weighed down by gloomy economies in many countries, business opportunities in the climate change area are proliferating. Several new emissions trading schemes are on the drawing board – massively scaled up financing is starting to reach developing economies – low carbon investments in energy [...]
Event: 29th Nov 2010 – 10th Dec 2010 by Madlen King
COP16/CMP6 is the 16th edition of Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) and the 6th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP). The aim is to discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of [...]
28th Oct 2010 by Madlen King
LRQA’s Global Head of Climate Change and Sustainability, filed this report following the second and final day of Carbon Forum Asia Conference in Singapore.
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