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Guardian Climate Change Summit

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, July 28, 2009 Climate Change

28th Jul 2009 by Alex Briggs

We are also quite sceptical when confronted with environmental claims from large organisations, assuming they are either greenwash or for PR.
That makes the following statement from Gavin Neath, Senior VP for Unilever all the more suprising and important:

I do think when business people talk about climate change, they ought to start with some humility. The harsh realities are that for the last thirty years or so the environmental movement has been right on this question and business has been fundamentally wrong. I think the salient point to make is that although business is now engaged with this question and many businesses are doing good work on it, the reality is that isn’t the case for all businesses and I don’t think business has fully internalised the consequences for it.

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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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Live Twitter updates from the Guardian Climate Change Summit 2009

15th Jun 2009

The Businessassurance.com editor is at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London today and will be providing live updates from the event on Twitter. Follow the editor here: www.twitter.com/lrqa
Businessassurance.com is there as an official media partner.

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Guardian Climate Change Summit

12th Jun 2009 by Alex Briggs

We will be attending the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London on next Monday (June 15th) as an official media partner. Here is a list of speakers scheduled. The complete agenda and further information can be found on the event website. We will be reporting on the event afterwards, including blogs and possibly some podcasts.

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June 8, 2009 Thought of the day – Climate Change

8th Jun 2009

The recession will be big, but climate change will be bigger.” Nicholas Stern.

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Business Assurance Thought and Link of the Day, May 21st 2009

21st May 2009 by Alex Briggs

Today’s thought of the day comes from one of the world’s leading climate change influencers, Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):


Failing to recognise the urgency of climate change and acting on it would be nothing less than criminally irresponsible.

At The Guardian Climate Change Summit on 15 June 2009, Yvo de Boer is just one of the leading thinkers from the climate change community who will be sharing insight, solutions and strategies to ensure your business can actively reduce impact on our climate. Click here for further info and a speaker programme.

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Business Assurance Thought of the Day, April 22, 2009

22nd Apr 2009 by Alex Briggs

www.businessassurance.com is proud to be a media supporter of the upcoming Guardian Climate Change Summit (Monday 15 June 2009, Hotel Russell, London). The Guardian’s Climate Change section is our link of the day today and features a wealth of information on all of the issues regarding the environment, both in the UK and around the globe.

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Guardian Climate Change Summit 2009

Event: 15th Jun 2009

A must attend event for anyone responsible for implementing strategies that impact on their businesses contribution to climate change.

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