The governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has warned major corporates that disclosing their exposure to climate change is “essential” to the emergence of a market-based solution.
UK-based manufacturers could improve their output by as much as £2.56 billion by 2025 – and boost the UK’s international competitiveness – by investing more in energy efficiency technologies, Barclays has claimed.
Almost a quarter of UK universities are expected to miss the higher education (HE) sector’s carbon reduction targets for 2020 according to People and Planet, which has blamed the removal of government and funding council support for ‘dwindling’ performance.
A number of major businesses of the Prince of Wales’ Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) have said that the international community must start to put 2050 climate strategies into place now if the world is to meet more pressing aims.
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has signed the instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement, making the UK the latest country to officially adopt the commitments made by 197 countries to limit global warming to two degrees.
More than 350 businesses, including a significant number of major multinational firms, have co-signed a letter addressed to global leaders attending COP22 this week in Marrakech, urging them to support the Paris Climate Agreement.
Business confidence in the government’s ability to meet the requirements of the COP21 climate change agreement has hit severely low levels according to a new survey by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and AECOM.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed that just 50 businesses are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions one day before the landmark Paris Agreement comes into force.
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has completed a record-breaking refurbishment of its London office, achieving the lowest embodied carbon footprint ever recorded for a project of its kind in the UK.
Knauf Insulation has reported significant progress towards its 2020 sustainability targets after seeing its energy use and emissions fall by 17.5% and 16.4% respectively since 2010.
