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Why You Should Care About The Stern Review
News Sir Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist, lobbed a bombshell into the heart of the climate change debate on Monday. Norris-Gray claimed it "reinforces the position Sun has adopted with regard to climate change, in that it is both a...
[November 1, 2006, 12:54]
Intellect Implores Tech Sector To Go Green By 2020
News The UK technology industry has just 12 years to slash its rapidly growing carbon footprint if it is to help the world avoid catastrophic climate change, a study has found. Intellect claims the technology industry can exceed the target set by the...
[February 13, 2008, 9:07]
Climate Change And Its Impacts: Stabilisation Of CO2 In The Atmosphere
White Papers In this report, in order to contribute to the discussion on interpreting Annex 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, we investigate two scenarios of reduced emissions, leading to a stabilization of the concentration of CO2 in the...
[October 14, 2003, 4:41]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog The report, Key Elements of a Global Deal, includes input from HSBC, IdeaCarbon, Cambridge University, Lehman Brothers and consultants McKinsey and suggests a set of proposals to "advance the climate change debate" ahead of the United Nations...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Dell Trumpets Green Moves, Greenpeace Begs To Differ
Blog While it's good to see a company like Dell, making efforts around servers, we shouldn't forget the scale of the contribution that IT makes to climate change. The charity is now including criteria to assess the impact of electronics companies on...
[June 25, 2008, 17:25]
HP Pledges To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
News As part of its joint initiative with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the company will fund a project to study the effects of climate change on the wildlife and habitats of North America's Bering Sea. HP will also work with the WWF on educational...
[November 9, 2006, 10:16]
Satellite 'sentinels' To Help Fight Climate Change
News Professor David Crichton, consultant on insurance and climate change, cited a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that suggests policy now needs to focus on making infrastructure more resilient to climate change.
[November 13, 2007, 13:13]
Flying The Google Flag For Good Causes
News The current IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report suggests a one- to three-metre increase in sea level. I just did a Commonwealth Club talk with the undersecretary general of the UN, who just released a report called The Human...
[November 30, 2007, 13:48]
Green Activist Slams Government's Teleworking Policy
News The Prime Minister thinks it's a pretty ambitious goal to achieve its climate change goal of 20 percent," said Porritt. On Wednesday Forum for the Future launched a report on teleworking which showed how it can be used to reduce the impact that...
[December 9, 2004, 13:25]
BT Launches Major Drive To Cut CO2 Emissions
News Its Climate Stabilisation Intensity (CSI) target is one of the most aggressive yet set by a corporation. Dr Chris Tuppen, BT's director of sustainable development, said in a statement: "The Climate Stabilisation Intensity target creates a...
[June 3, 2008, 15:51]
Prince Charles Backs 'green' Thin Clients
News Speaking at the Second May Day Business Summit on Climate Change on Monday, HRH referred to the example of a recruitment company that claims to have reduced its power usage by migrating to thin clients.
[May 6, 2008, 17:40]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Comment And it looks like the US (and John Howard) were right all along… Nicholas Stern’s latest climate change report states: “The developing countries, which by 2050 will account for around eight billion out of a world population of nine billion, and...
[May 6, 2008, 14:09]
Companies Urged To Switch PCs Off
News With energy prices having soared in recent months, plus growing concerns over climate change, the amount of power used by PCs is a hot topic. In a report released on Monday, the PC maker claimed that £123m is wasted every year in the UK alone...
[October 24, 2005, 14:30]
Dell Aims For Carbon Neutrality
News Also on Wednesday, Dell's rival HP was awarded "Best in Class" for its approach to climate-change disclosure in a report by the Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 315 global investors.
[September 27, 2007, 17:29]
Cabinet Office Heads Government 'green' IT Drive
News Between us we can make a real difference in the fight against climate change," said Watson. The Cabinet Office made the recommendations in a report, Greening Government ICT, aimed at making the energy consumption of government ICT carbon-neutral...
[July 17, 2008, 13:09]
Lazy Employees Cost Businesses Dear Over PC Usage
News That gives us problems with climate change. Employees who leave their PCs on overnight each cost their companies £70 a year, according to a report produced by the National Energy Foundation. The report found that 18 percent of UK-based office...
[October 6, 2006, 17:15]
Lib Dems Call For Data Guardians
News The proposal is part of a documented plan aimed at safeguarding all personal data, in the wake of a number of government data-protection failures and what the party described as a "depressing climate of disrespect for the security of our personal...
[August 21, 2008, 9:17]
Jane Wakefield: E-ambassador, You Are Spoiling Us
News While Alex Allan -- his previous job was High Commissioner to Australia -- adjusts to the change of climate and settles into his new role, it might be worth reminding ourselves what his duties will be.
[January 21, 2000, 13:20]
More UK Dot-coms Log Off
News The new climate has also brought an abrupt end to sunny forecasts of an unimpeded road to an Internet future, and has forced startups to focus on making profits as soon as possible. For Adabra's e-commerce partners the deal works out as a simple...
[July 31, 2000, 12:48]
Online Banking: A Veil Of Safety
News Along with safeguarding medical histories, many people view their financial information as a sacred totem -- a record of their past and a window into their nest egg for the future -- and are increasingly distrustful of financial institutions in...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
