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Hicham Maged

A Cry for Mankind on Earth - 0 views

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    My message for the Climate Change conference for the year 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Arabica Robusta

allAfrica.com: Africa: Continent Rejects New Climate Change Pact (Page 1 of 1) - 0 views

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    "Developed" countries should take responsibility for climate change mitigation.
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    nice news change climate environment
Benno Hansen

Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen - 0 views

  • We can choose to go down the road towards green prosperity and a more sustainable future. Or we can choose a pathway to stalemate and do nothing about climate change leaving an enormous bill for our kids and grand-kids to pay.
  • According to the International Energy Agency every year lost to inaction will cost us 500 billion dollars.
  • The deal should involve binding medium and long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals for developed countries
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  • put the big developing economies on a cleaner and greener path to prosperity
  • provide assistance for the vulnerable countries
  • how we can work together to disseminate and develop technology and knowledge
Benno Hansen

Companies Reconsider Social Responsibility - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • Company spending has been squeezed by the global recession and budgets for corporate social responsibility have suffered disproportionately.
  • "There has been a tendency to compartmentalize so-called corporate social responsibility activities as an adjunct to the mainstream business activities."
  • "innovation is fundamentally about how the world can become a better place."
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  • "Corporate social responsibility asked the question: what is the impact of this business on the world? Sustainable business asks the question: what is the impact of the world on this business?"
  • "Companies are asking how they can be socially responsible in a way that also moves the business forward. It's no longer about having one corporate social responsibility guy who is supposed to be the moral compass for the company, like a chaplain in an Army regiment. It's about making sustainable business the standard operating procedure."
  • "Sustainable business has faced the ultimate double whammy of the credit crunch and the total damp squib that was Copenhagen. If climate change was the great driver for corporate social responsibility, then that driver seems to have stalled."
  • initiatives also increase employee loyalty
  • "If governments provide a strong legal framework that aligns incentives with business, then you have something you could call sustainability. If not, then corporate social responsibility will just be glacĂ© cherries on an unsustainable cake."
Alex Parker

The Alternative Power Dock - 0 views

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    Alternative maritime power for docked container vessels has made steady progress throughout the decade. But isn't it time more ports and shipping lines adopted the technology? asks Alex Hawkes. As the climate talks in Copenhagen draw to a close and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) comes under increasing pressure to address the shipping industry's carbon emissions, alternative maritime power (AMP) is looking an increasingly obvious solution.
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