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BCSD-UK March 2011 UPDATE 
The Business Council for Sustainable Development – United Kingdom is the pre-eminent national business network run by businesses to promote the values of sustainable development and explore related business opportunities. We are the only affiliated branch in the UK of the World Business Council. Our electronic newsletters are distributed to circa 3,000 contacts in more than 50 countries

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  March 30 – Skanska features in first BCSD-UK Pathway Workshop
  • Why a major international sector leader such as Skanska embeds sustainability through its operation will be answered by their Operations Director Jason Tucker.
  • Pathway workshops in Aberdeen, Fife, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London Docklands
  • Live linked to World Business Council in Geneva

Click here for more information

 

Energy Workshop

Localised Energy – Glasgow. March 22 - Click here for more information

 

March 31st Localised Manufacturing
BCSD-UK members wll explore the issue of localised manufacturing. Hosted by Tata Steel Europe in London

davdm@ebc-info.co.uk for more information

 

9 Billions People – Rio+20 – The Future of Capitalism – latest Update from WBCSD President Bjorn Stigson

Latest UPDATE from WBCSD President via
http://www.bcsd-uk.co.uk/Documentation/WBCSD_executive_member_update.pdf

  Report on World Business Council Energy and Climate Change Working Group Meeting in Brussels

Reports on:
  • Cancum and the mechanisms
  • Working Group Submission
  • Carbon pricing
  • NAMA
  • Policy instruments
  • European Commission
davdm@ebc-info.co.uk for copies
  Government Kills Off SD – says Porritt
Former (well he will be by the end of the month when the government finally closes its doors) Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, Jonathon Porritt hears the death knell ringing for SD. www.jonathonporritt.com/pages
 

The Carbon Trust and Siemens launch new green finance deal worth £550 million to green businesses in the UK

www.carbontrust.co.uk/news/news/press-centre/2011/Pages/financingscheme.aspx

  The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010
Via the World Business Council I have a copy of a Harvard Business Review blog which takes and interesting view of climate change and associated issues.

Copy on request via
davdm@ebc-info.co.uk
  Changes at Business Contact Group
We are sorry to see John Fletcher move on from the Business Contact Group at DEFRA where he has been very helpful to the BCSD-UK. John moves onto a new post in farming regulation. Mike Simmons is now in interim charge of the Green Economy Programme.
 

BCSD-UK CEO Presentations
BCSD-UK CEO has chaired events and presented at events recently in Solihull, Birmingham and Belfast. Copies on request via davdm@ebc-info.co.uk

 

Vincent LECAT
From the WBC branch in France and Via Paris to London and looking for work opportunities is former World Business Council Project Manager Vincent Lecat. CV via davdm@ebc-info.co.uk

 

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Contact Details

David Middleton, CEO BCSD-UK, EBC Ltd, Unit F3 The Arch, 48-52 Floodgate Street, Birmingham B5 5SL
Email: davidm@ebc-info.co.uk Tel: 0121-693-8338 Fax: 0121-693-8448 

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