CONTENTS
In this issue
COVER
STOR
INFORM
Y
05 ❘ Idle Thoughts
CONTRIBUTORS
06 ❘ Corporate responsibility
07 ❘ Built Environment
Richard Burge
08 ❘ Waste
Richard joins the SB team
this month as our new
09 ❘ Corporate strategy
columnist. As director of 20
sustainability for The
10 ❘ Finance
Property Merchant Group,
his flavoursome offerings will
examine a raft of sustain-
11 ❘ Transport
ability issues, kicking off this
time with the working-from-
12 ❘ Pollution control
home debate (p14)
13 ❘ The Peter McManners Column
14 ❘ Richard Burge
16
18 24
❘ Policy tracker
REGULARS
18 ❘ Leaders
BT’s Chris Tuppen explains that carrots
Chris Tuppen
can prove more effective than legislative
As chief sustainability officer
sticks at encouraging countries to achieve
at BT Group, Chris provides
emissions targets
copy for this month’s
Leaders feature on his firm,
30 ❘ Diary
and uses the platform to
explain that, while it’s all very
well threatening countries
31 ❘ The Green Mondays Column
28
with legislative sticks, carrots
can be more effective in
32 ❘ Market Intelligence
cutting emissions (p18) 24 ❘ Utilities’ performance
35 ❘ Notes from Selsdon The utility sector is responsible for a vast
quantity of carbon emissions, and it also
FEATURES
has a fundamental responsibility to the
DON’T MISS...
general public in terms of leadership,
20 ❘ Cover story writes Jamie Curry
DESIGNING
Interview with Caroline Lucas
The next general election promises a 26 ❘ Nuclear energy
OUT CARBON
breakthrough for the Green Party. And its The government is failing to underpin
A new supplement on
leader, MEP Caroline Lucas, may be on its energy policy with scientific research,
low-carbon workplaces,
her way to a seat in the Commons. Eric writes Richard H Phillips, who heralds
energy efficiency and Jaques meets the controversial politician nuclear as ‘the greenest of technologies’
building sustainably
22 ❘ Jobs 28 ❘ Compost
The economic crisis is decimating From humble origins as a soil improver
workforces. But, out of the blackness, in gardens, to its commercial application
a huge demand is growing for climate in large-scale brownfield regeneration
change and carbon reduction services. projects, compost has always been
Free with
And with this comes new jobs – as the recognised as a unique and versatile
government aims to create a green material, writes Paul Mathers. And, he
this issue
economy that will pull us out of the says, it can help the construction sector
of SB
recession, writes John Haven save costs and boost its green credentials
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