CONTENTS
In this issue
INFORM
05 ❘ Idle Thoughts
CONTRIBUTORS
06 ❘ Carbon Reduction
07 ❘ Built Environment
Heather Haydock
08 ❘ Waste
Heather is a knowledge
leader for energy and
09 ❘ Corporate Strategy
climate change at the
environmental consultancy
10 ❘ Finance
AEA. This month, she gives
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an overview of the latest
report produced by the
11 ❘ Transport
Government’s independent
Committee on Climate
13 ❘ The Peter McManners Column
Change (p18)
14 ❘ Policy Tracker
REGULARS
16 ❘ Analysis
Change flowing in: the European
28 25
Commission’s Water Framework Directive
is considered to be the most significant
water legislation in a generation. Ian
David Strahan
Rippin explains how it will work and how
David is an award-winning
industry and government should prepare
investigative journalist and
author of The Last Oil Shock:
25 ❘ Leaders
A Survival Guide to the
Fizzy drinks and the future: Tom Idle
COVER
Imminent Extinction of
discovers how PepsiCo UK & Ireland is
STOR
Petroleum Man and a trustee
Y
of the Oil Depletion
striving to cut its energy and water use and
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Analysis Centre. Don’t miss
break the link between business growth
his piece this month looking
and environmental impact
at the issue of peak oil (p28) 30 ❘ Cover story
36 ❘ Diary With the UK’s commercial property
sector struggling and facing the possibility
FEATURES of further problems, when will sustainable
DON’T MISS...
buildings start being valued properly?
26 ❘ Interview Juliet Davenport Kate McKinley talks to industry experts
ROUND TABLE
Woman of substance: the chief executive about why green initiatives have so far had
of Good Energy tells Erik Jaques why only a marginal impact on prices and
DEBATES
she’s frustrated by government policies – reveals why valuers, landlords and tenants
Check out this month’s
and how she hopes her company’s all need to embrace green credentials
special pull-out report
innovations can inspire the industry’s big
on the latest round table players to take action 32 ❘ Office carbon emissions
session on the CRC Adrian Phillips examines the legal issues
28 ❘ Carbon reduction that impact on green initiatives with
Conventional oil production could peak regard to commercial buildings and
much sooner than policymakers reckon – explains why a major legislative overhaul
and the impact may be upon us before the is the only answer
worst effects of climate change.
Free with
David Strahan reflects on the findings of
the UK Energy Research Centre’s new
this issue
report and sounds out depletion experts
of SB
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