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Environmental Industry: by James Cameron, executive business can hope for from
Anticipating UK and EU Policy
MARCH 2009
director of clean tech invest- COP15 is “that it is not a
Cavendish Conference Centre, 4 ment firm Climate Change calamitous failure”. He had a
London BWEA Wave & Tidal 2010 Capital. The theme was few points to make to govern-
Environmental Industries QEII Conference Centre, Copenhagen and the run-up ment, too. “Listen to business”
Commission London to COP15, an “important was his first request. On policy,
020 7935 1675 h.jones@bwea.com meeting”, according to he said the UK needed to get
info@eic-uk.co.uk 020 7901 3014 Cameron, but “there will not it right, adding that the Feed-
eic-uk.co.uk/ bwea.com/marine/ be a cliff face we fall off” if an in-Tariff system (copied from
eicnationalconference2009.cfm conference2010.html agreement isn’t reached in the elsewhere in Europe) looks like
Danish capital during it has been “designed to fail”
9 December. He was there in because the “buy-in level is
Environmental Law
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Kyoto in 1997. That was COP7, too low”. The same applies to
Conference 2009: and negotiators had every retrofitting buildings with ener-
Understanding the Impact of intention of reaching an gy efficiency equipment.
Recent Development agreement on the Kyoto “There’s been some nice
The Mayfair Hotel, Stratton Protocol in the previous six pilot schemes, but it’s time
Street, London COPs, but it didn’t happen. to turn aspirations into rock
Thomson Reuters 20-22 This time around, discus- solid targets.”
020 7393 7859 Sustainabilitylive! sions will be just as complex, He concluded by asking
conferences@ NEC, Birmingham said Cameron, not least DECC to “get over its nuclear
sweetandmaxwell.co.uk Faversham House Group because the negotiations will fantasies”. “But that’s never
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14 sustainabilitylive.com those countries which have rat- Listening intently was
Climate Change ified Kyoto, and one for the DECC’s Chris Dodswell who
London US. “It’s mad. But it’s the only was keen to point out to
Institute of Environmental way of keeping the US in the attendees how committed the
Management & Assessment negotiations,” he said. UK Government is to its low-
01522 540069 But Cameron then revealed carbon transition plans. And
iema.net his Plan B idea. Instead of forc- the session was wrapped up by
20-22 ing the US into a one-track EcoSecurities’ Alexander
Sustainable Business – The option, he suggests the Kyoto Sarac who said it will be a
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Event Protocol is extended and the “nightmare for investment” if
27 NEC, Birmingham US is allowed to go its own a global agreement is delayed
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