CONTENTS
In this issue
INFORM COVER
STOR
05 Y❘ Idle Thoughts
CONTRIBUTORS
06 ❘ Carbon Reduction
08 ❘ Waste
Erik Jaques
09 ❘ Corporate Strategy
For this month’s special
Copenhagen review
10 ❘ Transport
supplement, Erik reports
from the Danish capital
12 ❘ Built environment
where he met up with UN
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climate change envoy,
Gro Brundtland, as well as a
13 ❘ The Peter McManners Column
number of key NGOs,
negotiators and businesses
14 ❘ Policy Tracker
(see Copenhagen Review)
REGULARS
21 ❘ Analysis
The Copenhagen summit failed to achieve
anything substantial – and sent out the
wrong message to businesses around the
world, according to Danny Stevens. He
28 17
looks at what went wrong at COP15 –
and the economic consequences of failure
David Strahan
23 ❘ Leaders
David is an award-winning
The construction business Willmott
investigative journalist and
Dixon is not letting the downturn impact
author of The Last Oil Shock:
on its environmental responsibilities.
A Survival Guide to the
Tom Idle hears how sustainability playing
Imminent Extinction of
Petroleum Man and a trustee
cards, ecotube biotechnology and
of the Oil Depletion
attention to biodiversity are all making
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Analysis Centre. Don’t miss
a difference
his cover story article looking
at tar sands (p24) 32 ❘ Diary 28 ❘ Sector profile
With much of the attention focused on
ethical drug supply, the pharmaceutical
FEATURES industry’s environmental performance
DON’T MISS...
can be overlooked. But green steps are
17 ❘ Round Table Debate being taken, report Melanie Brown
COPENHAGEN
Business leaders and Transport Minister and Lesley Chaplin
Paul Clark MP gathered at the London
REVIEW
Transport Museum to discuss what the 30 ❘ Carbon reduction
Comment, analysis and
barriers were to low-carbon The National Industrial Symbiosis
assessment of the UN’s
transportation at the latest SB Round Programme has been reducing C02
latest climate change Table Debate. Tom Idle chaired the event emissions in the UK for the past five
summit years. No wonder other countries are
24 ❘ Cover story looking at our programme and hoping to
To many campaigners Canada’s open-cast reproduce its success as a way of
Smarter Gro A look at
cities Brundtland future policy
The growing role The UN’s special The carbon-cutting
of urban leaders envoy on climate policies UK business
in the fight to save change assesses the must be ready for
Sustainable Business the planet COP15 outcomes from 2010 onwards bitumen mines are a symbol of climate mitigating the impacts of climate change,
MAKING IT HAPPEN February 2010
catastrophe, while for the oil industry says Peter Laybourne
they appear a powerful resource.
C OPENHAGEN
David Strahan reports on why the
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