Climate Week
One week to show how we can combat climate change - 21 to 27 March 2011
Thousands of events and activities, highlighting the positive steps being taken to help combat climate change, are being planned by organisations from every part of society for the UK’s first Climate Week.
Climate Week will be a supercharged national occasion that offers an annual renewal of Britain’s ambition and confidence to combat climate change. It is for everyone wanting to do their bit to protect our planet and create a secure future.
Climate Week will shine a spotlight on the many steps already being taken in workplaces and communities across Britain. The power of these real, practical examples - the small improvements and the big innovations - will then inspire millions more people.
Thousands of businesses, charities, schools, councils and others will run events during Climate Week on 21-27 March 2011. They will show what can be achieved, share ideas and encourage thousands more to act during the rest of the year.
Climate Week is backed by every part of society - from the Prime Minister to Paul McCartney, the NHS to the National Trust, Girlguiding UK to the CBI, the Big Lottery Fund to the National Association of Head Teachers.
Climate Week is sponsored by a Headline Partner - Tesco - and four Supporting Partners - Aviva, EDF Energy, Kellogg’s and RBS - which all have a deep commitment to action on climate change.
Tesco believes that retail businesses can play a powerful role in tackling climate change and is determined to play its part. Tesco has saved over 2.5 million tonnes of carbon since 2006 and has already opened the world’s first zero-carbon supermarket. It aims to become a zero-carbon business by 2050 - without purchasing offsets. In addition it has committed to work with its suppliers to reduce emissions from products in its supply chain by 30% by 2020 and to have found ways to help its customers halve their own carbon footprints by 2020.
Aviva was the first insurer to be carbon neutral worldwide, EDF Energy is Britain’s largest producer of low carbon electricity, Kellogg’s is reducing greenhouse emissions 15-20% per tonne of food and RBS has the best rating from the Carbon Disclosure Project of any UK bank.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron said: “We all have a shared responsibility to act on climate change, and our generation will rightly be judged by our response to it. Climate Week will help to give real momentum to this work, highlighting practical ways in which we can all make a difference, and I am delighted to welcome it.”
Other eminent people backing Climate Week include |28| ENVIRONMENT INDUSTRY MAGAZINE
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