EDITORIAL VIEW
Editor: Geraldine Faulkner
Sub-editors: Tom Freyberg and
Caroline Davidson
Self interest: The real
Editorial contributors: David Burrows,
Lucia Cockcroft, Tom Freyberg and Ruari
McCallion
obstacle to change?
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D
espite one’s best efforts to be cheerful, things are not looking all that great at
the moment are they? As Sustainable Solutions went to press (for the last time in
Ad design: Carolyn Allen hard copy as the magazine is going to be only available in a digital format from February
Publishing director: Fiona Richards onwards) nations are meeting in poznan, poland for the Un climate talks to theoretically
EDITORIAL BOARD
set the terms of a new deal on climate change. instead they're going head-to-head over
Richard Bahu
targets with italy and poland threatening to veto agreed targets.
Commercial manager, Chemistry Innovation
Despite the eU arguing for richer nations to pledge cuts of between 25% and 40%
Knowledge Transfer Network.
from 1990 levels by 2020, poland, a major coal producer, is heading a group of countries
Mark Barthel
that are unhappy about committing themselves to ambitious climate change pledges.
Special advisor, retail and innovation
it staggers me that one country can put its own interests before those of the greater
initiatives, WRAP.
world community, but then i suppose i should not be surprised.
Phillip Cozens
On a parochial level, I am experiencing similar selfishness. I live in a small village
Head of technology development,
where our country lane is being used as a rat run. Fed up with white van man and
Progressive Energy. Audi executive racing past our houses and making our windows rattle, my neighbours
Bill Duncan and i approached our local council to see what measures can be taken to ‘discourage’
Managing director, ASSURRE. motorists from using our lane as a short cut. But at a meeting in the village hall with
Jim Haywood a representative from the local council, instead of presenting a united front, the locals
Director, Business in the Environment. promptly started arguing among themselves about traffic calming measures.
Joanna Lee “I don’t want the road closed and I have to go another way as it will add five minutes
Director of communications, to my drive to work,” said one person. “it’s going to be an infringement of my personal
The Carbon Disclosure Project.
liberty,” said another.
Dr Stuart McLanaghan
But what about preventing non-residents from abusing our lane? no, everyone had
Director, Eden 21.
lost interest in that. the discussion degenerated into a squabble with the man from the
Euan Murray
council looking bemused. sadly, it looks as if the meeting in poznan is going to resemble
Strategy manager,The Carbon Trust.
my traffic calming meeting but on a grander scale.
Paul Nieuwenhuis,
Having said that, do not scoff at projects being carried out at a local level. For
Assistant director, Centre of Automotive
instance, according to a piece in The Guardian, locals in Derbyshire have funded
Industry Research, Cardiff University.
Britain’s first hydro-power store. Their Co-op is running its electricity through a link
Daianna Rincones
with the nearby river, Goyt, and the small-scale hydro scheme is expected to generate
Business support and development
240,000kW hours of electricity a year, enough it is hoped to provide more than half of
manager, Business in the Environment.
the 680sq m store’s needs.
AnnuAl subscription rAte What lesson can be learned from this? i reckon it must be to leave governments to
UK & EirE 2008 ratEs
fight it out in boardrooms and let locals get on with doing the practical stuff.
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