Edinburgh, 24 September 2007, Some of the UK’s leading businesses gathered in Edinburgh on Monday for talks on carbon targets. Firms including Diageo, Aviva, Scottish Power and Liittlewoods attended the outreach event, hosted by Royal Bank of Scotland.
The seminar was organised by the UK Network of the UN Global Compact and CIFAL Findhorn with the aim of raising awareness of how to reduce carbon emissions.
Delegates heard from a range of keynote speakers including Nicolas Frizon de Lamotte, Senior Programme Coordinator, UNITAR and Soren Petersen, Head of UN Global Compact Network, Michael Spenley, Chairman of UK Network of UNGC and Michael Shaw, Director, The Ecovillage Institute.
The networking event focused on the impact of climate change on business and investment and the carbon emission reduction strategies which businesses can adopt.
The session was led by CIFAL Findhorn with a presentation that focused on how to establish a carbon baseline and ways of identifying direct and indirect emissions; how to consume less, manage the supply chain and how to make direct emissions carbon neutral. The session also embraced low carbon technologies and investigated the potential for low carbon operations. Advice was provided on energy efficiency, carbon technologies and other practical measures for business including grants, tax incentives and carbon trading.
Findhorn Ecovillage was adopted as a case study to illustrate best practice and a number of other case studies, including RBS and Aviva, were used as topics for group discussion and problem solving.
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