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Corporates want Climate Framework
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Aubrey Meyer
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Jun 03, 2005 08:55 PDT
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Are BP, Shell and other Corporate Leaders asking for C&C?
“At present, we believe that the private sector and governments are
caught in a ‘Catch 22’ situation with regard to tackling climate change.
Governments tend to feel limited in their ability to introduce new
policies for reducing emissions because they fear business resistance,
while companies are unable to take their investments in low carbon
solutions to scale because of lack of long-term policies.
In order to help break this impasse, we are proposing to work in
partnership with the Government in order to support the development of a
world-leading climate change policy framework . . . . "
Sir John Bond, Group Chairman & Stephen Green, Group Chief Executive,
HSBC Neil Carson, Chief Executive, Johnson Matthey Howard Carter, Chief
Executive, F&C Asset Management Mike Clasper, Chief Executive, BAA Iain
Conn, Executive Director, BP Jonson Cox, Chief Executive, AWG Mervyn
Davies, Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank Sir Stuart Hampson,
Chairman, John Lewis Partnership Rob Lloyd, President EMEA, Cisco
Systems Ian Russell, Chief Executive, Scottish Power Hugh Scott-Barrett,
Chief Operating Officer, ABN Amro James Smith, UK Chairman, Shell Trudy
Norris-Grey, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Sun Microsystems
Letter and press release at: -
http://www.gci.org.uk/correspondence/Corporate_Leaders_pressrelease_letter.pdf
The letter is ambiguous and the CO2 ceiling is a death-wish 550ppmv, but
the CEOs are stepping up slowly for the framework . . .
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METREX certainly are certainly behind C&C.
“Contraction and Convergence (C&C) is the only approach to the crisis of
climate change that appears to offer an equitable (and therefore
politically feasible) and effective way forward.”
METREX is the Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas.
It is a network of practitioners, that is, politicians, officials and
their advisers, concerned with the spatial planning and development at
the metropolitan level.
It is essentially a network through which key European strategic
decision makers can share their knowledge, experience and expertise.
Strathclyde House 2
20 India Street
GLASGOW
G2 4PF
http://www.gci.org.uk/briefings/METREX.pdf
http://www.eurometrex.org/EN/Meetings/meetings.asp?TitleID=Nürnberg%202005&PicID=nurnberg&Cat=Meetings&SubCat1=Nurnberg_2005
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And eleven of 19 institutional witnesses to the C&C Audit by EAC, were
too . . . .
Institute of Civil Engineers
British Nuclear Fuels
Policy Studies Institute
Action Committee for a Global Climate Community
The Tyndall Centre
The Hadley Centre
Council for the Protection of Rural England
FEASTA
Future Forests
Global Commons Institute
Climate Capital
The others were agnostic with the exception of Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds [RSPB] who appeared to argue that it was only
acceptable if Developing Countries argued for it.
[Maybe RSPB haven't noticed something . . . ].
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