Change or face the consequences
October 1st 2009 Mike Brannigan, the chief executive of TDG, said at a CILT conference earlier this year: “We have yet to find anything green that does not have a payback.”More recently,Marks & Spencer said it hopes to save £150m per annum by honing its supply chain. And in December, world leaders meet in Copenhagen to work out whether anything can be done to halt irreversible climate change.
Sounding remarkably like Sir Stuart Rose, Gordon Brown has said ‘there is no Plan B’: If no agreement is reached and no global reduction in emissions made, life will soon become very much tougher for much of the world.
Some will say what’s the point – China and America are busy burning fossil fuels like (funnily enough) there’s no tomorrow. But in reality, China has grasped the business benefits of greener procurement – with the State Council implementing a compulsory green procurement list for local governments.
There are many easy ways to save cost and reduce utility usage within our sector – and the sustainable firms are already doing so. For those who don’t, the future looks about as bright as it does for the half million planet inhabitants who, according to Kofi Anaan, will die each year from 2030 onwards because of climate change.
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