Posts Tagged: green business

John Compton manages Streetclub by B&Q (Kingfisher), which is the first social network aimed at getting neighbours at street level to talk, share and save together to build a stronger sense of community spirit. B&Q is exploring models of collaborative consumption by creating social network sites such as Streetclub and is featured in WWF’s new [...]

‘Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century’.  PwC. ‘The world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss’.  Convention on Biological Diversity. Optimisation is clearly failing.  We need to [...]

Manik Jolly, director of rural solar solutions at solar energy firm SunEdison, launched Eradication of Darkness – an electrification programme in rural India. . . The programme is featured in WWF’s new report, Green Game-Changers: Insights for mainstreaming business innovation. “Can you imagine not having electricity? Or being reliant on a diesel generator that provides [...]

Playing a part in a safe, secure and affordable energy system will give an energy company a social licence to operate. But what does such an energy system look like? Well, first let’s look at what it doesn’t look like. Many energy scenarios paint a bleak picture of climate change – with carbon emissions reaching [...]

This morning hundreds of people in green hard hats gathered in central London. Under the banner of Stop Climate Chaos, organisations as diverse as the Women’s Institute, faith groups, Oxfam, TearFund, renewable energy companies, trade unions and charities including WWF called on the government to do one thing: boost our economy and international leadership by [...]

Money is an amazing thing. Although a human created concept, it has become an elemental force of its own – it moves people, companies, markets, and nations. Money is a great mirror of society and, how we relate to it, is reflection of our worldviews, values and beliefs. For many, many people, money is power, [...]

There’s a big push this week to promote investment in the shift to a green economy, to get the UK on the road to economic recovery. Our new report, ‘Building green economies’, shows why this is essential and how it can be done. Recent analysis has shown the growing importance of low-carbon and environmental industries [...]

As mentioned in my last blog, the Liberal Democrat leaders have been making strong statements about how the green economy can help get us out of recession. Few will forget the rousing chorus from Ed Davey: “No turning back from tackling climate change. No turning back green jobs. No turning back from green growth.” And [...]

Many of us often complain about the slow pace of change – the slow trudge towards a green economy – but there are reasons to be excited. So many business plans are getting a real make-over right now. Just over the last few weeks, there have been some impressively well organised deep dives with companies [...]

For some time, WWF has been concerned that the promised Green Investment Bank (GIB) is not really a bank at all, but merely a fund. The problem is its lack of borrowing powers, which the treasury department has tied to all sorts of conditions in the wider economy that mean indefinite delays for the bank. [...]