Day: 1 September 2003

Technically speaking

Black & Veatch's Frank Rogalla looks at a water taste and odour plan

or better – or worse

Emissions trading could harm UK competitiveness argues John Constable, senior economist at Esso UK

Time for a change

EMAS and ISO14001 need to change if they are to engage smaller companies, argues Dr Ruth Hillary

Concrete action

Noel Morrin has worked at the cutting edge of environmental management for over 10 years - first with ICI, then as director of Business in the Environment, where he developed the BiE Index. He is now international environment director of cement manufacturer RMC. Rob Bell asked him about his management strategy for the multinational company

It’s a liability

Faye Clamp says that business is right to oppose the revamped version of the Environmental Liability Directive

Mayer Parry case sheds new light on metal packaging waste definition

Maria Cull, from law firm Herbert Smith, analyses recent environmental court rulings concerning business

Proposal to prevent pollution from mining waste

Claire Monkhouse from the IEEP looks at the latest developments at the European Commission

Mandatory standards dropped from proposed air quality directive

Claire Monkhouse from the IEEP looks at the latest developments at the European Commission

Industrial carbon dioxide emissions increase crop yield

Wisconsin-based AG Gas claims to have achieved excellent results from its use of carbon dioxide emissions for open-field crop yield enhancement.

Sterilising and sorting municipal waste

Sterecycle has developed a system for sterilising and recycling unsorted domestic waste so that 90% of the waste stream can be diverted from landfill without separated kerbside collection.

CRed – the low-carbon revolution

by Dr Simon Gerrard, Project Manager, The Community Carbon Reduction Project

Nearly all of the articles published on climate change paint a picture of impending doom: floods, droughts, severe storms, hurricane force winds, heat waves and so on. Although such extreme events are possible outcomes of climate change, they are by no means inevitable. For this generation, the opportunity still exists to stabilise the climate and thus reduce the impacts of severe weather events. Climate scientists acknowledge that to stabilise climate change requires a significant reduction of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. The Government’s recent Energy White Paper sets out a target for a 60% reduction by 2050 – the ‘60% Challenge’.

New international partnership – the REEEP – to help deliver success on climate change

by Dr. Denis MacShane, British Foreign Office Minister

No one should doubt the UK government’s commitment to taking action against climate change. Our intention to put the UK on a path to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60% by 2050 - with real progress by 2020 – is well known. Within the UK we are undertaking a series of bold measures – some of which are outlined by the Carbon Trust’s Tom Delay in this edie report – to ensure the transition to a low carbon economy.