December 3, 2007—British businesses are committed to doing what it takes to tackle climate change but the UK effort will only succeed if it becomes an urgent, shared national priority for companies, consumers and the government, a groundbreaking new report from the Confederation of Business Industries (CBI) shows.
Eighteen chairmen and chief executives from every area of British business, led by BT Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen, have spent 10 months assessing the challenge of climate change and how to tackle it.
The UK’s carbon reduction targets for 2020 are likely to be missed but its 2050 goals are achievable if a greater sense of urgency is now adopted. In Climate Change: Everyone’s Business, Task Force members pledge to adapt their businesses for the new low carbon world, including a promise to develop new products and services to empower households to halve their emissions by 2020; and a commitment to work with their employees to achieve major cuts in their emissions both at work and at home.
The CBI mission is to help create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in the United Kingdom can compete and prosper for the benefit of all. For the full report, see the organization’s Web site.
