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Sir David King speaking at a Greenpeace Business Lecture
'Greenpeace Business' is a quarterly business newsletter, a lecture series, and more. Combined, Greenpeace Business initiatives provide a vital channel of communication between environmentalists and industry. We explain environmental problems, in the language of business.
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Greenpeace Business: past issues
Ken Livingstone delivers a Greenpeace Business lecture on powering London without nuclear energy
Download past issues of Greenpeace Business:
August 2006 (pdf, 516kb)
Including energy's future and why it must be decentralised; London's zero carbon homes at no extra cost; China's development; what we need from government; BP's $8 billion alternative energy plans; soya giants agree moratorium in the Amazon; more illegal timber found on Government site; progress to eliminate toxic waste; and taking the bomb out of politics.
Published on September 21, 2006
London mayor backs decentralised energy
Posted by bex on 20 March 2006.
In March 2006, London Mayor Ken Livingstone delivered a Greenpeace Business Lecture outlining why decentralised energy is the way forward for London and the UK. You can read about his speech or watch excerpts from the lecture:
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Chief Scientist: we need immediate action on climate change
Posted by bex on 14 October 2004.
Sir David King
According to the government's chief scientist, Sir David King, while the evidence continues to grow, what we really need to see is action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
"Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," said Sir David at the Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming in London.
As scientists around the world study the changes in our climate going back almost a million years, they confirm what many of us know, climate change is already here.
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Transcript of Sir David King speaking at the Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming
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It's a great honour for me to be here speaking at the Greenpeace business lecture and it's also a wonderful opportunity for me to talk to you about the issue that, as Doug has just said, I consider to be the most serious issue facing us this century and beyond. What I'm going to do is run through the science behind climate change and then I'll run through what the British government is doing and what the international situation is and the sorts of things that we all ought to be doing on this issue. So just kicking off with the science.
Published on October 13, 2004
Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming: the imperatives for action
Posted by bex on 11 October 2004.
Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom and Head of the Office of Science and Technology, will deliver a speech at the next Greenpeace Business lecture. The lecture will be held at the Royal Society of Arts and will be chaired by Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK. Ithe third Greenpeace Business lecture on Tuesday 12 October 2004. The lecture will focus on the science of global warming and the need for action. Tags:
January 25th 2005: Lord Ron Oxburgh, Charman of Shell UK, delivers the latest Greenpeace Business Lecture
Lord Ron Oxburgh, Chairman of Shell UK
Ken's vision for a low carbon London
Watch excerpts from Ken's speech.
It's the capital of the UK, the biggest energy demand centre in the country and the largest city in Europe. And it can slash its CO2 emissions, gas consumption and reliance on fossil fuels without nuclear power.
That was London Mayor Ken Livingstone's message when he laid out his vision for a low carbon London at a Greenpeace Business lecture in March 2006. The mayor called for the government to invest in decentralised energy (DE) instead of wasting taxpayers' money on nuclear power - "the failed technology of the past".
Published on August 29, 2003
What is Greenpeace Business?
President of the Wold Bank, James Wolfensohn, delivers a Greenpeace Business lecture in 2002
Published on June 19, 2002