Take action on climate change this May Day [BT broadband office]

Take action on climate change this May Day

Posted 30 April 2008 at 3:36PM by Hannah Gilchrist in Doing business online

Think you know everything about how your business can help stop climate change - think again. This May Day why not tune into BT's live May Day Business Summit on Climate Change and listen to the Prince of Wales and Gordon Brown discuss how businesses can do their bit to go green.

At the summit, 160 chief executives will discuss measures taken to reduce carbon over the past 12 months, and commit to further action. BT chairman Mike Rake will be one of the speakers alongside other hosts including Stuart Rose - chief executive of Marks & Spencer- and Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch.

The summit will be available to watch live on Thursday at 10.00am, but don't worry if you miss it, you can still catch up with the latest news on the event after it's happened at bt.com.

Tags: bt, bt broadband office, climate change, gordon brown, jeremy darroch, mike rake, prince of wales, stuart rose

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1. At May 1, 2008 10:16 AM, Vincent G wrote:

I applaud the idea behind this and my company is doing it's utmost to help the enviroment I trust the business of new road building and the contractors' role is considered - particularly in light of the following story from the Guardian. I don't know if it is still current or not (some of you may know) but it was on Countryfile on the BBC a couple of months ago...and provides food for thought

The story concerns the building of a new lane round part of the M25 ...

Perhaps someone can tell us if this project is going ahead.

Here's the story from the Guardian just over a year ago...and featured on BBC a month or so ago.

Road to Ruins

A mile of new motorway costs £30m - more than twice that with private finance - and causes increased traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet
Labour is set on a monster road building programme.

Richard Sadler reports

"The government's Highways Agency is offering £1.6bn to
a private consortium to widen around 60 miles of the M25
to four lanes in each direction. It will take five years to build, will swallow tens of thousands of acres of
greenbelt land, encourage yet more people to travel by car - and it will end up costing the taxpayer more than £5bn.

But the widening of the M25 in Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Essex is just one of 150 privately or publicly funded road schemes that have now been quietly approved or are already under construction.

That is more than four times the number of major schemes on the books than when Labour came to power nine years ago".

I for one am worried. Is my extra car tax paying for new roads to cause more pollution?

2. At May 2, 2008 5:42 PM, Alex Cain wrote:

If you really are worried. One solution is to do what me and my partner do. Pedal and walk. No car tax, insurance, petrol or emmissions. The fact that you drive, gets me worried.

3. At May 6, 2008 12:00 PM, Bob Roberts wrote:

Companies these days aren't doing enough to encourage car sharing. In every job i've had, the 1st thing I do is seek out fellow work mates who live in the same area as me to share the journey with, this not only cuts down on emmissions, but also on the petrol costs. It pains me to see the amount of cars in traffic jams and 90% of them have 1 person in them. If companies helped set up car sharing schemes, then everyone would benifit. 4 people in 1 car is far better than 4 people in 4 cars...

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