the moment is glacial. without the right
systems, metrics, methodologies, audit
processes and so on, this issue won’t get
any traction inside for-profit enterprises.
they have to look after jobs, dividends,
competitiveness and productivity.

is the Uk meeting its emissions targets?
the Uk is one of the countries that is
expected to meet its formal kyoto targets,
and that is encouraging. as i write there’s
further reason to be hopeful because the
forthcoming climate change bill should, for
the first time, take into account aviation and
shipping as part of the new emissions goals.
it’s still not painting the full picture though as
we aren’t counting the pollution being 43
caused indirectly by us importing products
from other countries. so, although the Uk is
showing leadership, its footprint is still not
being fully measured.
are there lessons we can learn from
the rest of the world?
although this is a challenge for everybody,
some of the scandinavian countries are
“from a commercial
on downward trajectories in terms of their
emissions that are really very impressive.
sector perspective –
germany has also made major inroads into
and sometHing
its co
2
emissions, especially by ramping-up
investments in renewables of every kind.
atkins Has stressed
it has also massively accelerated investments
verY Hard – the
in housing efficiency – not just new-build,
emPhasis now
which is the easy bit, but existing housing
stock, which is more difficult. germany has
needs to be even embarked on a huge programme to bring
tighter, and
all of its housing up to minimum levels of
harder, on energy
energy efficiency over the next few years.
i think that we need to take lessons
effiCienCy in terms
from these countries as and when we can,
of cost redUction
because we can’t pretend that we’re
completely on top of this yet. we still have
and competitiveness”
a long way to go.
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