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Businesses launch major climate change campaign

Over one hundred of the region’s top businesses will come together to create a single action plan on climate change at an event on 1 May 2007. It will mark the beginning of a national business-led campaign for increased action on climate change. Companies attending will be asked to make firm commitments on what they will do to tackle their contributions to climate change. Those that are already working on and developing carbon reduction strategies will be encouraged to do more and share their knowledge. Companies will be offered on-going support to achieve these aims by Business in the Community and the Carbon Trust.

The event at the BALTIC Gateshead will be one of nine simultaneous events, bringing together over 1,000 chief executives and senior directors across the UK, and linked into a ‘hub’ event at St James’s Palace in London, hosted by Business in the Community’s President, The Prince of Wales.

Karen Wilkinson-Bell, Business in the Community’s North East Director, said: “A number of progressive companies in the North East have taken a lead on managing their carbon footprint, but we urgently need to spread that good practice across the region’s business community. Small and medium-sized companies often complain that this is so much harder for them than for bigger companies. But the money to be saved still makes this a win-win agenda: better for business and better for the planet. We hope that this Summit will provide a platform for change for business leaders from across all business sectors in the North East, whatever their company size.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .