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“A warmer climate will bring both opportunities and challenges for businesses of all sizes. I want to ensure that UK businesses are well placed to take advantage of the new opportunities that arise as well as ensuring they are ready for the difficulties that higher temperatures and more adverse weather could mean for their staff and working practices.”

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climate/documents/eac-response-100804.pdf
4 August, 2010
UK Government Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman

“Integrated Reporting,” as Professor Mervyn King, Chairman of GRI explains, " builds on the practice of Financial Reporting, and Environmental, Social and Governance - or ESG - Reporting, and equips companies to strategically manage their operations, brand and reputation to stakeholders and be better prepared to manage any risk that may compromise the long-term sustainability of the business."

2 August 2010
Global Reporting
http://www.globalreporting.org/NewsEventsPress/LatestNews/2010/IIRC.htm?dm_i=4J5,7O7W,IXI9U,JOLZ,1

 

As population rises from 6.8 billion today towards 9 billion by 2050, the inevitable logic of exponential growth in both population and consumption is now hitting the limits of global ecosystems and resource availability.  The immediate pressure points are energy security, climate change, biodiversity loss, water and food availability, issues which are converging rapidly in a manner never previously experienced...

See the full essay “A Full World” at: http://morethanluck.cpd.org.au/making-it-last/facing-our-limits/

Ian Dunlop
Former CEO of the AICD and senior executive of Royal Dutch Shell

Climate change will increase the risk of flooding in the UK, which could lead to dramatic rises in insurance premiums for homeowners and businesses and make some areas of the country uninsurable, the Association of British Insurers has warned.

Julia Kollewe
Wednesday 28 July 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/28/house-insurance-premiums-flooding

Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs. Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish 'best evidence yet' of rising long-term global temperatures

Juliette Jowit
The Gaurdian
28 July, 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/28/global-temperatures-2010-record

Responding to climate change and environmental sustainability issues is simply smart business. It means being confident you’ve examined the risks and seized the competitive opportunities available to create new revenue and to reduce cost.

Steve Starbuck, E&Y US
July, 2010
http://www.ey.com/US/en/Services/Specialty-Services/Climate-Change-and-Sustainability-Services/Climate_Change_Sustainability_Services_climate_change_and_sustainability