Aldersgate Group

Green Monday's next event will discuss Corporate Cleantech: how big business is using clean technologies. 

Jon Ashford (Head of Energy and Sustainability, Sainsburys) and Dr Martin Blake (Head of Sustainability, Royal Mail) will reflect on the full range of clean technologies they have installed, are installing and plan to install in the short, medium and long term, from refrigeration to wind turbines.

Rob Wylie (Co-founder and Partner, WHEB Ventures) will give a wider perspective and reflect on the emerging technologies, the growing maturity of more established technologies, the areas of serious uncertainty (not backing the betamax technologies), what corporations are using, the business cases for installing/deploying these technologies and how they might work better with the technology companies.

For more information and to book a place, visit the Green Mondays website.

Are the emergency Budget and coalition agreement a robust platform to drive a radical low carbon and resource efficient transition?

Two days after the emergency Budget, the Aldersgate Group is bringing together a forum of senior stakeholders to discuss whether the new Government is on track to deliver the recommendations set out in the Aldersgate Groupʼs latest report Accelerating the Transition.

Join business executives, investors, parliamentarians, academics, journalists and key decision makers to analyse and debate the latest policy developments of the new Government.

This event is supported by Herbert Smith.

Addressing long-term environmental challenges is arguably just as critical to economic competitiveness as reducing the budget deficit. This event launched a new Aldersgate Group report that sets out recommendations for the first 100 days of the next Government. How can the new parliament accelerate the economic benefits of the transition to a low carbon and resource efficient economy?

In the final Budget before the next General Election, what are the key green fiscal initiatives which should be included and how should the next administration smooth the transition to the low carbon economy? Policies such as the Green Investment Bank, fiscal stimulus and green taxation have been widely debated but how quickly can they be implemented?

What would a resource efficient economy look like and what public policies would be required to transition to such an economy? This event debated these questions and launched a new report by the Aldersgate Group that describes the possible features of a resource efficient economy, by considering three economic sectors: food, water and materials.

To read the full report, visit: http://www.aldersgategroup.org.uk/reports

The outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will have major implications for the domestic economy. Corporate leaders, investors, Parliamentarians and others debated opportunities for UK businesses and the latest developments towards a legally binding international treaty.

Greg Clark MP, Lord Young and others discussed the UK low carbon skills gap. 

Capital must flow into the low carbon sector at unprecedented scale and speed if legally binding carbon budgets are to be met in the UK. This reception launched a new report by the Aldersgate Group which presents key findings from high level roundtables with representatives from the City.

This joint event with the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group debated recent carbon reporting guidance which has been launched by Defra, the CBI and Carbon Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB).

The Aldersgate Group launched a new report entitled Green Foundations 2009 and debated the challenges and opportunities for the sustainability agenda in light of the current financial crisis and looming economic recession.

A joint debate with the All Party Urban Development Group on the current regulatory and fiscal environment for green buildings.