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Competitive Advantage from Climate Change

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Congratulations to Allan Jenkins of ISIS Security for scooping the FSB Oxfordshire Climate Change Innovation Award 2009.  Allan's innovation, CANUTE, an early warning flood detector, enables businesses and householders to receive text messages to their mobile phones if water levels in storm drains close to their properties reach dangerous levels.

More information on Canute can be obtained from http://www.flooding-early-warning.co.uk/

Allan received £1,500 in cash from the Federation of Small Businesses and a trophy supported by Ems2.

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Committed?

The Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory climate change and energy saving scheme for the UK aimed at helping to achieve the goals set in the climate change Act of 2008.

Large public and private sector organisations across the UK will be legally bound to it such as supermarkets, water companies, banks, local authorities (including state funded schools) and all central government departments. Inclusion is based on the organisation's half hourly electricity usage.

Find out if your business is affected.

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Green shoots?

Does the recession affect our opportunities with climate change business innovation?

Here are some facts 

- you decide.

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Travel plans

Does your business have one?

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Top Tips Minimize
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Lots of organisations provide help free of charge; here are some:

DEFRA/Business link Top 10 Tips

Green grants information

Other organisations who can help

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Climate Change in The Daily Telegraph

Met Office report: global warming evidence is 'unmistakable'
A new climate change report has provided the "greatest evidence we have ever had" that the world is warming.

Energy revolution could put bills up by a third
Householders face a £300-a-year rise in gas and electricity bills and cuts in the energy they use to hit climate change targets.

Countryside has been 'overlooked' amid climate change battle
Important issues affecting the countryside have been overlooked because of the focus on the problems of climate change, campaigners have said.

Chris Huhne to announce increase in wind turbines
Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, will this week pave the way for a controversial increase in wind turbines in a bid to protect Britain from a looming energy crisis.

Desperate days for the warmists
Warmists may be winning the big grants, but they're not winning the argument, says Christopher Booker

Malaysia closes diving reefs to save coral
Several world-famous diving sites shut to save the coral.

Heat wave in Moscow and other parts of Russia
Dozens of Russians, many drunk, have drowned cooling off in the water.

Turtle doves disappearing from the countryside
Turtle doves are disappearing from the countryside because of intensive farming, conservationists fear.

Farm payments agency still wasting taxpayers' money
The Government agency in charge of handing out cash to farmers spends more than £1,000 processing each claim, according to a damning new report.

British meat and dairy is destroying rainforests
Huge swathes of rainforest are being destroyed every year to grow animal feed for British factory farms, according to new research.

World on course for hottest year since 1880
The world is on course for the hottest year since records began in 1880 after record-breaking temperatures in four of the first six months of the year, according to meteorologists.

Britain at risk of being left behind in low carbon future
Britain is at risk of being left behind in the race to develop green energy because of the failure to invest in new technologies, Government advisers have warned.

Hundreds face fines for killing squirrels
Hundreds of people face prosecution for killing pests in their back garden after a landmark legal ruling that saw a man fined more than £1,500 for killing a squirrel.

Fears for road safety as lights switched off on motorway
Motorway lights are being switched off at midnight across the country, raising safety concerns.

Kestrel numbers fall
Kestrel numbers down in latest survey

Britain's 'litter epidemic' costs almost £1bn every year
Screw cap wine blamed for loss of forest in new campaign to revive traditional cork

Photos show dramatic shrinking of Mount Everest glaciers
Glaciers on Mount Everest are shrinking, according to startling new photographs.

Acidic oceans: fish lose ability to smell danger
Fish face losing their ability to smell danger as the oceans grow more acidic, new research has revealed.

Ian McEwan says Americans are 'profoundly bored' by climate change
Americans are "profoundly bored" with the notion of climate change, according to the writer Ian McEwan, whose latest novel has been poorly received in the US.

Screw cap wine blamed for loss of forest in new campaign to revive traditional cork
Screw cap wine blamed for loss of forest in new campaign to revive traditional cork
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About ems2

Our mission is to make a difference by stimulating business growth relating to Climate Change.

There is a real chance to generate wealth whilst also reducing the emissions that cause climate change or helping to adapt to its effects.

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Retail savings Minimize

Retail loss prevention experts, The ORIS Group, are growing their consulting offerings.  Retail carbon footprinting can bring their clients undiscovered savings. More...

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Help adapt and grow Minimize

We provide some help for business to prepare for floods.

How can you grow your business by helping your customers adapt to extreme weather conditions?

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The Prince and the Frog - help save the carbon-busting rainforests

The Guardian on 2 degree rise

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Climate Row Minimize
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If, like us, you are concerned about the recent news following leaked emails from the University of East Anglia on climate change research, you may be interested in some information "from the horse's mouth".  If you go to the university's website, a statement was posted - see below - which certainly helps gain some perspective on the issue.

Here is a snippet of two salient points, made by the head of the Unit, followed by a link to the whole statement.

Extract of statement from Professor Phil Jones, Head of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia;

"...In the frenzy of the past few days, the most vital issue is being overshadowed: we face enormous challenges ahead if we are to continue to live on this planet.

One has to wonder if it is a coincidence that thie email correspondence has been stolen and published at this time.  This may be a concerted attempt to put a question mark over the science of climate chance in the run-up to the Copenhagen talks.

That the world is warming is based on a range of sources: not only temperature records but other indicators such as sea level rise, glacier retreat and less Arctic sea ice.

Our global temperature series tallies with those of other, completely independeny groups of scientists working for NASA and the National Climate Data Center in the United States, among others.  Even if you were to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results.  The facts speak for themselves, there is no need for anyone to manipulate them..."

Full statement here: https://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/homepagenews/CRUupdate

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Get the edge

We work with business leaders to help them identify a new approach for a competitive edge in the emerging low carbon economy.

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Sixth form heroes Minimize

YE company POW wins Ems2 climate change award in Reading YE finals.  More...

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Climate Change from bbc.co.uk

G8 aims to halve greenhouse gases
World leaders at the G8 summit aim to set a target to halve carbon emissions by 2050 in an effort to tackle global warming.

Mayor quashes £25 C-charge hike
London Mayor Boris Johnson quashes the proposed rise in congestion charge for vehicles deemed high polluters.

UK to slow expansion of biofuels
The UK is to cut the rate of growth of biofuels because of "increasing questions" over their impact.

Australia 'needs carbon trading'
An Australian government advisor calls for a national emissions trading scheme to combat global warming.

Aviation impacts 'hotly disputed'
Green advisers tell the government airport expansion should be suspended pending an inquiry.

US city to charge polluting firms
The US city of San Francisco passes new rules requiring businesses to pay for the amount of CO2 they emit.

Next decade 'may see no warming'
Global temperatures may not rise for 10 years as natural cooling masks greenhouse warming, research suggests.

Slowing the biofuel bonanza
The Gallagher Review pours caution on the pace of biofuel development.

Japan waits on US for CO2 targets
Japan says it will not negotiate on CO2 emissions until it sees what the new US president offers on climate change.

Time to leave the comfort zone
Civic leaders must be willing to make tough choices if we are going to live in green cities.

No impact from Energy Saving Day
The UK's first Energy Saving Day ends with no discernible reduction in the country's electricity consumption.

Church to step up climate fight
Leaders of the influential US Southern Baptists decide climate change is real and they should fight it.

Tuvalu struggles to hold back tide
The nine tiny South Pacific islands of Tuvalu only just break the surface of the ocean - but for how much longer?

In depth graphical guide to climate change
Find out how the greenhouse effect works, and more...

Can America Go Green?
BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter.

Q&A: Climate change
The BBC News website looks at the rapid human-induced warming that scientists believe the planet is facing.

Global energy guide


Q&A: The Carbon Trade
The Carbon trade

IPCC report: In graphics
Human activity is "very likely" to be the cause for Climate change, climate scientists have concluded.

Climate costs: The global picture
BBC correspondents give views on climate change from around the world, in the wake of a UK government report warning of dire costs.

UK and climate change


Earth - melting in the heat?
Are the poles melting? Are mountain glaciers disappearing? We take the temperature of the planet's ice.

Frontline global warming reports


Fuelling the Future


Newsnight's Ethical Man


Planet Earth Under Threat


Decide where the UK's energy comes from


Action Network: Nuclear Power
Ideas on how to improve your neighbourhood

How you can save energy
How to save money and the environment by turning off appliances instead of putting them on stand-by.

How to upgrade your house


Carbon calculator
A simple approach to determining your contribution to climate change.

Green home wish 'not granted'
Reader Nedira Yakir says her dream of making her house eco-friendly was frustrated by "red tape and apathy".
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Oxfordshire Climate Change Roadshow
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The the FSB's  roadshow Make Money from Climate Change ran from April until October 2009 across Oxfordshire and was organised by Ems2.  Small businesses were inspired by local case studies, an expert panel and special speakers Amey.

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How did it go

Roadshow Review, May 2009

Roadshow Review, June 2009

Roadshow Review, July 2009

Roadshow Review, August 2009

Roadshow Review, Autumn 2009

Dowload Roadshow presentations (updated monthly with new ones - you need to register and logon for this)

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