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An Essential EIC Conference

The Climate Change Bill: Implications for Business

An analysis of the Government's range of climate change policies


Thursday 24th April 2008
Cavendish Conference Centre, London W1




Climate change is widely accepted to be the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. In a recent speech at the Foreign Press Association in London, Gordon Brown pledged to put the UK at the forefront of the fight against climate change and stressed the importance of building a global low carbon economy. He stated

 

'Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge.'

 

The Climate Change Bill – the world’s first national statutory framework for cutting carbon dioxide emissions – will put the UK firmly on course to a low carbon future. The Government is already taking forward a wide range of policies, impacting on all sectors of the economy, to achieve the targets in the Bill.

 

It is crucial, therefore, that all companies understand these policies and the impact they will have on their business.

 

EIC has, therefore, brought together a unique line up of the top policy makers, regulators and business leaders to analyse climate change policy and how business strategies need to adapt to succeed as part of a low carbon economy.

 

Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for Environment, will give the keynote speech.

 

Other speakers include: Peter Ainsworth MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment; Gert Jan Koopman, Director of Industrial Policy and Economic Reform, European Commission; Richard McCarthy, Director General DCLG; Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive of BT and Chair of CBI Climate Change Taskforce; and Tom Delay, Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust.

 

EIC Members, NGOs, Public Sector and Academics - £395
Non EIC Members - £595