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ESA sustainability push after Copenhagen Carbon Cop-out
21.12.2009
Following the failure of the Copenhagen Summit to agree binding limits on emissions, ESA has pledged to push further and harder on its work in this area.
Dirk Hazell, ESA’s Chief Executive, commented:
"After months of emitting bombast and millions of global warming air miles, world governments failed to agree binding limits on emissions in Copenhagen. While they emitted hot air, ESA's private sector Members - in common with other business sectors - acted to cool emissions."
"Between 1990-2006, ESA's Members have helped cut emissions associated with waste management by 58% which compares to 16% for the UK as a whole. In 2009, our Members agreed to be bound by a methodology for measuring carbon footprint that we believe will become a World standard and which will promote further carbon savings."
"In 2010, we will publish the first results of this new tool and we will work with other sectors in the UK and abroad to secure wider, measurable and transparent emission reductions."
"Recycling, for example, has significant potential to cut carbon emissions: big business often has high recycling rates and we have quintupled household recycling over the last decade, so we are well on the way to become a Recycling Society. Our next task is to work with the Government and Devolved Administrations to ensure that many more of Britain's smaller businesses rapidly and successfully switch to higher recycling, encouraged by the Landfill Tax which will soon hit £72 per tonne."
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ESA is the UK’s sectoral trade association for waste and secondary resource management, an industry accounting for 0.8% GDP. For further details please visit www.esauk.org
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