BP Target Neutral

BP has launched its Target Neutral offering using AMEE data which allows you to calculate and off-set personal travel emissions.  Off-sets are accredited by  internationally-recognised ICROA Code of Best Practice and money goes towards a varied spread  of off-set projects http://www.bptargetneutral.com/our-projects/
https://calculatetargetneutral.bp.com/ 

CDP Launches Supplier Emissions Scoring

The Carbon Disclosure Project and FirstCarbon Solutions have launched a program to score the CDP Supply Chain program.
Environmental Leader

CCS - We shouldn't focus on the capture

Article showing that the focus on the Capture is wrong, we should be focussing on the connection, network development, and transferring and storing the captured carbon dioxide.
Utility Week

Renewable Energy as Share of Total Primary Consumption, 2010

Link to Graph and stats for 2010.  Environmental Leader

Water footprint of energy companies set to be key theme of 2012

Deloitte's 'Energy & Resource Predictions 2012' report outlines 10 key themes likely to impact the energy and resources sector over the next year.  This includes: volatility in commodity prices; new technologies in oil recovery; demergers among international oil companies; and breakthroughs in nanotechnology.

It notes that we will see a rise in the importance of water footprinting of energy companies and that "according to a recent Globescan/Circle of Blue survey, water-related themes represented the number one and number two concerns identified, with even climate change ranked sixth".
Deloitte

Global project financing hits a new peak but Asia experiences its first decrease since 2010

Global project financing volumes grew to $49.9 billion in 3Q11, a 15% increase on the $43.4 billion recorded in 2Q11 and a 50% increase on the $33.3 billion in the corresponding period last year. This rise pushed financing volumes to their highest level ever recorded.
Clean Energy Pipeline

Skills Research Energy Efficiency and MicroGeneration

The report was commissioned by the Scottish Government, in conjunction with Built Environment Sector Skills Councils and The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils (Scotland), to enhance the evidence base for energy efficiency and low carbon skills in Scotland. This complements the objectives outlined in the Energy Efficiency Action Plan ( EEAP) for Scotland in which the Scottish Government has set out a "wide-ranging programme of activity on behaviour change, household, business and public sector energy efficiency, infrastructure, skills and finance"

Scottish Government

Analysis say EU carbon costs may force refiners to relocate

Concern that EU cabon prices will make it too expensive to stay in Europe and the UK refining industry is t particular risk due to UK government plans for a carbon floor price. Reuters

Scope 3 GHG Reporting Standards Finalised

Useful article and links to Scope 3 emissions

Environmetal Leader

Scotland: sustainable communities in 2030

Scotland’s Futures Forum most recent project looks at what sustainable communities might look like, in Scotland, in 2030.
Scotland's Futures Forum

Sustainable Travel and better ways to travel

Scottish websites and movement to encourage better ways to travel.

Scottish Enterprise Business Gateway - Practical information and help for Scottish businesses
Ways 2 Work - a business led, business informed initiative to increase efficiency through better ways of working and travelling
ChooseAnotherWay - an initiative of Transport Scotland and its partners to encourage more sustainable transport choices through the implementation of travel plans.

Scottish Government's Economic Strategy

The Scottish Government published an updated version of its economic strategy on 12 September.
The Strategy is intended to ensure that central and local government and other public bodies, work collaboratively with the private, academic and third sectors, in pursuit of the Scottish Government’s purpose and economic recovery.  The document maintains the five Strategic Priorities that were set out in the original 2007 Economic Strategy:

• Supportive Business Environment;
• Learning, Skills and Well-being;
• Infrastructure Development and Place;
• Effective Government;
• Equity.

 Mr Swinney said the addition of the sixth Strategic Priority – Transition to a Low Carbon Scotland, which includes:

• A £70 million National Renewables Infrastructure Fund to help leverage private sector investment to develop the infrastructure across the country to support offshore renewables
• Positioning Scotland as a world leader in low carbon activities – a sector which is estimated to have the potential to support 130,000 jobs by 2020
• Investing in further improving the quality of Scotland’s housing stock, including initiatives to improve energy efficiency and tackle fuel poverty.

 Defra

Influencing Behaviours for Sustainability

The Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team’s first annual report highlights examples of the application of behavioural insights to policy over the last year, including energy efficiency Defra

Graham Russell, Head of the Centre of Expertise on Influencing Behaviours at Defra, explains how the new Framework for Sustainable Lifestyles provides a tool to help develop effective approaches to influencing behaviour and encouraging more sustainable lifestyles.
Defra

A Frawework for Sustainable Lifestyles - provides a tool to help develop effective approaches to influencing behaviour and encouraging more sustainable lifestyles