Climate Change Archives - Leading Green

COVID-19 drops carbon emissions by 6% – So where does the remaining 94% arise from?

Written by Ross on 29th April 2020. Posted in Blog, Climate Change, Sustainability Leadership.

Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has dropped carbon emissions levels by 6% globally. In light of this reduction, this article asks two questions. Where do the remaining 94% originate from? and what lessons can we learn in terms of sustainable development? You may remember scenes...

Responsible Business: Jeans & the Circular Economy – Cars & the Old Economy

Written by Ross on 18th July 2019. Posted in Climate Change, CSR, energy effeciency, responsible leadership, Responsible Management, sustainability.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Responsible Business Case Study This article examines a step up in responsible business leadership that is occuring in the fashion industry, comparing it with the more traditional automobile sector. Examining how one group of companies are responding to the challenge of...

air quality, automobiles, circular economy, jeans, transparency, Trump, vehicle emissions

Gesture Politics and Climate Change

Written by Ross on 11th July 2019. Posted in Climate Change, responsible leadership.

Reading Time: 2 minutes 83% of UK citizens are worried about climate change – and it now appears that Mrs May is also one of them! 69% of Americans are worried about climate change, and equally it appears that President Trump is now one of them! Are we seeing a conversion or is it another example...

Trump, UK politics

Is it time to retire ‘climate change’ for ‘climate crisis’?

Written by Ross on 19th June 2019. Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Social responsibility, Environmental Leadership, leadership, responsible leadership, Responsible Management.

Reading Time: < 1 minute I spent a lot of time reflecting on this article on Climate crisis and how the emotive language surrounding climate change and other environmental topics is being altered increasingly within media reports. In respect of the global IA climate change community, what...

climate crisis

Carbon Capture – but with a difference

Written by Ross on 23rd May 2019. Posted in Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Occidental Petroleum (Houston USA) has released plans disclosing the company’s intention to construct the world’s largest direct air capture facility in Texas oil. What makes this investment stand out to Leading Green is the fact that it will be in partnership with...

#carboncapture, #carboncycle, #carbonstorage, #climtechangeadaptation, #lowcarboneconomy

Climate Change Transition – can you see the changes yet?

Written by Ross on 13th May 2019. Posted in Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Leadership, investment, leadership.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Climate Change transition can be hard to identify within the operational investment plans within some oil & gas giants. IAIA conferences the global forum for assessment of the world’s largest infrastructure projects At the IAIA 2019 conference in Brisbane...

Climate Change adaptation, Climate Change transition

Your Approach to carbon transition may affect your Credit Score

Written by Ross on 13th May 2019. Posted in Climate Change, CSR, investment, leadership, responsible leadership, sustainability.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Dont follow other company’s blindly into climate change credit risk My company Leading Green is founded on the belief that Business leaders and organisations that integrate sustainability into their business thinking and leadership culture will benefit in the long-term...

credit score, ESG

Climate Change storytelling & the UK chip

Written by Ross on 5th February 2019. Posted in Climate Change.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Climate change is a complex subject to communicate technically to the wider population, especially whilst the direction of travel is clear, the precision of local scenarios is still vague in the minds of communities. Climate change storytelling, however, can package learning...

agriculture, farming, potato, sustainable farming

Getting Green Done ……

Written by Ross on 18th January 2019. Posted in Climate Change, CSR, leadership, sustainability.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Prior experience is a valuable commodity when ‘getting green done’ in organizations. It takes time, networks and experience to deliver your sustainability mission at times. I was amazed as a young environmental mentee lamented her recent lack of success in...

#IEMA #EMS #EHS, #lowcarboneconomy, #sustainability #business #sustainability in business #leadership #environmentalleadership, management