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Dublin: 17.03.2010 21:06 PM
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Risks & Opportunities for Business: Terence O'Rourke, Managing Partner, KPMG Ireland, on climate change issues rising up the board agenda

 

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Eamon Ryan

Comparative advantage

As a Green Party member, and Minister of a department that spans several of the keys areas for the creation of any so-called 'green economy', Eamon Ryan TD has strong views on Ireland's sustainable recovery. He spoke to Ann O'Dea. more...

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Copenhagen challenge

As the leaders of the world sit down together at the long-anticipated United Nations Copenhagen climate-change talks, Ann O'Dea looks at some of the complexities involved in getting even a framework agreement in place. more...

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Opportunities and risks

There is a growing business culture where environmental issues are seen by the entire board as being fundamental to future viability and profitability, Terence O'Rourke, managing partner, KPMG, tells Ann O'Dea. more...

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Corporate leadership

Last year, the UK became the first country in the world to create a legally binding long-term framework to cut carbon emissions when it passed its Climate Change Act, 2008. Ireland should take similar action, Charles Butterworth of the Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change tells Grainne Rothery. more...

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Keeping score

As investors take a growing interest in the environmental performance of leading firms, 2009 saw Irish companies invited to participate for the first time in the global Carbon Disclosure Project. Ann O'Dea talks to the director of CDP Ireland, Dick Budden. more...

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People power

In the Ireland of the coming years, every job will be a green job, says Sustainable Energy Ireland CEO Professor Owen Lewis and, he tells John Kennedy, we have the skills to create and fill them. more...

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A green recovery

Companies that put their environmental strategies on hold are missing out on considerable opportunities, both for short-term gains and long-term growth, author of Green Recovery and Harvard professor Andrew Winston tells Grainne Rothery. more...

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Feeding the green monster


As HSBC research estimates that revenues from climate-related businesses could exceed US$2trn by 2020, John Kennedy looks at the green-tech companies in Ireland that could help make us the clean-tech Silicon Valley of Europe. more...

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An energy revolution

Dr Robert K Dixon, leader of the Climate Change and Chemicals Team of the US Government's Global Environment Facility, says that, however unpopular, nuclear energy may have to form part of the energy mix for a cleaner future. more...

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