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| Business & Innovation |
| Simon Guy, Group Chair, Head
of Marketing BRE |
| EIC’s
Business & Innovation Working Group highlights the innovation needs of the environmental
technology sector and works with Government and other stakeholders to encourage
policies that stimulate the commercialisation of technology and encourage business
growth... |
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| Carbon Trading |
| Pedro
Moura Costa, Group Chair, Chief Operating Officer and President of EcoSecurities |
These
are exciting times for the EIC’s Carbon Trading Working Group (CTWG). In the last
six months much has happened in the UK and Europe to drive forwards progress on
climate change. The UK has seen the publication of the Stern Report synthesising
the economic case for action on climate change into a single thorough and persuasive
format, closely followed by the publication of the UK draft Climate Change Bill
with an ambitious 60 per cent emissions reduction target out to 2050... |
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| Climate
Change |
| Chris Stubbs,
Group Chair, Divisional Managing Director WSP Energy |
| Climate
change is widely accepted as one of the greatest threats we face, and as we have
seen over the last year, the political establishment has finally started to take
this threat seriously. There is a broad consensus that energy efficiency is a
key tool and the Government has rightly identified demand reduction as the most
effective approach to tackling climate change... |
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| Contaminated
Land | [
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| Alistair Kean,
Group Chair, Environmental Director IKM Consulting |
The
EIC Contaminated Land Working Group has had another extremely busy year. Although
some agenda items may seem very familiar to the 180 member companies in the group,
real progress has been made in a number of areas... |
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| Environmental
Laboratories |
| Cliff Billings,
Group Chair, Quality Director Severn Trent Laboratories |
| The
focus of the Group is to promote the national and international competitiveness
of the member companies who provide sampling, laboratory, field-testing and associated
services to clients in support of pollution control and prevention, remediation
and sustainable development... |
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| Industrial
Air Pollution Control |
| William
Averdieck, Group Chair, Managing Director PCME Ltd |
The
UK has a strong record in industrial air pollution control, underpinned by effective,
forward looking, pragmatic legislation and a strong supply industry, working in
partnership with industrial operators... |
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| International
Business |
| Paul Rubens,
Group Chair Managing Director, Casella Measurement |
| EIC’s
International Business Working Group represents companies carrying out international
business across most sectors of the environmental technology and services industry
including consultants, training providers, technology firms and equipment manufacturers.
The environmental goods and services industry is worth US$51.5bn per year... |
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| Oil
& Marine Pollution Control | [
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| Simon Rickaby,
Group Chair, Managing Director DV Howells Ltd |
| The
Oil & Marine Pollution Control Working Group is working towards ensuring the sustainable
development of the UK and international marine environment through removing the
barriers to UK companies that can provide oil spill pollution prevention and control
technologies and services to both the onshore and offshore environment... |
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| Renewable
Transport Fuels |
| William
Averdieck, Group Chair, Managing Director PCME Ltd |
| The
EIC Renewable Transport Fuels (RTF) Group is now in its third year of operation
and has seen its membership and activities grow significantly in the last 12 months.
The Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) has once again been a major focus
of the Group’s work... |
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| Scottish
Contaminated Land |
| Alistair
Kean, Group Chair, Environmental Director IKM Consulting |
| During
the Remediation Licensing Task Force it became apparent that Scottish Legislation
was likely to diverge significantly from that in England and Wales. EIC discussions
with the Scottish Executive and SEPA revealed that Scotland was likely to adopt
a licensing system for on-site remediation that could be entirely incompatible
with the new Mobile Treatment Licence system South of the Border... |
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| Sustainable
Development & Management |
| Ken
Smith, Group Chair, Director Bureau Veritas |
| Sustainable
development and its management continue to move up the agenda as the over-arching
theme through which the various forms of regulation and best practice shown by
EIC members link together. The Group’s aim, through the focus on key work areas,
is to lobby Government on regulation and voluntary ‘codes’, find synergies with
other organisations and increase the knowledge of members to move towards a more
sustainable and competitive economy... |
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| Transport
Pollution Control | [
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| Mike Galey,
Group Chair, Director of Marketing Eminox Ltd |
| The
EIC’s Transport Working Group represents organisations actively involved in creating
and marketing solutions that help reduce the environmental impact of transport.
Since its inception in 1996, the Group has maintained an ongoing and active dialogue
with Government on key issues related to transport and environmental policy... |
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| Waste
Resources Management |
| Jonathon
Davies, Group Chair, Group Chairman, Commercial Director Resource Management,
Enviros Consulting Ltd |
EIC’s
Waste Resources Management Working Group represents Members’ interests across
the whole waste and resource sequence, from generation, minimisation and recycling,
to treatment for re-use or disposal. Achievement of the far-reaching changes in
the Government’s Waste Implementation Programme (WIP) requires the integration
of all available waste management techniques... |
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| Water
Pollution Control |
| Chris
Hoggart, Group Chair, Business Unit Director, Natural and Environment MWH |
The
Water Pollution Control Working Group is working towards ensuring the sustainable
development of the UK and water environment, through tackling the barriers to
UK companies that can provide water pollution prevention and control technologies
and services. Its Members consist of representatives from consultancies, technology
providers, contractors, pollution monitoring organisations, laboratories, academic
institutions, and associated industries... |
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