British Gas communities and new energy

British Gas is the biggest supplier of energy to Britain’s homes. We have over 16 million customer accounts and 9,000 engineers. As such, we are proud to take a leading role in the fight against Climate Change.

Investing in renewable energy: Centrica, our parent company, owns the largest offshore wind farm in the world and is committing over £1.5 billion to green energy, from wind through to microgeneration. Altogether, we have the lowest carbon intensity of the major suppliers.

Microgeneration: British Gas is the only company able to supply all five microgeneration technology under the Government’s Low Carbon Buildings Programme.
Energy efficiency: We remain the largest provider of energy efficiency measures, such as loft and cavity wall insulation, in the UK. We have also teamed up with other companies, such as B&Q, to promote low-cost energy efficiency products.

Green jobs: This year we opened the UK's first dedicated Green Skills Training Centre, in Tredegar in the South Wales Valleys. It will train 1,300 people a year. We also opened an Energy Academy in Leicester which will create 2,600 skilled new jobs by 2012, focusing above all in the installation of smart meters.

Behaviour change: British Gas runs Generation Green, an education programme which rewards teachers, pupils and families for environmental behaviour. Schools can collect ‘Green Leaves’, which can be which can be redeemed against a variety of useful green rewards such as botanicals kits, weather stations and solar photovoltaic kits. Over 9000 schools are now members. British Gas has also set up a Green Streets programme, encouraging 14 communities to bid for £100,000 each to invest in innovative energy projects throughout Great Britain.

British Gas is committed to making our customers' homes the greenest in Europe. We are delighted to sponsor Climate Clinic in the run up to Copenhagen.

Capgemini

At Capgemini, we take sustainability seriously and are applying our business transformation skills to navigate our own journey towards becoming a more sustainable business. Sustainability in Capgemini is about reducing our impact on the environment, optimising the contribution we make to the communities we operate in, and engaging effectively with our people. It’s about what we do today – helping to shape our business environment and ensuring our long-term success.

As such we recognise that sustainability is not just about what we do within Capgemini. It’s also about how we contribute to, and help to shape, the conversation with other organisations. We help our clients meet their own sustainability challenges and objectives by leveraging our own capabilities. We also engage with industry forums, suppliers and non-governmental organisations to share experiences and insights. We are delighted to sponsor Climate Clinic in the run up to the UN’s 15th Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

“Climate Change is arguably one of the biggest threats to mankind, and organisations like Capgemini have a responsibility to reduce their impact on the environment. We can also leverage our capabilities to enable our clients to meet their own sustainability challenges and objectives”.

— Christine Hodgson, CEO Technology Services North West Europe and Chair of Capgemini UK’s Sustainability Board

The Co-operative

'We are proud to be a lead sponsor of the Climate Clinic for the third year in a row.

The Co-operative Group is one of the largest consumer co-operatives in the world with over 3 million members, over 100,000 employees and over 4,500 trading outlets throughout the UK. We provide food retail services, pharmacy, financial services, travel, farming and legal services amongst our family of businesses. Across the Group we’re working to reduce our impact on the environment and work in partnership with charities, not for profit groups and other businesses.

We have arguably done as much as any other business to tackle our contribution to climate change, in terms of our operations, products and services, and our influencing activities. 98% of our electricity comes from renewable sources and we have an active windfarm development programme. The Co-operative Insurance Tower in Manchester is the largest solar array in the UK with over 7000 PV panels and we have committed £2 million to help install solar panels, small wind turbines and biomass boilers in schools across the UK as part of our Green Energy for Schools project.

On top of this, we aim to play a leading role in helping to shape and progress Climate Change policy. For example, 22,000 of The Co-operative Bank’s customers wrote to their MP as part of the Big Ask campaign calling for a greater reduction in carbon emission targets in the Climate Change Bill. This year, our Toxic Fuels campaign in partnership with WWF-UK, aims to raise awareness of the emerging global trend to extract oil from unconventional fuels, such as tar sands and shale oil. Such exploitation threatens global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of climate change and risks local ecological disaster.

Being part of the Climate Clinic helps us to build upon this work and is a great fit with our ethics, values and principles.'

— Chris Shearlock, Sustainable Development Manager.

eaga

eaga are happy to be sponsors of the Climate Clinic. We have sponsored this event in the past and have found that it is an ideal way to highlight energy related matters. eaga is a co-owned green support services company, the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions and an established deliverer of a range of outsourced programmes, products and services that promote social and environmental justice. eaga’s broad customer base includes central Government, energy suppliers, the BBC and a significant number of local authorities. In serving this customer base, we devise, develop and deliver products and solutions that help households and families deal with many different aspects of social and environmental change.

Founded in 1990, eaga has installed energy efficiency measures in more than 5 million households across the UK. eaga currently deliver the Warm Front Scheme across England, which is the Government’s main policy instrument for tackling fuel poverty in vulnerable households. The Scheme has assisted more than 1.7m households since its inception in 2000, saving an average of 250,000 tonnes of CO2 in the last year alone and saving households an average of £300 per year off their energy bills.

— Anne Toms, Government Affairs Manager, eaga plc

The Fairtrade Foundation is pleased to support the Climate Clinic in their efforts to take urgent action on climate change. Two billion people – a third of humanity – still survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they also face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change. By buying products with the FAIRTRADE Mark shoppers can be assured that disadvantaged producers and workers in developing countries receive a fair and stable price for their products which covers the costs of sustainable production and a Fairtrade premium for investment in economic, social and environmental projects.

“We have planted trees and reduced the amount of pesticides we use by 80% in the last ten years. We’ve used the Fairtrade premium to buy environmentally friendly ovens to dry our coffee. These are powered by coffee skins and macadamia nut shells, which mean we no longer need to cut up to 50 acres of forest every year.

Fairtrade has helped us to improve our environmental protection. Fairtrade isn’t just about helping farmers in poor countries; by helping to protect forests, fields and rivers it helps us all to respond to climate change. We have had to change the way we grow and process coffee to meet Fairtrade standards, and have learnt about more sustainable production methods this way"

— Gerardo Camacho, Coffee Farmer, Coocafe, Costa Rica

The Fairtrade system includes environmental standards as part of producer certification and require producers to work to protect the natural environment. Producers are encouraged to minimise the use of energy, especially energy from non-renewable sources. By choosing Fairtrade products, you can help producers preserve their own environment as well as have a positive social benefit in their community.

The Independent

Music at Northbrook are happy to be supporting the Climate Clinic. The music department is one of the largest and most diverse in the south of England with approximately 300 students. We have students aged from 14 upwards on courses from BTEC IF up to honours degree. Our courses cover music performance, DJ skills, composition for film and media, business, production and music technology. As an industry that traditionally is very energy hungry we need to be responsible and aware of how we improve matters for future generations.

Stylorouge are proud to be sponsors of Climate Clinic.
We are a creative consultancy based in London and Kent, working across all popular media. For most of our 27 years in business we have specialized in the music and entertainment industries, creating packaging, print design, marketing, web design, photography and video programming for all the major music companies, including Universal, SonyBMG, Warner Music and EMI. Among many others, we have art directed major visual campaigns and produced promo videos for Blur, The Cure, Tears For Fears, Squeeze, Simple Minds, George Michael, Rolling Stones, David Gilmour, Katie Melua, Enya, The Corrs, Morrissey and David Bowie.
Although we have a great regard for music and the ways in which it can heal and enhance people's lives, we have increasingly turned our attentions in recent years to issues of greater importance, among them our environment.
We worked closely with Climate Clinic in their inaugural year 2006, developing a brand identity, website and campaign material, and are delighted to have continued our relationship during the subsequent two years. Arresting climate change is the biggest priority in all our lives, and we wholeheartedly support the contributing organizations that comprise Climate Clinic in their endeavours towards the carefully controlled achievement of this goal.
Stylorouge have also worked for Greenpeace and are sponsors of Cancer Research UK, currently in our fourth year of providing artwork for their annual Sound & Vision auction event.

— Rob O'Connor, Director