SSuussttaaiinnaabbiilliittyy FFoorruumm @@ IIIIMMLL August 2015 Volume IV Issue 5 Centre for Business Sustainability, IIM Lucknow Prabandh Nagar, Off. Sitapur Road, Lucknow- 226013 which have been the worst hit with air pollution. Hebei province, where seven E-mail:
[email protected] Phone: +91 522 2736987, +91 2736989 of China’s smoggiest cities are located, has been ordered to scrap 660,000 cars that don’t meet emission standards. Up to 333,000 will be taken off the Business Sustainability News International decarbonising its energy use. With Crossrail and Crossrail 2 on the horizon, We can make a greener, more liveable TfL is set to become an even bigger user of electricity. It needs to work with London’s sustainable businesses to develop new sources of local power that London and expand Heathrow create jobs and apprenticeships for Londoners and help keep more of the London can still become a world-leading green city with a third runway at money we spend on energy in Londoner’s pockets, rather than in the pockets Heathrow as long as it backs solar roofs, electric cars and a bigger congestion of the big six energy providers. zone London has huge untapped potential for generating solar power. I want the Gareth Thomas, MP for Harrow West and a London mayoral candidate for the solar industry to see London as one of its key hubs – leading the debate in Labour Party Britain, but increasingly across Europe on how the energy market can be The next mayor of decentralised, opened up to smaller businesses, and where social enterprises London needs to be and community energy can flourish alongside more traditional businesses.