Making sustainability pay
Following last year's launch of sustainability guidelines by the Engineering Council, Steed Webzell takes a look at today's key issues and responsibilities
What lies beneath
Presentations at a recent seminar revealed the enormity of the tasks to be addressed if carbon capture and sequestration is ever to become a reality.
Near zero emissions
With the obvious exception of the global economic crisis and its insidious infection now of the ?real economy', recent months, and indeed years, have seen no greater issue than climate change. Governments and organisations around the world have pledged radical reductions in emissions - most recently with Gordon Brown's insisting that the UK's target for CO2 reduction must be 80% by 2050. In short, interest in energy efficiency, alternative generation and carbon capture has never been greater.