The domino effect

With governmental reward schemes in place for companies with low carbon footprints, as well as increased consumer demand for environmentally friendly products, businesses are now pushing themselves to go greener and greener

The issue of man's impact on the environment has been around for decades, but only in the last five to 10 years are we truly beginning to see change. The Kyoto agreement, first discussed in the 1990s and launched in 2005, was designed to reduce greenhouse gases and has helped pinpoint targets for environmental improvement despite the reluctance of the US to ratify the protocol. A year on, we saw Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth taking the issue of climate change to a global audience. In parallel with this, there has been a sea change in consumers' mindsets as they have become much mo...