Join The 10:10 Campaign
A new climate change campaign has just been launched and it has the support of celebrities and big businesses, reports telegraph.co.uk. The 10:10 campaign is asking everyone to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.
The 10:10 campaign wants everyone to reduce their emissions by just changing the way they live their life slightly. For example, they suggest changes such as walking or cycling to work, or only taking one flight a year.
Well known names already signed up to the campaign include Colin Firth, Delia Smith and Zac Goldsmith. But the campaign is also aiming to get the support of businesses and the public sector and organisations already involved include Tottenham Hotspur, NHS Trusts and the Women’s Institute.
One of the UK’s leading energy companies is helping its customers to join the pledge and cut 10% off their energy use in 2010. E.ON is trying to get customers to sign up to their free Online Energy Tracker. Once they’ve joined, householders and small businesses will be supported with a range of energy saving tools to help them understand their energy use and assess their monthly consumption to help them reach their target of a 10% drop in energy use by 2010.
In addition, E.ON is giving away 30,000 free PowerDowns to the first of its customers who pledge to take part in the 10:10 challenge. Customers who sign up to the campaign and use E.ON’s Online Energy Tracker will receive exclusive energy saving offers and advice on reducing energy consumption throughout 2010.
The 10:10 campaign was inspired by the film The Age of Stupid which warned what would happen if climate change wasn’t tackled. The director of the film is also the founder of the 10:10 campaign, Fanny Armstrong. She said the campaign aims to recruit “every person, every school, every business, every hospital…and then…demand that the Government follows suit”.
If everyone in the UK reduced their emissions by 10% it would save 85 million tonnes of CO2.
Ed Miliband the Energy Minister is backing the 10:10 campaign but the Head of Climate Change at Friends of the Earth said the Government and energy companies could do much more to help people cut their energy use by 10%. He suggested this could be done by subsidising people insulating their homes and ensuring people have easier access to public transport.
Businessgreen.com says it could be difficult for businesses to achieve a 10% cut in their energy use especially if they have already started to introduce energy saving measures. Consequently, businesses signing up to the 10:10 pledge will aim to cut their emissions by 10% during 2010 but they will be regarded as successful if they have reduced emissions by 3% during the year. They will also be able to choose the starting date for the emissions reduction so that it stays in line with their financial year. However, the reduction will be worked out in relation to their total revenue so that if their business grows and emissions increase as a result this is taken into consideration. Likewise, if their business contracts and emissions fall as a result this will also be taken into consideration.
For further information on joining the campaign see the links below.
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2248778/why-means-businesses