Apologies for cross postings.
7. SUSTAINABILITY LEARNING NETWORKS (SLNs) INVITE
PARTICIPANTS
A University of Cambridge Advanced Diploma in Sustainability 3
short workshops over 6 months, plus individual and collaborative
projects in a practical business programme for mid career and fast
track managers.
The SLNs programme is due to start in May for its fifth year.
Joining the SLNs programme will enable you to review your
fundamental assumptions and help you get to grips with
sustainable development and its implications for successful
business practice. Interactive workshops and work-based projects
form the core of this programme where you will encounter, debate
and evaluate business issues and strategies, hear leading experts
and practitioners in sustainability, and learn collaboratively with your
peers from other companies and sectors.
* Explore business opportunities and management techniques
* Investigate challenges and examples of best practice
* Evaluate a range of conceptual and practical tools
* Develop a sustainability strategy for your organisation
* Become a champion of sustainable development within your
organisation
SLNs is a joint initiative of the University of Cambridge Programme
for Industry and Forum for the Future. For further details contact Becky
Simpson at the Cambridge Programme for Industry Tel. +44 (0)1223 342105
[log in to unmask] Or visit the website at
http://www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/slns/
2. GOVERNMENT’S 3RD ANNUAL REPORT ON SD
Achieving a Better Quality of Life, the Government’s 3rd annual
report on sustainable development in the UK, was published
yesterday 24 February. This report, the third in the series, sets out
progress made in 2002. In addition to bringing together the latest
data available up to the end of 2002 on the 15 headline indicators
which comprise the 'quality of life barometer' and highlighting the
main strategic developments in 2002, it also contains a wide range
of case studies showing some of the cross-cutting action being
carried out across the UK to further sustainable development.
For report see: {HYPERLINK "http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/ar2002/index.htm"}http://www.sustainable-
development.gov.uk/ar2002/index.htm.
For press release see:
{ HYPERLINK http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2003/030224a.htm }http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2003/030224a.htm
1. MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL SPEECH BY PM
Tony Blair calls for 'Concerted international effort' to fight climate
change
Full text of yesterday’s speech by PM
{ HYPERLINK http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3073.asp }http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3073.asp
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dissemination service for SDR-Network members. You can make
use of this service by posting details of forthcoming events, funding
opportunities, job vacancies, research outputs, policy
developments, consultations, etc to SDR-Network Coordinator,
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