Top companies have climate strategies
The Fifth Estate has reported on an insightful Economist Article that surveyed 300 of the largest golbal firms. Key findings were:

• 68% of companies claimed to have made their global-warming strategy part of their core strategy, up from 48 per cent last year
• Walmart claims its environmental policy saves US$200 million a year on transport fuel alone
• Tesco aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050 and claims its eco policies are saving £150 million (US$239 million ) a year

NABERS - on the right track?
 The Fifth Estate reports that the a survey has found that the NABERS rating system is fit for purpose, but could still be improved.Chief executive officer of AIRAH Phil Wilkinson said: “The survey has really highlighted how well accepted the NABERS rating tools are and that industry really wants to be actively engaged in improving the suite of tools. “A lot of technical issues have been raised and I think we as industry need to be realistic about how quickly the items can be dealt with,” he said.

Alliance to Save Energy conference presentation
Yann Burden presented on Effective Residential Energy Demand at the A2SE conference in March 2012. The presentation is available here. Other presenters at the conference included International Energy  Agency, Department of Climate Change, Energy Saving Trust (UK) and  Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.