To date, the following companies have already committed their support:
Associate Sponsor
Energy Saving Trust
The Energy Saving Trust is one of the UK's leading organisations set up to address the damaging effects of climate change. We aim to cut carbon dioxide emissions - the main greenhouse gas causing climate change - by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy. The Energy Saving Trust is an independent, non-profit making organisation and acts as a bridge from government to consumers, trade, businesses, local authorities and the energy market. We provide impartial information and advice and have a network of advice centres in the UK specifically designed to help consumers take action to save energy.
www.est.org.uk
Category Sponsor
At ASDA we are continually reducing the amount of energy we use to get products on our shelves: we believe that more efficient distribution is cheaper and better for the environment and for local communities.
Around half of the carbon created by the food industry comes from transport – we are chairing the food industry group on transport and expect to report our findings and next steps by the middle of this year. In fact we aim to reduce our fleet’s carbon emissions by a factor of 20% by 2012.
To ease our congested road networks we have pioneered two exciting initiatives: we have taken 4.5m miles off the roads each year by moving our freight to rail, and a further 2.5 million road miles will be saved each year by a new £20m Teesport depot. This means we can ship 70% of ASDA’s non-food imports direct to the north rather than moving them by road from Felixstowe.
We are currently operating 50 Scania 420 bhp trucks with automatic gearboxes from our Bedford distribution centre. We are seeing a fuel efficiency benefit of between 1-2% and have committed to trialling a further 25 auto units this year. If rolled out to our entire fleet this would save more than 1m litres of diesel every year. In addition, we have purchased a new fleet of double-deck trailers which will take out 2m road miles per year.
Our growing range of locally sourced products supported by our 10 local sourcing hubs, means fewer transport miles and results in more interesting products whilst providing real support for local communities and producers. We are proud of the fact that 90% of our food products that can be sourced in the UK are sourced in the UK, amounting to approximately 4,000 products from 400 small and micro businesses.
www.asda.co.uk
Transport for London has a major role to play in delivering the Mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan and reducing the Capital’s CO2 emissions. Transport, excluding aviation, accounts for around 22 per cent of the total CO2 emissions in London. Our top priority is to reduce emissions from car and freight traffic as these represent nearly three quarters of emissions in this sector. We aim to reduce the capital’s carbon emissions by promoting sustainable transport, operating vehicles more efficiently, promoting low carbon vehicles and fuels, and introducing carbon pricing for transport.
Transport for London is sponsoring the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s "Cars NOT Carbon" Eco-driving category to raise the profile of efficient driving techniques, which can reduce fuel use by five to ten per cent.
For more information about the Mayor's Climate Change Action Plan visit the London city website.
Media Partners
Brand Republic
Brand Republic is the place to find all about the UK marketing, media and communications industries.
It is the market-leading web site for the online advertising, marketing, media and PR sectors.
Publishing online since 2001, it has a completely new look and feel, and a whole host of new features and content, the site is also the online home for the leading marcomms titles and brands in business publishing, including Campaign, Marketing, Media Week, Revolution, Marketing Direct, Direct Response and Promotions & Incentives.
That's not all. Brand Republic makes the most of the unique properties of the internet to produce exclusive content from its own award-winning editorial team, as well as a series of exclusive content, research and information partners. Video and audio content is a feature of the site which shows the latest television and advertising creative as well as video from specialist channels, such as mediaweek.tv's series of media web chats.
Now free-to-access, users simply need to register to access all this great content and they are asked to tell us about their interests in marketing, their job responsibilities and working details.
This means Brand Republic can give them the information they need to know, about the sectors of the industry they work in, when they want and in the most appropriate format. It also means advertisers, through Brand Republic, have access to a large, and expanding, volume of active users, and can target them with appropriate messages, at the right time and in the right place.
Each of Haymarket's key marketing, media and PR titles has a home within Brand Republic and the site complements the print products they produce.
www.brandrepublic.com
Media Week
Media Week is the premier business magazine for the commercial media industry.
It reflects the incredibly fast-moving and diverse developments taking place across TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, outdoor, digital and agencies.
Media Week is regarded as the industry bible for media agencies and media owners, and is one of the most exciting modern business magazines.
www.brandrepublic.com/mediaweek
Campaign
Campaign is dedicated to celebrating creative excellence in the communications industry whilst putting creativity firmly in a business context.
A lively mix of news, analysis, features and comment, the magazine spans the gamut of advertising, media, direct, digital and marketing communications. Campaign prides itself on its industry-defining insight and the magazine has a strong editorial voice, backed up by comment and reviews from industry leaders.
And as the communications industry has become a truly global business, so Campaign's perspective has taken on an international slant.
Campaign, always a news-led magazine, is now first with the advertising news on line and our weekly magazine allows us the opportunity to explore this news in greater depth, bringing our unique insight and understating to bear on the weeks' key news stories.
www.brandrepublic.com/campaign
Marketing
Marketing brings its readers the biggest and freshest news in the industry and delves into the issues behind the stories.
It is firmly established as the leading news weekly for the marketing community, delivering insightful analysis and powerful comment pieces from professionals like the maverick Mark Ritson.
Marketing is also home to exclusive industry data, such as its unique Adwatch poll of which TV ads consumers recall, and its famous league tables of the biggest marketing services agencies and rankings of the biggest-spending advertisers and brands. There are also dedicated news sections for digital, media, branding and direct, plus features that explore the cutting-edge issues facing the sector.
Founded in 1931, Marketing has become the magazine that truly gives the big picture of what's going on in the marketing, media and advertising industries. It's no surprise that 43,742 marketing professionals have requested or paid for the weekly.
Marketing also gives its readers the largest number of marketing jobs in the UK.
www.brandrepublic.com/marketing
PR Week
PRWeek is the leading weekly magazine for public relations practitioners working in all areas of public life with a circulation of 16,000 in consultancies and leading in-house private and public sector PR and corporate communication departments across the UK.
It is the voice of the UK PR industry and the leading source of news, analysis and opinion on all aspects of public relations and corporate communications for PR practitioners working across PR sectors ranging from healthcare to public affairs, and City and corporate to the public and voluntary sectors.
www.prweek.com/uk
Sustainable Solutions Magazine
Sustainable Solutions is a monthly UK-based journal launched in October 2006, which is an essential resource for all UK and European companies who wish to meet their corporate social responsibilities by moving towards sustainable business methods. The implementation by businesses of sustainable technologies is becoming increasingly urgent. By 2010, 10% of electricity generated in the UK must come from renewable sources. Companies must think now about lessening their impact on the environment or end up paying a higher financial and social price in the future. Sustainable Solutions helps them do this by providing all the information they need to implement environmentally-friendly business solutions in the most sustainable and cost effective manner possible.
Each issue the journal contains topical and informed articles on renewable and sustainable technologies, systems and information. In addition, it ncludes product reviews, analysis of UK and European renewable legislation, information on financing and tax incentives for environmentally-responsible businesses, and articles on emerging technologies in energy, fuel, transport and materials.
No business concerned about its impact on the environment can afford to be without Sustainable Solutions.
www.sustainable-solutions.co.uk
Green Car Guide
Green-Car-Guide.com provides the very latest information about energy-efficient cars available in the UK and a wealth of resources to help confused car buyers understand what choices they have to become more eco-friendly. There is also latest news from manufacturers about new and forthcoming models, and also updates on green car developments worldwide.
The website features the Green-Car-Guide e-book, which has independent reviews of the most economical cars in ten different categories, featuring a total of 66 of the UK’s most energy-efficient cars. The site also has many free resources such as tips on how to save money by greener driving.
Green-Car-Guide.com is a project of Promote Environmental Communication, one of the UK’s leading communication consultancies specialising in environmental and sustainability issues.
www.green-car-guide.com
World Highways
For 15 years, World Highways has been the leading international journal read by senior highways professionals around the world. These are the people who negotiate with elected officials for sufficient budgets and the right policies to maintain and develop road networks. With public opinion and the political climate so focused on environmental issues, it is essential that they are properly informed about the importance of roads to the economy, and about sustainable ways of enabling personal mobility to be maintained and even improved. By reaching this audience through World Highways, the message from the Cars not Carbon initiative can be carried, via its readers, to these elected officials.
www.worldhighways.com
ITS International
ITS International magazine is the leading bi-monthly publication covering advanced technology for traffic management and urban mobility. One of the ITS industry’s principal objectives is environmental improvement, given the harm poisonous emissions cause as a result of vehicular congestion; therefore we regard this initiative as especially welcome and we are very pleased to support the Cars NOT Carbon competition. ITS International regularly reports on an array of measures being introduced, both in public and private sectors, such as low-carbon fuels, eco-driving and responsible low carbon business transport. For regular updates on this competition, and daily news announcements on all other ITS-related material, please visit our website.
www.itsinternational.com
green.TV
green.tv is the first broadband TV channel to cover environmental issues. green.tv is supported by the United Nations Environment (UNEP) and shows films from over 30 NGOs, government agencies and sympathetic companies as well as a global network of citizen journalists.
We're all about communicating issues of sustainability in a way which combines the emotive power of the television with the action potential of the internet.
www.green.tv
Corporate Citizenship Briefing
The longest running publication in the areas of corporate citizenship and community affairs, Corporate Citizenship Briefing provides invaluable news and analysis, expert commentary and in-depth profiles of companies' CSR programmes. Briefing's recently relaunched website gives users access to an archive stretching back to December 1991 of company profiles, interviews with key players and analysis from world-renowned experts. Find relevant CSR intelligence tailored to your needs by subscribing to CCB's management briefings: thoroughly researched analysis of CSR developments and trends pertinent to your organisation.
Corporate Citizenship Briefing is published by The Corporate Citizenship Company, a specialist research consultancy helping companies succeed as good citizens worldwide.
www.ccbriefing.co.uk
Blue Boomerang
Launched in June 2006, blueboomerang.com is the new online directory from Haymarket Business Media that brings together data from the existing marketing, print and professional directories to provide to key information across a wide range of industries.
blueboomerang.com draws on the strength of industry leading titles including; Campaign; Marketing; PR Week; Management Today; GP Magazine; Third Sector; Young People Now; Children Now; Regeneration and Renewal; The ENDS Report; Print Week; Packaging News and Secure Computing, amongst others, to provide comprehensive, up-to-date, accurate and relevant information.
Attracting over 90,000 unique users within the first six months, blueboomerang.com is continuing to grow, with in excess of 83,000 listings across more than 2100 categories.
www.blueboomerang.com
Institutional Partners
DMA
The Direct Marketing Association (UK) recognises the need to reduce waste and preserve natural resources worldwide and strives to lead by example to ensure that the industry minimises its impact on the environment.
As a result, it has made a commitment to Government to achieve its environmental aims. The DMA has already made significant progress to achieving these targets through environmental campaigns in association with leading environmental charities such as the Woodlands Trust and Planet Ark; through raising awareness of services available to consumers who do not wish to receive direct mail; through the promotion of more targeted data usage; and through initiatives to increase the amount of direct marketing being recycled.
www.dma.org.uk
BDI
BDI is a not for profit, yet commercially focused, membership organisation which provides an environment for collaborative innovation and IP trading in a secure, equitable and ethical manner.
In that environment it provides the opportunity for Originators to come together with Industry and Dealmakers, to use innovation to resolve business, social and environmental issues on a commercial basis.
It is a business model unique to BDI, who understand and respect the needs of all parties operating in the innovation space. It provides income generation opportunities for all members.
Members include strategically-led design and innovation consultants, university innovation teams, in-house design and innovation teams, entrepreneurs, vision-led SME's, technologists, dealmakers and design, business & science graduates.
The BDI mission is to foster collaboration between members and create an environment to deliver sustainable innovation.
www.britishdesign.co.uk
The ETA
Founded in 1990, the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) is Britain’s motoring organisation for environmentalists and the world’s only climate neutral breakdown company. The ETA's mission is to be the ethical alternative to other motoring organisations, by providing high quality services to everyone concerned about the impact of transport on the environment; in doing so, we generate funds for the ETA’s campaigns. The aim of the ETA is to raise awareness of the impact of excessive car use and help individuals and organisations to make positive changes in their travel habits.
The ETA also works on projects in third world countries. Our projects aim to neutralize your CO2 emissions. We only choose projects that are permanent and would not happen if we did not fund them. The ETA believes in freedom of movement through sensible use of transport. By joining the ETA you are lending your voice to a growing number of people who believe that we should be a seeking a sustainable transport system in Britain, as well as helping to generate funds for our campaigns and projects. By choosing the ETA you are supporting our cause.
www.eta.co.uk
UNEP
UNEP is the voice for the environment within the United Nations system. Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
UNEP is an advocate, educator, catalyst and facilitator, promoting the wise use of the global environment for sustainable development. Its work includes assessing global, regional and national environmental conditions and trends; developing international and national environmental instruments; strengthening institutions for the wise management of the environment; integrating economic development and environmental protection; facilitating the transfer of knowledge and technology for sustainable development; and encouraging new partnerships and mind-sets within civil society and the private sector.
UNEP has a long history of supporting creativity in finding sustainable solutions to environmental issues, from the policy level to grassroots action. UNEP’s Champions of the Earth honours leaders from all regions who are making a difference, the UNEP Sasakawa Prize supports creative solutions from individuals and organisations that can have a far-reaching effect, while UNEP’s Global 500 laureates continue their work around the world to promote innovation and partnership for a sustainable future.
www.unep.org
Centre for Sustainable Design
The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) was established in 1995 within the Faculty of Design at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, in the UK. CfSD has organised over 30 conferences and workshops, and undertaken a wide range of research and training projects on eco-product development and sustainable product design. It has achieved an international reputation for high quality, innovative, leading-edge work. CfSD is supported by an international advisory board.
www.cfsd.org.uk
Eden Project
Eden Project is an environmental educational charity that runs a successful visitor attraction in Cornwall, UK. Since opening in 2001, Eden has had nine million visitors, and has generated over £800m for the local economy. Eden aims to illuminate the relationship between plants, people and natural resources to the widest possible public audience, leading to sustainable future for all. The sexy green car show arose out of a frustration at the lack of information available to consumers about greener cars, and a realisation that helping consumers buy greener cars is likely an easier proposition than getting them to drive less.
www.edenproject.com
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