HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme (BEP), run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, continued its 10th anniversary celebration with a meeting of senior business leaders on the subject of ’‘Poverty, Climate Change and the Leadership Challenge’.
HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Programme (BEP), run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, continued its 10th anniversary celebration with a meeting of senior business leaders on the subject of ’‘Poverty, Climate Change and the Leadership Challenge’.
Over 250 alumni and guests attended the meeting, held on 10 February at Dorney Lake, Windsor. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles attended the dinner at Windsor Castle following the meeting. This was the couple’s first public appearance after announcing their engagement.
During the meeting, the Programme launched its Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, which is being formed in response to the Prime Minister’s commitment at the Anniversary Lecture in September 2004 to make climate change a priority during the UK Presidency of the G8.
The Group will be considering the role business can play in tackling the problems of climate change and will be working with the Prime Minister’s office to provide proposals on how the G8 nations can take clear and decisive action. Delegates at the event discussed the actions that were needed to enable business make a step change in its response to the challenges of climate change and poverty, and what business could do now to make this happen.
The meeting was introduced by the Director of the Programme for Industry, Polly Courtice, and included presentations by four individuals who offered different perspectives on the nature of the challenge: Dr Vandana Shiva, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, John Gage, Founder and Chief Researcher of Sun Microsystems, Rhodri Morgan, First Minister and Leader of Labour in the Welsh National Assembly and Lord John Browne, Group Chief Executive of BP.
The BEP is the largest and longest running executive learning programme on sustainable business in the world, and has introduced 1000 senior business leaders in over 30 countries to the concepts of sustainable development. The Prime Minister described the Programme as the premier international forum for exploring sustainable development in the context of business during his Anniversary lecture in September 2004.
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