Debate: Climate negotiations and the impact on IWMS
The Copenhagen climate negotiations (COP15) beginning today must yield an ambitious, sweeping agreement to capitalize on pledges by countries to fight global warming, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said yesterday.
The largest and most important United Nations climate change conference in history with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
It seems that most nations have realized the eminent threat of global warming for the world’s population, and will do the utmost to achieve a global agreement. As a result all important world leaders will be attending the conference, and have already announced ambitious programs to reduce CO2 emissions.
This ambitious agreement will definitively have its’ impact on Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). The question of today’s debate therefore is:
How will the Climate negotiations impact IWMS?
Please use the comment feature below this post to give your opinion.
As most of us are IWMS insiders’ we all know that Real Estate and related services produce more than 40% of worldwide CO2 emission: low hanging fruit to enable all sustainability managers in finding energy-reduction opportunities. But what’s the next step ? I’m convinced that IWMS will contribute in much more. Like transforming operational information about occupancy, utilization, maintenance, behaviour, consumption etc. into ‘sustainability intelligence’. To identify the real opportunities, act on them, and prove with results. Copenhagen will definitely put the topic higher on more agenda’s, and I’m convinced that more organizations take these targets more serious then ever before. Not only from environmental perspective, but especialy from economical perspective: meet sustainable targets in combination with cost reductions in one go.
Jos Knops, Planon
Today is the final day of COP15. What do you think? Will there be an agreement?
Jos,
thank you for your comment. Indeed buildings account for almost 40% of the CO2 emissions. I think that IWMS is going to play a fundamental role in improving sustainability. Key driver to sustainable behavior, however still remains money. Combining bottom line improvement with sustainable improvement will prove to be the biggest challenge.
Steven