We have posted some video clips from the Green Leaders event. Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business in the UK and the US. You can view Jeremy’s comments on Peak Oil and the process of “re-engineering capitalism” which is needed to avoid severe global macroeconomic impacts.

Our planet is not growing to take into account population and economic growth. The resources that the world contains are not increasing to satisfy our continual desire for expansion. It appears that our economic system is in conflict with our environmental system.

Jeremy Leggett – SolarCentury; and Scott McGregor – Camco will be sharing their personal views on how the politics of energy and climate change will create business opportunities over the coming 5 years, how companies – private and public – can be entrepreneurial in the sustainability space, and where in the world to expect low-carbon business leadership in 2010-2011.

Adair Turner, the chair of the UK’s Financial Services Authority, memorably expressed the belief that “market economies will not of themselves combine [enterprise] with environmental sustainability or with a reasonably just and good society.” Dramatically he declared that “capitalism needs to be saved from itself.”

Net Impact London Professional submitted a Freedom of Information request to UKFI. The response implies that the company did not consider the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) part of best institutional shareholding practice.

Do you think the “hand holding a growing seedling” is the worst visual cliché in sustainable business PR? If you want to join my Corporate Rejection of Anatomical Plant Pots campaign make a supportive comment on the site.

According to the Harvard Business Review, 2009, 50% of the Fortune 100 will have changed by end of the decade, with market turbulence at an all time high.