Opinion

Bill Harvey: Get up, stand up

With great sustainability efforts emerging in the industry, can we improve by 2023?

As I sat with a mug of foaming Bournvita, watching the Just Stop Oil protesters gluing themselves to the M25 on the news, a recent review of the latest online SEE summit on my lap, I thought about the excellent work ABDO are doing with regard to sustainability and environmental threat.

Exactly one year ago, as the last COP climate conference began, I wrote in this column; ‘the only discussion in the news relating to the ongoing environmental collapse is of how best to restrict environmental campaigners. It is as if many people have yet to realise that we are already past a point of no return and are well into a damage limitation phase.’ Looking up at the TV again, it appears that little has changed.

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