July 2016 was the hottest month recorded in the Middle East, so hot that civilians were blistering their fingers on door knobs. If temperatures continue to rise, up to half of its region may become unlivable by the end of this century, forcing millions of residents to migrate. These temperatures have burst global temperature records and NASA themselves have calculated that July 2016 was 1.5℉ warmer than the global averages from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Scottish energy giant, SSE have confirmed the construction of a new £2.6bn offshore wind farm. The 588 MW Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is set to be located in Outer Moray Firth and is expected to inject around £680m into the Scottish and UK economy through supply chain and employment opportunities during the construction phase. This is additional to a further £400m during the twenty five years of the wind farm’s operational life.
Exponential-e are a British networking and cloud provider. The company entirely own an extremely fast one hundred Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 VPLS Network that enables them to guarantee a high level of reliability, performance and resilience.
John Field is Director of Native-Hue Ltd, an energy management consultancy, and the new president of CIBSE. John studied physics at Cambridge University completing a BA Honours and MA. In 1981 John was involved, through design to commission, in a cutting edge project called the Ideal Home Solar House. He has been at the heart of UK energy management for 30 years and first started out in the nuclear power industry.
Phillipa Coan is an expert in workplace environmental behaviour change and a leading figure in applying business psychology to the area. Her PhD broadly looked at different strategies for changing employee behaviour to be more environmentally sustainable and she won both university and national awards. Her consultancy work has spanned a variety of sectors and industries including oil and gas, manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, academia and financial services. Phillipa is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School and a chartered member of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology.
