On 4 November 2009, an audience of 250 business leaders and environmental experts met in Central London for a Question Time style debate, hosted by the Today Programme's John Humphrys and organised by WRAP.
This sell out event will be covered on this website over the following days and also includes:
- the launch of the UK's first ever research into how resource efficiency can help the UK meet its climate change targets;
- the launch of a YouGov survey which has found that FTSE 350 and other large companies are cutting costs by being resource efficient;
- a keynote address from The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Former Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and
- a business insight into the practicalities of resource efficiency from Marc Bolland, CEO of Morrisons.
If you were unable to attend, you can keep up-to-date on this website, or through signing up to our Stakeholder Briefing.
Watch the resource efficiency video here.
Panellists and speakers - click through to read more
- The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP – Former Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Dr Liz Goodwin – CEO, WRAP
- John Humphrys – Journalist and Broadcaster
- Nick Pollard – CEO, Bovis Lend Lease
- Marc Bolland - CEO, Morrisons
- David Palmer-Jones – CEO, SITA UK
- Will Day – Chair, Sustainable Development Commission
- Joanna Yarrow - Writer, broadcaster and consultant
"I was brought up in the years of austerity following World War Two when it was drummed into us that waste was morally wrong. In the years of affluence that followed we lost sight of that. It is time we learned the lesson all over again." - John Humphrys





