Two weeks ahead of the G7 Summit of world leaders in Cornwall, British Chambers of Commerce South West are this week staging their own conference focused on achieving a true Green/Blue global economy.
And Business West, one of the largest Chambers of Commerce in the UK, is supporting the virtual C7 meeting designed for business and industry to ask questions of world leaders and global policy.
This conference, sponsored by the University of Plymouth, is so important to our South West region hosting the G7 conference in June at Carbis Bay in Cornwall.
The seven Chambers of Commerce in the South West hope that this week’s meeting on Thursday will be a true scene setter for the real G7 by highlighting key environmental and business-linked issues.
Our environment and economy must nurture one another to promote sustainable growth and business in this region has a big part to play.
Phil Smith, managing director of Business West ,told me:
“This event will send a clear message to the G7 leaders on how it can be possible and what needs to change to make it happen.
“How we achieve a Blue/Green economy is of particular significance in the South West. It is a global issue being played out with pressing consequences for our peninsula”.
Registration details for the free meeting can be found at:
https://www.cornwallchamber.co.uk/the-bccsw-c7-conference
Business West’s head of climate change, Nina Skubula, will on one of the meeting’s discussion panels.
The C7 is a great idea to bring the influential voice of the Chambers of Commerce- like Business West in the region-to bear on our national environmental policy.
That Blue/Green policy is vital to our businesses here and I believe it really is-apart from Covid, of course-the No 1 government policy that we need to develop locally.
To that local agenda, Business West are developing a Business & Economy meeting for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire titled: “What price Net Zero for business?”
I feel we must start providing the tools and ideas for business to create their pathways to net carbon zero.
Dale Vince, boss of the Ecotricity Group in Stroud-very much the environmental guru for Britain’s business-has agreed to be one of the panellists on Wednesday June 23.
*Ian Mean is a board member GFirstLEP
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