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Climate consultancy
Growing scientific evidence, a fast growing number of extreme weather events, Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth; the Clinton Climate Initiative; the joint letter of prime ministers Tony Blair and Jan Peter Balkenende to their European colleagues; the new Dutch government's radical CO2 targets; the G8 world leaders who put climate high on the agenda for their meeting in Germany... Climate change has become an integral part of the political and public debate. Regulations like the European Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) are being rolled out to ever more industry sectors, and companies like the Shell oil company are asking for more strict legal frameworks.
IMSA has specialist knowledge available and offers consultancy trajectories for products and services that are targeting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. We regard developments in this field as opportunities, and not only as risks. Together with a great number of companies we are working on innovative solutions for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and on ways to do so advantageously. In marketing and communication, and with important cost reductions.
 In 2007, together with Polar traveller Robert Swan, IMSA has conducted workshops in leadership and sustainability (climate) for corporate 'high potentials' during an expedition to the Antarctic from February17 till March 4 of that year. Read more about this expedition in the Antarctic weblog.
From March 3, 2008, Robert Swan and his team have been spending two weeks in the education station E-base on Antarctica. In that hostile climate, they had to fully rely on sustainable energy sources, i.e. the wind and the sun, to create for themselves a working and living environment. Watch their activities on ebase.2041.com
On March 13, the Inspire Antarctic Expedition 2008 began. Some 70 young professionals had to brave the Drake Passage to join Robert Swan in the Antarctic. Swan's aim was to let them experience both the beauty and the vulnerability of the continent and give them the skills and inspiration to integrate leadership for sustainable development in their jobs back home. The Dutch AkzoNobel company sent twelve people on this expedition. Follow the adventure on expedition.2041.com and missionantarctica.akzonobel.com
Presentation on climate change Presentation on the hole in the ozone layer Presentation on the ecology of Antarctica Translation of Antarctic diary in NRC Handelsblad newspaper, March 3, 2007
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