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Mit - SINFO March 2008 No.5 - Index

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Cover photo: Primoæ Trubar, www.trubar2008.si
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GREEN GUIdELINES
The 14 biggest retail European companies have made a
bold decision. They have committed, on their own initiative,
to follow green guidelines, similar to the ones that were
recently endorsed by the European Council. Until 2020
they will, at their own cost, reduce energy consumption at
their premises by 20%, and increase the share of renewable
sources. They will provide an exchange of experience and
good practices in the sphere of energy savings, and set up a
system of informing consumers about the energy efficiency
of products. This last is most interesting. In view of future
consumer patterns, the 'greenness' of a particular product
will become an increasingly appreciated added value, and
consequently also the area of developing new marketing
approaches. Other companies in the business chain will be
forced to follow; otherwise, consumers will go elsewhere.
The strong political message of the spring European Council,
conducted by the Slovenian Presidency, also points in this
direction. The European Union has embarked on the route
of sustainable development, and is becoming a world leader
in the sphere of energy and environment issues. In this issue,
Sinfo offers a double interview with the Ministers of the
Economy and of the Environment, who are also presidents
of the line Councils of Ministers, where the European energy
and environment policy will be unfolding until the end of the
Slovenian Presidency.
The President of the European Council said, prior to the
beginning of the summit meeting, that the EU needs to
understand the energy and environment commitments as a
challenge, not a cost. The 14 companies mentioned earlier
have already done that. Others will follow. After all, the media
magnate Robert Murdoch recently accompanied the first
'anniversary' of changing the direction of his empire towards
encouraging green production with the words: 'Acting on
this issue is simply great business'.
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