ANDREW DAKERS

Environmental campaigner and social entrepreneur

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My footprint is
1.94 planets

At a local level, to help reduce my own - and Brentford's - ecological footprint, I'm working with friends, neighbours and community organisations on food, energy and transport issues. To tackle the food challenge in 2007 I took a bird's eye view of the problem with Sustainable Food in Hounslow. If you want to take action why not get an allotment, join Hounslow Community Farming Association or volunteer with Cultivate London? I am also encouraging developers ISIS and other stakeholders to progress the initial thinking on a Brentford Renewable Energy Strategy to the next stage and supporting work on the development of an Isleworth and Brentford cycling hub. All of this I believe could be supported by establishing a Brentford Business Improvement District.

As if that wasn't enough to distract me, I am also continuing to work on sustainability issues at a national and international level, focusing on: the tools needed to embed sustainability issues in the governance of more Pension funds; and the barriers that competition law presents to positive collaboration by businesses on sustainability issues.

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BIS consultation on 'The Future of Narrative Reporting' and reinstatement of the Operating and Financial Review (OFR)

At the Lib Dems Autumn conference in 2009 I called for correction of a party policy paper ('Are we being served?') that incorrectly stated the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) was still in place. The statutory OFR had been repealed in December 2005. It is little surprise the party policy-makers had got confused as to where things stood in UK corporate

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Posted by Andrew Dakers on August 10, 2010 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

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The case for a 'Responsible and sustainable economy minister'

In the past few days Fabian Pattberg and then Mallen Baker reflected on the absence of a CSR/CR minister within the new Coalition administration. A few weeks ago I considered the extent to which Corporate Responsibi
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Posted by Andrew Dakers on June 18, 2010 at 10:30pm

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Corporate Responsibility is the thread that runs through Coalition Agreement - but there’s more work to do...

Whilst I am of course delighted at news this week that Brentford appears to be leading the way nationally in corporate community investment, the financial crisis has thrown up real uncertainties over the past few years as to how embedded responsible leadership is in the business community, particularly the financial sector. As a candidate I experienced first hand ho… Continue

Posted by Andrew Dakers on May 21, 2010 at 2:30pm

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Lib Dem/ Con Coalition - Some reflections....

A number of people have written to me in the past few days expressing concerns about a Lib Dem/ Con coalition.



Some of you asked me to communicate on these concerns at the highest levels of the party, which I did. I share your anxieties. Political campaigning for the Lib Dems (often against the Conservatives) over the past decade has cost me personally many tens of thousands of pounds.



Some of you expressed concerns about Nick Clegg ha
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Posted by Andrew Dakers on May 12, 2010 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

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