COGEN Europe launches a wider debate on planning for heat in Europe

The EU total thermal energy demand consumes 60% of the primary energy resources in the EU but its energy and climate strategy has virtually no measures on heat. At its upcoming Annual Conference in Brussels on 3-4 May 2012, COGEN Europe will launch a wider debate among key representatives of the cogeneration sector on how the heat planning under the new Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) can help swing the balance towards more integrated energy thinking.

A new report carried out by the research and consulting group WIK on the state of play of Next Generation Access (NGA) has found that the target set by Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes for 50% of households to use ultra-fast broadband by 2020 may be at risk because fibre networks have not been effectively opened to competition.

- Business executives’ personality traits are similar across Europe
- Polish executives are more keen on innovation than their European colleagues

A diverse workforce and the decisive allocation of business resources hold the key to reviving Europe’s spirit of enterprise, according to a major new survey by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), Forbes Insights and Ipsos Observer.

Mechanism receives backing from ACCA, UK Government and bodies representing over 1.2 million UK practitioners

The Social Mobility Toolkit for the Professions, the first common framework to measure the progress of social mobility within the professions, has been launched today on behalf of Professions for Good.