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Posted in: News 03.03.10 |
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NISP Programme Director, Peter Laybourn, presented a copy of the brochure to the Prime Minister at a reception held at Number 10 Downing Street for Low Carbon Innovation & Partnership in December 2009.
The publication charts NISP’s progress since becoming the world’s first national industrial symbiosis programme in 2005 and sets out the compelling argument that the business led approach used by NISP has the potential to fulfill a key role in the transition towards a low carbon sustainable economy.
Peter Laybourn said, “I am delighted that our predictions around the contribution that NISP can make in tackling climate change have come true. While the forecasts on the economic benefits a national industrial symbiosis programme can generate have proved to be conservative. Indeed, we have accomplished much greater impact for UK PLC than we could have imagined, including attracting significant sums of inward investment and creating and safeguarding thousands of jobs.”
Paul Ekins, Professor of Energy and Environment at the Energy Institute, University College London has held the voluntary position of NISP Chairman since 2006. He said, “In my experience NISP operates the most effective methodology that has yet been developed for increasing the resource productivity of industry.
"Over the last five years NISP has offered unrivalled value for money for the public investment it has received, delivering and over-delivering on the promise that industrial symbiosis would generate economic benefits to both private businesses and to the Treasury through increased tax revenues as well as important environmental improvements.”
Professor Roland Clift, President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and Member of the Science Advisory Council for the government, said, “NISP is recognised, not just within ISIE as the leading organisation promoting industrial symbiosis.
“Developing industrial symbiosis is an important part of the transition to a low carbon, sustainable industrial economy.”
Peter Laybourn concludes, “Five years ago we underestimated the economic and environmental benefits that would arise from NISP by a factor of three.
"I hope that we have once again underestimated the true impact that NISP can make. It represents a low cost, immediately available, replicable and scalable way to make a positive impact on the negative effects of climate change and has the potential to be a driving force to creating the Low Carbon Sustainable Economy.”
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