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Lynne Jones, MP for Birmingham, Selly Oak, visited Kings Norton based International Synergies Limited (ISL) this week to learn how the company is helping to drive the climate change agenda locally as well as at a national and global level too.

ISL manages a range of pioneering projects, such as the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, and the UK element of the European Energy Trophy. Each project provides a platform from which ISL can help to change the way governments and industries worldwide think about business and demonstrates ISL's instrumental role in creating business opportunities that contribute to all aspects of sustainability.

Lynne Jones, MP, said: “Tackling climate change is the most important national and international political issue of our time. NISP is making a significant difference in the UK by helping industry become more sustainable. There is huge potential to tackle climate change both at home and abroad through the application of industrial symbiosis and it's great to see a programme that was created in Birmingham having such an impact locally, nationally and globally.”

ISL's flagship project, NISP, is a free business opportunity programme that develops mutually profitable links between companies so that under-used resources such as energy, water and/or materials, are re-used, recycled or reprocessed by others. In the last two years, NISP's 8500 members have collectively saved more that £104 million in reduced disposal costs, and reduced the UK's carbon emissions by more than 2.1 million tonnes.

Peter Laybourn, Managing Director of ISL, said: “Industrial ecology is an emerging field which challenges industrial processes to replicate those of the natural ecosystem. ISL aims to bring about long-term culture change within the world business community by demonstrating how the principles of industrial ecology can be applied to business so that companies become more successful as a result.”

For more information about ISL contact Maggie Morrissey on 01543 423541/07968 997141, or email: maggie.morrissey@international-synergies.com.