COUNCIL and business leaders are holding a conference in Sheffield tomorrow aimed at finding ways to slash the city's greenhouse gases.
Petrol giant Shell UK and the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy are joining with Sheffield Council chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake to discuss the role of UK cities in tackling climate change.
The Government wants to cut carbon emissions
by as much as a third by 2020 and by at least 60 per cent by 2050.
The conference, at the Mercure St Paul's Hotel, will discuss what role Sheffield Council can have in helping meet the target.
It will also examine how it can work with business to turn the challenge into a business opportunity and will ask if businesses are doing enough to realise their share of the climate change market - thought to be worth £2.8 billion.
Speakers will include Sir Bob Kerslake, Shell UK chairman James Smith, and UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy chief executive David Green.
The conference comes after Sheffield announced plans to build the city's first wind farm on Westwood Country Park near High Green, which would be the first of three or four needed in the city over the next decade to allow Sheffield to meet its commitments to producing renewable energy.
Last year former American Vice-President Al Gore addressed a meeting on Climate Change in the city and helped launch the Sheffield Is My Planet campaign.
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